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Equinor’s US battery storage subsidiary, East Point Energy, brought its Citrus Flatts battery storage facility online on 3 September 2026 in Harlingen, Cameron County, Texas. The plant, rated at 100…
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Chile’s grid operator, the Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional (CEN), granted grid-connection authorization on 31 August 2026 for a 356 MW/2,136 MWh battery energy storage system to be built alongside Enel Green…
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Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, adopted Draft Law No. 14271 in its second reading and in full on 2 September 2026, according to the bill’s official record on the Rada’s…
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JLL advised Navacant, a Spanish renewable energy and storage developer, on the sale of a 126 MW battery storage portfolio in Valencia to BW ESS, the global storage platform owned…
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The Voice of Renewables presents our monthly global roundup of energy storage deals announced or closed in August 2026. Covering major PPAs and offtake agreements alongside financing, M&A, refinancings, bonds,…
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On April 25 this year, the price of electricity on Bulgaria’s day-ahead exchange fell to minus €100 per megawatt-hour. Generators were paying the grid to take their power. “Such a marvel has never happened before,” Bulgarian economist Vladislav Panev said at the time — and…
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GigaBattery Boxberg 400 will form part of LEAG’s planned GigawattFactory and provide large-scale flexibility and grid-support services in eastern Germany LEAG Clean Power has started construction of the GigaBattery Boxberg…
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Grid stability used to be a byproduct nobody had to design for. Spin enough steel — the rotating mass inside coal, gas, nuclear, and hydro turbines — and the grid…
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Britain’s renewable energy boom has a costly side effect: on windy, sunny days when the grid can’t absorb all the power being generated, operators pay wind and solar farms to…
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Battery energy storage systems are dispatched by optimisation engines that chase the best combination of arbitrage, frequency response, and capacity payments across a forecast horizon. Almost all of these engines…
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Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Battery energy storage is becoming core electricity infrastructure. Global battery demand exceeded 1.5 TWh in 2025, driven by electric vehicles and rapidly expanding stationary storage (IEA,…
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Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Until now the Contract for Difference has been treated as settled policy furniture — the mechanism that turned offshore wind from a subsidy-hungry curiosity into Europe’s…
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Europe’s energy transition is still being financed by a patchwork of public banks, institutional investors, corporate offtakers and project-level lenders — but the mix has shifted meaningfully since 2025. The…
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Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Only a few days ago a new piece of news made waves across the Romanian and CEE energy space: EBRD announced that it would provide up…
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Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. Germany’s battery storage market has moved rapidly from a relatively small development segment to a major source of new grid connection demand. Network operators received 9,710 applications…
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Italy has put in place one of its most significant new frameworks for renewable electricity investment, opening the way for up to 37.15 GW of additional renewable capacity under the definitive FER…
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Chile’s energy transition is entering a new phase. After years of rapid growth in renewable generation, the country is now building an increasingly large battery storage fleet that could exceed…
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Aura Power and Verdant Energy have merged to create one of the UK’s largest privately backed solar and battery storage independent power producers (IPPs), combining around 1GW of operational and…
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Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. This article is the second instalment of an eight-part series, “Poland’s Electrification Decade: The Race to Build a New Energy System,” examining the market forces, infrastructure challenges and investment…
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Romania’s battery storage market has moved beyond the development phase. Financing is flowing, projects are reaching financial close, and construction has started on a growing number of utility-scale assets. The…
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