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Policymakers are increasingly recognizing the value of energy storage for building a greener, flexible, and reliable energy system. In a growing number of markets, energy policies are being introduced to support both deployment and local manufacturing.

Be it through procurement exercises or other market mechanisms, policymakers have intensified efforts to drive the development and deployment of all energy storage solutions.
However, in most markets, some barriers still exist.

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Mexico updates distributed generation rules to formally integrate energy storage The new provisions published by the country’s energy regulator are aimed to adjust the technical and administrative criteria for distributed generation, particularly with regard to energy storage, installed capacity limits, and interconnection procedures.
Luis Ini
17 hours ago
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Dominican Republic opens bids for renewables tender, mandates energy storage The nation's latest call for long-term power purchase agreements focuses on supplying the national grid with wind and solar projects, specifically mandating integrated battery storage systems to ensure grid resilience.
Luis Ini
18 hours ago
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Construction underway at Thai 60 MWh facility in direct supply deal, courtesy of Japanese funding Japan is helping an industrial giant decarbonize via solar and storage, in a cross-border subsidy scheme.
Tristan Rayner
Apr 13, 2026
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New German allowances give further boosts for plug-in PV and storage Germany’s revised VDE standard enables simplified registration of larger plug-in photovoltaic systems and storage, effectively removing previous capacity limits for self-installation and paving the way for high-capacity battery integration.
Tristan Rayner, Sandra Enkhardt
Apr 10, 2026
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AES scraps 320 MW California battery project amid fierce local opposition The developer officially withdrew its application for the Seguro storage facility in San Diego County following a three-year standoff with residents over fire safety and siting concerns.
Ryan Kennedy
Apr 10, 2026
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Brazil’s energy storage regulation delayed again Prolonged debates and delays around a regulatory framework in Brazil has caused limited investment in utility-scale battery energy storage in the country of 213 million people.
LĆ­via Neves
Apr 09, 2026
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Batteries reshape solar pricing in California market Aurora Energy Research has found that energy storage is raising the value of negatively priced solar electricity by up to $42/MWh in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) wholesale market.
John Fitzgerald Weaver
Apr 09, 2026

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Australian budget sees renewed calls for battery subsidy scheme, local manufacturing Industry representatives, a solar consumer group, and a senator are among the voices calling for support for batteries instead of continuing electricity bill support in the latest federal budget.
Ev Foley
Mar 26, 2025
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Polish utility plans to add 10 GWh of energy storage projects by 2035 Polish utility PGE Group is planning to add more than 80 energy storage facilities through to 2035 to the tune of PLN 18 billion ($4.7 billion). One of these will be the 981 MWh Zarnowiec battery energy storage project, which will be supplied with locally produced LG Energy Solution's grid-scale systems.
Marija Maisch
Mar 25, 2025
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Honduras awards 300 MWh battery storage project The National Electric Power Company (ENEE) has selected a Chinese-Honduran consortium to design, supply, install, test, and commission a grid-connected battery energy storage system (BESS) at the Amarateca substation in the department of Francisco MorazƔn.
Luis Ini
Mar 25, 2025
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German home battery sales collapse but larger systems on the rise German energy storage sales are shrinking, especially home systems, but commercial and industrial (C&I) and utility-scale numbers are rising and the Federal Association of Energy Storage Systems (BVES) wants faster permitting and better regulation.
Marian Willuhn
Mar 25, 2025
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Indian battery tender yields $2,800 monthly megawatt price The procurement exercise in Telangana, backed by central government viability gap funding (VGF), secured 225 MW/450 MWh of a hoped for 250 MW/500 MWh.
Uma Gupta
Mar 25, 2025
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China announces procurement of sodium-ion batteries with price ceiling at $150/kWh The innovative project located in a suburban district in the south of Shanghai will integrate five different energy storage technologies, including sodium-ion batteries. Its first phase will have a cumulative capacity of 40 MW/160 MWh.
Marija Maisch
Mar 24, 2025
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Sax Power doubles home battery production capacity in Germany The storage specialist has built a second assembly hall at its site near Ulm. Its new battery energy storage system (BESS), the 7.7 kWh Home Plus, will be built there.
Ralph Diermann
Mar 24, 2025
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Greece awards 189 MW of battery storage in third auction Greece’s latest auction has awarded subsidies to 188.9 MW of standalone, front-of-the-meter, utility-scale battery energy storage. The auction was the third and final edition of a battery storage subsidy program launched in 2023, with the country now turning its focus towards a new 4.7 GW unsibsidized BESS scheme.
Ilias Tsagas
Mar 24, 2025
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China’s Huadian announces winners in 6 GWh BESS tender with average bid at $65/kWh The procurement exercise has attracted 67 battery energy storage companies but only six have emerged as winners. The average bid stood at CNY 0.473/Wh ($65/kWh).
Marija Maisch
Mar 24, 2025
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