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Small-scale battery uptake in Australia exceeds 4.7 GWh capacity in six months Australian households, small businesses and community organisations have installed a record-setting 200,000 battery energy storage systems since the launch of the federal rebate in July with the $7.2 billion initiative now expected to deliver more than 2 million home batteries by 2030.

Jan 19, 2026

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Enphase on how distributed energy assets could boost data centers With data center loads looming and residential batteries evolving from providing backup to becoming grid assets, Krapels argues the industry must move from the old idea of "save with solar" to "get Enphase, get paid."

Jan 16, 2026

Markets

Investing in BESS in Europe: From market hurdles to C&I opportunities Energy services group Elevion, a subsidiary of Czech utility ČEZ, has several hundred million euros available for investment, with a significant share potentially earmarked for battery energy storage projects across Europe. Yet identifying the right opportunities remains anything but straightforward. ESS News spoke with Elevion CEO Jaroslav Macek to learn more.

Jan 13, 2026

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Home battery deployment soaring in Australia More than 1.2 GWh of new behind-the-meter energy storage capacity was installed across Australia in December 2025 as households and businesses sought to take advantage of the federal government’s revised $7.2 billion Cheaper Home Batteries Program.

Jan 07, 2026

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Germany sets energy storage capacity record in 2025 despite fewer new systems More than 2.2 million energy storage systems have now been installed in Germany, with around 526,000 new systems added in 2025 – around one quarter of the total fleet. Small-scale energy storage continues to dominate new additions, but the number of projects in the planning phase suggests large-scale storage could be set for significant growth.

Sandra Enkhardt

Jan 06, 2026

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The installer-customer mismatch on residential battery motivations While resilience remains a key driver for homeowners to adopt residential battery storage, it’s not as high on the priority list for most customers as many installers believe.

Dec 29, 2025

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NineDot Energy enrolls 300 MW of community energy storage in New York The New York Statewide Solar For All program aims to deliver $40 a month in bill savings via participating in distributed solar and energy storage programs across the state.

John Fitzgerald Weaver

Dec 18, 2025

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Manufacturing

India’s Pure partners with Charge Power to offer energy storage products in North America Charge Power and PURE are partnering to offer energy storage solutions in Canada and the U.S., with products in residential, commercial and grid scale applications.

May 21, 2025

Software

Germany’s Voltfang offers battery warranty independent of number of cycles The Aachen-based company has further developed its energy management system (EMS) under real-world conditions, to minimize the cyclic aging of its batteries.

Sandra Enkhardt

May 21, 2025

Products

Bluetti Apex 300 with 2.7 kWh battery pricing now available ahead of launch Bluetti has now launched the Apex 300 portable power station, bringing a new scalable power solutions for home backup, travel, and off-grid living.

May 19, 2025

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Demand for home solar energy storage rising in Switzerland Trade body Swissolar has called for a national energy storage strategy to support the rising popularity of home solar-plus-battery systems in the country.

Sandra Enkhardt

May 15, 2025

Sodium-ion batteries

Biwatt launches commercial sodium-ion energy storage product The manufacturer has unveiled a 155 kWh sodium-ion battery energy storage system for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers.

May 15, 2025

Flow batteries

Flow battery startup VFlowTEch banks $20.5M as ramp up continues The Singaporean company is working on long duration storage and received wide backing from a variety of investors.

May 14, 2025

Manufacturing

Tesvolt battery storage to benefit from “Made in Europe” funding bonus in Austria Tesvolt's new battery modules, each offering 6.25 kilowatt-hours of storage capacity and a scalable design, are set to receive Austria's "Made in Europe" funding bonus. This eligibility stems from their production in Wittenberg, Germany. The bonus will be introduced with the upcoming funding call in June.

Sandra Enkhardt

May 13, 2025

Policy

When will Europe harness the grid power of mobile batteries as stationary storage? Industry representatives are calling for countries like Italy to give as much prominence to the potential of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging as they do to utility scale batteries.

May 09, 2025

Grid-scale

Germany, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Spain to lead European battery market through 2029 Annual installations are expected to reach around 120 GWh by 2029, for a total of 400 GWh, according to a report by PV trade body SolarPower Europe.

Pilar Sanchez Molina

May 09, 2025

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