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Nozomi Energy reaches financial close and starts build on 196 MWh BESS in Japan 50 MW Nozu BESS reaches financial close with Aozora Bank backing.

5 hours ago

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NGEN commissions 170 MWh battery storage system in Austria Austrian energy storage company NGEN has brought an 85 MW/170 MWh battery system online in Austria, adding two-hour flexibility to the grid near the German border.

Sandra Enkhardt

6 hours ago

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Korkia expands into offering ‘powered land’ for data centers in Chile The Finnish company plans to combine access to land and grid connection capacity with new renewable generation, battery storage, and grid infrastructure. Korkia claims it is already moving forward with these types of projects in Chile, although it has not provided details on their locations, capacity, or investment.

23 hours ago

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UGL bags EPC job on APA’s Sybella solar and 104 MWh battery project in Australia The town of Mount Isa, a remote location in Australia, gets a second renewable installation from APA Group.

Sep 14, 2026

Supply chain

Zhero and Tesla Energy sign agreement for 3 GWh of BESS in Italy Tesla Energy will supply Megapack batteries for the projects, and Zhero is currently developing utility-scale storage projects totaling over 1.5 GW, the companies told pv magazine Italia.

Sergio Matalucci

Sep 10, 2026

Projects & Applications

How competitive is BESS for data centers, really? Volta Foundation’s July 2026 report ‘Where Batteries Can Win in Data Center Applications’ shows the two areas where battery energy storage systems (BESS) are winning, four where it is competing and two areas where it’s losing out to other technologies in the data center market.

Blathnaid O’Dea

Sep 10, 2026

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Why Fidra Energy is building the UK’s biggest BESS project One year on from reaching financial close on the 2.9 GWh Thorpe Marsh BESS, CEO Chris Elder tells ESS News why the developer has opted to build 1 GW+ battery energy storage projects, how Fidra Energy has secured National Wealth Fund backing, and where the company’s European expansion plans may take it first.

Sep 10, 2026

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Argentina launches 500 MW storage auction The Argentinean authorities plan to install the new storage capacity in critical nodes of the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, with an estimated investment of $500 million and an execution period of between 12 and 18 months.

Feb 18, 2025

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Cordelio Power expands with new 1 GWh procurement, new contracts Cordelio Power's storage portfolio continues to grow, including sourcing 1 GWh of batteries from Fluence for new storage projects.

Feb 18, 2025

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Enlight secures major battery storage projects in Israeli grid tender Enlight has secured a grid connection for 300 MW via two projects in Israel, which will add between 1,300 to 1,900 MWh of energy storage to the grid.

Feb 18, 2025

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BW ESS energizes 331 MWh battery in England’s South East The battery energy storage system (BESS), which holds a seven-year tolling agreement with Shell Energy Europe, will feature Sungrow's liquid-cooled PowerTitan 2.0 technology.

Feb 18, 2025

Revenue streams

Clean Horizon reports “crazy” opportunity in Polish BESS marketplace With its ancillary services market having only recently opened to battery energy storage systems (BESS), Poland presents a compelling business case for developers – finds advisory Clean Horizon. The Paris-based company published its updated Storage Index on Monday, which demonstrates the opportunity for the batteries in the eastern-European country, alongside a warning that attractive economics on the back of the provision of ancillary services may prove short lived.

Jonathan Gifford

Feb 18, 2025

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Lion Storage closes finance on 1.4 GWh merchant battery in Netherlands Tesla will provide 372 of its MegaPack 2 XL battery systems as well as engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services.

Feb 18, 2025

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It’s official: BYD to supply 12.5 GWh of battery storage in Saudi Arabia Following a report in January, BYD has now officially secured the 12.5 GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) supply deal

Feb 17, 2025

Auctions

Problems with Brazil’s planned battery auction A crippling tax burden; an inability to bank energy arbitrage income; and uncertainty about grid fees, network ancillary payments, and solar-plus-storage eligibility could all affect a procurement exercise planned for June.

Feb 17, 2025

Grid-scale

Record 13.6 GWh of battery energy storage capacity added in January Rho Motion noted big projects in Saudi Arabia and Hubei, China, and reported the only non-lithium-ion sites were three Chinese vanadium flow batteries.

Feb 17, 2025

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