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Hold-type ABS for battery storage hits Shanghai Exchange, pioneering new financing path Canadian Solar-linked deal marks a financing milestone for standalone energy storage, though issuance still faces cash-flow and liquidity tests.

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Grid-scale

TotalEnergies sells 50% stake in 1.6 GWh German battery portfolio to AllianzGI This is Allianz´s first direct equity investment in a portfolio of utility-scale battery storage projects.

14 hours ago

Finance

Enervis Battery Storage Index: Slight recovery in January, but still weak winter levels Independent assessment of historical and future achievable revenues for large-scale battery storage systems

Mirko Schlossarczyk, Jonas Anthonioz

Feb 27, 2026

Finance

Statkraft inks its largest BESS PPA deal in the Nordics Power purchase agreement (PPA) with OX2 covers 235 MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity across two projects in Finland. Both energy storage assets will be located alongside wind projects.

Feb 26, 2026

Finance

Grenergy BESS pipeline swells to 72 GWh, turns on investment taps Developer built 7 GWh of energy storage and 1 GW solar capacity in 2025, fiscal year results reveal. Tolling agreements and PPA activity support build out of solar and storage plants in Latin America and Europe.

Feb 25, 2026

Finance

Axpo, Advance Green Energy sign long-term hedging deal for Bulgarian BESS A long‑term hedging deal secures revenues for one of Bulgaria’s largest operational battery projects.

Feb 25, 2026

Projects & Applications

Trina Storage, Gore Street Capital to deliver 12 GWh of new BESS projects in Europe Trina Storage and Gore Street Capital are forming a new Europe-focused battery energy storage (BESS) fund. Gore Street expects the overall size of the fund and co-investment to rise to €1 billion by end of 2026.

Blathnaid O’Dea

Feb 24, 2026

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Energy storage corporate funding hits $17.6 billion in nine months of 2024 Corporate funding in the energy storage sector saw a 15% year-on-year increase in the first nine months of 2024, according to Mercom Capital Group. While venture capital funding has collapsed, debt and public market financing has skyrocketed making for the sector's second best performance in the last five years, lagging only the record-breaking 2022.

Oct 23, 2024

Finance

Germany’s Voltfang secures EUR 8 million in fresh cash The German battery manufacturer has successfully completed a Series A financing round. The funds will be used to expand its portfolio of second-life battery storage products.

Sandra Enkhardt

Oct 17, 2024

Grid-scale

Green Gravity’s long-duration storage solution attracts $6m in early-stage funding The gravity-based storage system, which repurposes former mine shafts, can store up to 10 kWh per 100 m of shaft depth at the deepest sites.

Oct 16, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries

Altris secures funding to grow Europe’s sodium-ion battery value chain While the excitement around sodium-ion battery technology has subsided with lithium-ion prices in free fall, some technology proponents are garnering fresh cash.

Oct 11, 2024

Industry

Key trends in battery energy storage in China China has been an undisputed leader in the battery energy storage system deployment by a far margin. The nation more than quadrupled its battery fleet last year, which helped it surpass its 2025 target of 30 GW of operational capacity two years early. ESS News sat down with Ming-Xing Duan, secretary of the Electrical Energy Storage Alliance (EESA), to discuss the latest market trends.

Oct 11, 2024

Industry

Form Energy raises $405 million for its multi-day iron-air batteries The US-based long duration energy storage startup has raised more than $1.2 billion to date, making it one of the top-funded players in the space.

Oct 10, 2024

Finance

Varta secures fresh cash to back its restructuring plans The EUR 60 million ($65.77 million) equity capital and EUR 30 million bridge loan will help the embattled battery maker's efforts to avert possible insolvency.

Oct 09, 2024

Distributed

GridBeyond calculates financial benefits of community batteries in Australia A 1 MW community-owned battery energy storage system could earn the operators up to $250,000 in revenue each year in Australia according to new analysis from Ireland-headquartered smart energy company GridBeyond.

Oct 09, 2024

Manufacturing

Northvolt subsidiary files for bankruptcy Following the decision to suspend the expansion of its Northvolt Ett gigafactory in Skellefteå, the subsidiary managing the expansion project has filed an application for bankruptcy at the District Court of Stockholm.

Oct 08, 2024

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