Eastern Europe's Solar-Plus-Storage Buildout Enters Its Integration Phase
Eastern Europe's Solar-Plus-Storage Buildout Enters Its Integration Phase Eastern Europe's battery-storage market is beginning to look less like a collection of separate projects and more like an emerging regional infrastructure story. In Bulgaria, a 602MWh battery energy storage facility at Burgas ...
Morocco's First Large-Scale LFP BESS Starts Up at Benguerir Mining Site
Morocco's First Large-Scale LFP BESS Starts Up at Benguerir Mining Site Morocco has begun commissioning what is described as the country's first large-scale lithium iron phosphate battery energy storage system at OCP Green Energy's Benguerir mining site. The project has a power rating of 25MW and an ...
Nordic BESS Roundup: Hamburg, Sweden and Finland Advance Large-Scale Storage
A new group of large-scale battery energy storage system announcements shows storage expanding across northern Europe. The developments include a 100MW/400MWh project in Hamburg, a 70MW/260MWh deployment at a Swedish industrial energy park and a 125MW/300MWh project in Finland. Hamburg project ...
Switzerland's Largest BESS Comes Online as Axpo and energieUri Commission 58MW in Uri
Switzerland has a new benchmark for battery storage. Utility and power firms Axpo and energieUri have commissioned two large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects at the same industrial site in the Plattischachen area of Gurtnellen, Canton Uri — Axpo's installation rated at 50MW and ...
India's NTPC Tenders Sodium-Ion BESS Pilot as Demand Hits 28GWh
India's largest utility, NTPC, has opened a tender for a grid-connected sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery energy storage system — the state-owned power giant's latest move to diversify beyond lithium. NTPC, which operates roughly a quarter of India's grid-connected power plants, issued invitations for ...
Philippines' 500MW/1GWh SanMar BESS Gets PHP9 Billion as ACEN Backs Southeast Asia's Fastest-Growing Storage Market
The Philippines' battery storage buildout has found its next anchor project. ACEN Corp, the renewable energy platform of the Ayala Group, has lent PHP9 billion (roughly US$144 million) to subsidiaries within the group for solar and battery storage development — with PHP6 billion of that total ...
CATL, EVE Energy Lead Chinese Battery Cell Price Hikes as 2% Consumption Tax Takes Effect
China's battery energy storage industry is entering a fresh round of cell price increases, led by tier-1 manufacturers CATL and EVE Energy, with smaller producers quickly following suit — a shift driven by a new 2% consumption tax on batteries that took effect on 1 September 2026. CATL has raised ...
Equinor's East Point Starts 100MW/200MWh Citrus Flatts BESS in Texas
Equinor-owned developer East Point Energy has completed construction and started operations at the 100MW/200MWh Citrus Flatts battery energy storage system (BESS) in Harlingen, Texas — announced 3 September and the company's second operational project after the 10MW/20MWh Sunset Ridge facility, ...
China Storage H1 2026: Domestic Dip 18%, Overseas Orders +83%
At the 11th Western Energy Storage Forum, CNESA Chairman Chen Haisheng unveiled the industry's H1 2026 dataset: China commissioned 21.81GW/58.60GWh of new storage in H1 2026 — down 18% in power and 16% in energy terms year-on-year, the first-ever decline in domestic deployments. Cumulative power...
