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UK residential battery supplier GivEnergy enters administration proceedings Early-stage administration process raises questions over warranties, installer exposure, and UK residential storage market confidence.

Apr 09, 2026

Grid-scale

The community warning signs that can make or break a battery project Early signals from misinformation to tense public meetings are helping developers identify community opposition before permitting begins.

Apr 09, 2026

Projects & Applications

Swiss startup’s subscription model offers lifetime guarantee for second-life batteries Switzerland startup Evolium Technologies' subscription-based business model offers residential battery owners a lifetime guarantee on second life batteries. The startup tests and remotely monitors each battery cell so it can alert customers when a cell is under-performing.

Blathnaid O’Dea

Apr 02, 2026

Distributed

Switzerland’s behind-the-meter storage still beats utility-scale at 1.5 GWh, new installations up 90% Swiss households, farms, and businesses have installed 400% more behind-the-meter storage over the past four years, according to Swissolar's Battery Monitor Switzerland 2026, a first comprehensive study on just how many storage units are in use.

Mar 27, 2026

Distributed

Sunrun installs nearly half of US residential storage in 2025 The company boasted over 70% attachment rates last quarter.

Mar 26, 2026

Revenue streams

Why Rhythm Energy turned to Origin’s Kinergy for its Texas VPP ambitions In a first for North America, the Texas retailer is entering home battery aggregation, using Origin's Kinergy platform that comes out of Australia, along with interoperability specialist Intertrust. Co-founder Matthew Tolliver explains the choices, why residential batteries are the starting point, and the still strong friction in scaling VPPs.

Mar 24, 2026

Grid-scale

How on-site batteries are fast-tracking data center grid connections Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are already regularly deployed in uninterruptible power supply (UPS) applications for data centers, but current market conditions are now driving new deployment needs and strategies. Blathnaid O’Dea hears from industry insiders about increasingly popular approaches like bring your own capacity (BYOC) and flexible grid connections (FGC), and why batteries can provide services beyond speed to power that gas turbines can’t.

Blathnaid O’Dea

Mar 19, 2026

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April 01 – August 31, 2026

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Finance

Loan for Guatemalan renewables, energy storage minigrids The minigrids, and individual solar-plus-storage systems, form part of a Rural Electrification Access Program planned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

May 05, 2025

Distributed

Sunrun bolsters California grid with 75,000 distributed batteries Customers with batteries can opt in to the CalReady virtual power plant (VPP) that is expected to dispatch electricity from 250 MW of residential systems during two-hour peak-grid-demand events.

May 05, 2025

Manufacturing

Elywhere, Evyon merge to combine second-life batteries with EV charging The Norwegian companies will exist under the Elywhere brand, supplying an all-in-one skid that provides fast-charging for electric vehicles (EVs)

May 05, 2025

Distributed

Panasonic exits solar and battery energy storage, ending decades-long journey The company has told installation partners it will no longer make products for residential solar and energy storage but will continue to offer warranty and installation support for existing and ongoing projects.

John Fitzgerald Weaver

May 02, 2025

Products

PowerPlus presents residential hybrid inverter, battery solution Australian battery designer and manufacturer PowerPlus Energy has unveiled a new all-in-one energy storage solution featuring a single-phase 7 kW inverter and a 13.4 KWh stackable battery.

Apr 30, 2025

Distributed

FlexHome Energy: Get a free home battery, let your utility use it, and save on energy costs A new product from German supplier FlexHome Energy would offer residents without a solar array, such as apartment dwellers, the chance to make electricity savings and strengthen the grid.

Sandra Enkhardt

Apr 29, 2025

Markets

History repeats as Iberian blackout demonstrates urgent need for battery storage The vast blackout that gripped the Iberian Peninsula on April 28 has echoes of a similar event in an Australian state in 2016. The solution in both cases appears to be the same.

Jonathan Gifford

Apr 29, 2025

R&D

US’ Georgia Tech, Stryten Energy tap lead battery innovation A new battery energy storage system (BESS) will combine academic research and real-world deployment to create a living laboratory for energy storage experimentation.

Apr 28, 2025

Products

Spain’s Cegasa unveils its first utility-scale battery The Spanish manufacturer will exhibit the E/Xpand HV battery at the upcoming Smarter E show in Munich next month. It will showcase racks for commercial and industrial (C&I) and large-scale systems of up to 5 MWh.

Pilar Sanchez Molina

Apr 24, 2025

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