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The global pipeline of energy storage projects is growing rapidly across a variety of market segments, including distributed, grid-scale, off-grid and second-life projects.

From increasing solar self-consumption, reducing consumption peaks, providing flexibility to the electricity system, to deferring costly investments in transmission and distribution infrastructure, the range of applications which energy storage devices can provide is constantly evolving.

To build a robust business case, however, most storage facilities need to provide several services.

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Statkraft, SSE complete first swap tied to battery storage revenue index Statkraft has agreed to secure a fixed revenue stream for part of SSE's UK battery storage portfolio through a swap tied to a new battery revenue benchmark.
Brian Publicover
2 hours ago
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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.
Tristan Rayner
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.
Luis Ini
23 hours ago
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Engie and Return extend flexibility agreement for storage in Germany to 400 MW The contracts are not concluded for individual battery storage sites, but rather for various facilities that are bundled in a Virtual Flexibility Portfolio. Engie and Return concluded the first agreement of this kind in February.
Sandra Enkhardt
Sep 14, 2026
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Inion Software launches VPP platform and white-label offer for batteries and renewable assets The Lithuanian developer has integrated 160 MW of distributed assets into the national balancing market, and is targeting broader expansion.
Tristan Rayner
Sep 14, 2026
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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.
Tristan Rayner
Sep 14, 2026

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1 GWh Chilean battery enters environmental assessment The $350 million project, in the Coquimbo region, would enter operation at the end of 2026, if permitted.
Luis Ini
Feb 27, 2025
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RatedPower study: Confidence in energy storage higher than for solar RatedPower's '2025 Global Renewable Trends Report' surveyed industry professionals and drew data from simulations of more than 45,000 solar projects drawn up on RatedPower's site planning software.
Pilar Sanchez Molina
Feb 26, 2025
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Meet Scale Energy, the startup building Europe’s largest decentralized battery energy storage network Scale Energy has secured a EUR 2 million equity investment to build what it claims will be Europe’s largest decentralized battery energy storage network. The Berlin-based startup’s CEO and co-founder Elias Aruna told ESS News its business case rests on deploying its system on grid connection sites belonging to industrial customers, without their investment, and then sharing the profits with the customer.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Feb 26, 2025
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Australian battery projects advance 1.8 GWh of storage capacity EnergyAustralia is planning a 350 MW/1.4 GWh project next to its Jeeralang gas-fired power station, in Victoria, and Acen is constructing a 200 MW/400 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) next to its New England solar farm, in New South Wales (NSW).
David Carroll
Feb 26, 2025
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2025 to be record year for U.S. big batteries, EIA says The statistical agency of the U.S. the Department of Energy expects a nearly 80% year-on-year increase in the utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) installation figures.
Marija Maisch
Feb 26, 2025
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Italy’s Terna expects 758 MW of energy storage, renewables in 2027 capacity market auction Electricity transmission system operator (TSO) Terna expects 224 MW of clean energy and storage sites in the northern region of its grid but only 22 MW in the southern, Calabria section of the network.
Massimiliano Tripodo
Feb 26, 2025
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Indian hydro company tenders 1.5 GWh of batteries The four-hour battery energy storage systems (BESS) to be tendered by hydro business Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) will be eligible for central government viability gap funding.
Uma Gupta
Feb 26, 2025
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Dubai’s AMEA Power to develop 1.5 GWh standalone BESS in Egypt The developer has announced capacity purchase agreements for the first standalone battery energy storage projects in the country.
Marija Maisch
Feb 25, 2025
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Malaysia commissions its first big BESS at coal-fired power plant site Sarawak Energy, commissioner of the 60 MW/82 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), is one of the biggest utilities serving Sarawak, a Malaysian territory on Borneo island.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Feb 25, 2025

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