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Brazil eyes gigawatt-scale energy storage growth in 2026
The Brazilian Association of Energy Storage Solutions (ABSAE) predicts that installations in Brazil’s commercial and industrial (C&I) segment should exceed 2 GWh in 2026. In addition, the group expects procurements of approximately 8 GWh in the auction scheduled for April, which will procure projects for delivery from 2028.
Jan 15, 2026
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India’s storage auction bids falling short of project economics, Mercom reports
Only around 50% of standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) projects auctioned between July and November 2025 demonstrate positive project economics under modeled assumptions, according to Mercom India Research’s newly released report.
How 2025 regulatory changes could impact Brazil’s 2026 battery energy storage auction
Long anticipated since 2024, Brazil's capacity reserve auction for battery energy storage systems (BESS) is drawing closer. Throughout 2025, auction rules and regulations were progressively developed, and toward the end of the year new regulatory guidelines for energy storage were introduced through Law 15,269.
Greece struggles to connect battery storage projects
Greece has run three auctions, allocating permits to develop 900 MW of standalone, front-of-the-meter battery storage. Yet, the country has failed to plug any project to the network, although it has installed about 300 MW of battery projects which are waiting to be electrified.
Brazil’s first battery-only auction in 2026 faces regulatory ambiguity, competing capacity needs
In an interview with pv magazine Brasil , Alexandre Leite, a partner in the energy area at Dias Carneiro Advogados, assesses the prospects for the 2GW LRCAP (Long-Term Energy Acquisition Program) for battery storage scheduled for April 2026, with regulatory issues and another auction in March set to possibley impact the battery-only auction.
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Batteries make strong contribution in Belgium’s latest capacity market auctions
As in last year’s auctions, battery storage accounted for nearly all of the new-build capacity selected in the three 2025 capacity market auctions. Across all procurements to date, 1.6 GW of new-build battery capacity has been awarded capacity payments by the winter of 2029-2030.
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Brazil eyes April 2026 for first battery storage auction
A 20-day public consultation is anticipated to open in November to define the guidelines for the auction, which aims to contract 2 GW of battery energy storage systems (BESS). The initiative could unlock around R$10 billion ($1.85 billion) in investments.
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Australia backs big batteries amid coal exit
Utility-scale batteries are meeting the challenge of guaranteeing network reliability during the clean energy transition with Australia having surpassed the United Kingdom to become the third-largest market for large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), behind China and the United States.
The O&M challenge facing Italy’s MACSE auction low bidders
Storage companies tell pv magazine Italia more capacity should be auctioned under the Mercato a termine degli stoccaggi (MACSE) program and emphasize the importance of reliable technology and contractors when it comes to the low operations and maintenance (O&M) costs needed to turn a profit from the battery sites.
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