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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

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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

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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

Products & Services

Fox ESS announces Power Q: New residential storage system line with 89.6% round-trip efficiency The new series features single- and three-phase systems with scalable LFP battery integration. Designed for rapid whole-house backup and VPP applications, the new product delivers up to 89.6 % round-trip efficiency, according to the manufacturer.

Emiliano Bellini

Mar 17, 2026

Products

Plug-in power in the US: Pii Energy unveils 1.2 kW / 2 kWh solar plus storage home system Plug-in power is starting to take flight in the US, with a new entrant showing a complete package for $2,400.

Mar 16, 2026

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1:00 – 5:00 pm, CEST | June 24, 2026

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April 01 – August 31, 2026

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Projects & Applications

Energy Vault inks deal to use batteries to store excess nuclear energy Under the new partnership, the Californian company will provide its B-Vault battery energy storage systems (BESS) to back NuSun mini reactors at data centers. It will also provide its VaultOS energy management system and even draw on its gravity energy storage R&D to help in the composition of the reactor containment structures.

Jan 16, 2025

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Researchers in Spain test energy-community and battery storage electricity market model The academics have proposed a distributed-asset network model including energy communities and battery energy storage systems (BESS) which would exclude expensive facilities from participation.

Pilar Sanchez Molina

Jan 15, 2025

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Greece launches C&I battery storage subsidy program With a budget of EUR 153.7 million ($157.7 million), the Storage Systems in Businesses program of the Ministry of Environment and Energy opened on Monday for submission of applications.

Jan 14, 2025

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Firefighter injured in solar-plus-storage explosion and fire in Spain The fire, which affected a photovoltaic installation in a container with batteries at the port of Gandia, started at 6:14 p.m. on Jan. 4, 2025.

Pilar Sanchez Molina

Jan 10, 2025

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Ontario rebate scheme to subsidize rooftop solar, heat pumps, battery storage The government of the Canadian province of Ontario is launching an energy rebate program later this month, offering up to 30% off the cost of residential rooftop solar panels, heat pumps, and battery storage for homes.

Jan 10, 2025

Roofs with rooftop solar installations

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New rules allow virtual power plants to compete in Australia’s energy market from 2027 The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has released a final determination to allow virtual power plants to compete directly with large-scale generators in the energy market, scheduled to begin in 2027.

Jan 09, 2025

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Spain’s Enerside builds solar-plus-storage sites in Chile The facilities have been described as solar arrays paired with four-hour-storage lithium batteries with a value of almost $57 million.

Pilar Sanchez Molina

Jan 08, 2025

Finance

Energy storage element to PV and solar thermal grants in Italy’s Friuli-Venezia Giulia The $2.5 million available from the regional government and the European Union's European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) can finance storage units twinned with PV and solar thermal generation at businesses.

Massimiliano Tripodo

Jan 07, 2025

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Average Italian family can save $18,170 over 20 years with home solar and battery The calculation, by Senec Italia, considers families consuming 3.6 MWh per year at an electricity price of €0.35 ($0.36)/kWh rising at a 2% rate of inflation.

Lara Morandotti

Dec 20, 2024

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