Mexico's first CFE mixed-investment tender closed on 5 June 2026, awarding 37 projects totalling 7,411 MW - 114% of target - with 1,850 MW of co-located BESS required under the scheme.
14 Oct 2026
StorageFoss & Company closed a $58 million partnership flip on 7 October 2026 to finance GridStor's 150 MW / 300 MWh Gunnar Reliability Project in Hidalgo County, Texas, due in service this month.
14 Oct 2026
StorageA DLA Piper report on Japan, Singapore and Australia finds merchant BESS appetite split sharply by market structure, with regulatory certainty and grid access driving the divide.
14 Oct 2026
StorageConstruction has formally begun on Marinus Link's 750 MW HVDC interconnector after a sod-turning ceremony at Heybridge, Tasmania on 2 October 2026, backed by AU$5 billion in public finance.
13 Oct 2026
StorageWärtsilä closed its energy storage joint venture with Germany's RCT Solutions on 1 October 2026, creating Valo - a utility-scale BESS integrator with 20 GWh across 130 projects.
13 Oct 2026
StorageChina's MIIT halted greenfield ESS battery factory approvals in May 2026, with ~100 new projects already announced carrying 2,608 GWh of planned capacity - nearly 1.5 times last year's total output.
13 Oct 2026OptiGrid CEO Sahand Karimi says battery storage optimisers need at least six months before go-live to configure SCADA integration and trading strategy, and has disclosed a second product to manage portfolio-level revenue conflicts.
9 Oct 2026Panellists at the Battery Asset Management Summit Australia 2026 said the venture-capital-style returns that once rewarded ready-to-build BESS projects have disappeared as NEM price spreads fell 85% in a year.
10 Sept 2026
StorageA BW ESS asset manager and an Energy Safe Victoria regulator told the Battery Asset Management Summit Australia 2026 that copper theft and unsecured spare parts are a growing risk at grid-scale BESS sites.
7 Sept 2026
StorageSeoul-based DeltaX will invest $141 million in a 100,000 sq ft BESS assembly facility at Piedmont Regional Industrial Park in Monroe, Georgia, creating roughly 250 jobs.
21 Aug 2026
StorageHuawei Digital Power unveiled an 800 A liquid-cooled DC charging dispenser and a DC ESS+Charger solution at Power2Drive Europe 2026 in Munich, requiring as little as 50 kW of grid connection.
19 Aug 2026
StorageESS Tech reported a $15.6M Q2 2026 net loss and near-zero revenue on 11 August, disclosed going concern doubt, and signed a non-binding $515M business combination LOI alongside its sodium-ion pivot.
16 Aug 2026
StorageItalian developer Limes Renewable Energy has reached ready-to-build status on its 200 MW / 1 GWh Huañil BESS in Salamanca, Coquimbo - its first RTB project outside Italy.
16 Aug 2026