The Inverterless Battery Arrives: Relectrify Installs First AC1 System in South Australia
No Inverter Required: The AC Battery Just Got Its First Real-World Installation ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA — August 21, 2026 — A battery that speaks AC directly. No separate inverter. No external power electronics cabinet. Just a battery that plugs into the grid like a machine. That is the promise of the ...
Digital Twins Arrive in Storage: Toshiba and MGA Thermal Deploy EtaPRO Analytics at 5MWh Plant
See Every Cell Before It Fails: Digital Twins Come to Energy Storage TOMAGO, AUSTRALIA — August 20, 2026 — A storage plant that tells operators how it will behave tomorrow — before a single cell degrades, before a thermal excursion starts, before an unplanned outage costs a month of revenue. That is ...
459 GWh by Year-End: Global Storage Additions to Shift a Third of New Solar to Non-Sunny Hours
459 GWh and the Solar Time-Shift: The Single Most Important Storage Stat of 2026 GLOBAL — August 18, 2026 — Here is the number that explains the entire 2026 storage market in one sentence: battery storage additions could reach 459 GWh this year — enough to shift more than a third of new solar ...
Australia's Storage Supercycle: BW ESS Buys 1,000 MWh as Origin's 1,770 MWh Battery Goes Live
Down Under, All At Once: Three Deals in One Week Confirm Australia's Storage Supercycle SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — August 17, 2026 — In a single week, Australia delivered a masterclass in storage market momentum: an acquisition, a commissioning, and a refinancing — each at or near record scale. Taken ...
Southeast Asia Builds: Citicore Breaks Ground on 53 MWh Solar-Plus-Storage in the Philippines
The ASEAN Storage Buildout: Why the Philippines Groundbreak Points to a Region-Wide Wave MANILA, PHILIPPINES — August 16, 2026 — Philippine developer Citicore broke ground this week on a 53 MWh solar-plus-storage site directly connected to the distribution network — pairing a 41 MWp solar PV plant ...
Global BESS Deployments Rise 27 Percent in H1 as US LCOS Climb on Chinese Cell Restrictions
Demand Up, Costs Up: The Two-Sided Story of the H1 2026 Storage Market GLOBAL — August 15, 2026 — Two data points from July's global deployment roundup frame the state of the storage market better than any single headline: deployment is soaring, and — in the United States at least — costs are ...
Three Proof Points: REPT Beats Full-Year in H1, California Hits 21 GW, Czechia Adds 83 Percent
When the Numbers Agree: Three Markets, Three Proof Points That Storage Demand Is Structural GLOBAL — August 14, 2026 — A manufacturer in China. A state government in California. A small Central European grid. On the surface, three unrelated parties. This week, all three published numbers that tell ...
The AI Storage Tsunami: Energy Vault Signs 1.25 GW Texas Deal as Orsted Launches AIDC-Tailored BESS
The New Demand Monster: How AI Data Centers Are Reshaping the Storage Market GLOBAL — August 13, 2026 — For two years, the storage industry has been watching one question: what happens when AI data centers start buying batteries at hyperscaler scale? This week, we got the answer. Two announcements ...
Storage to Sixfold by 2030: 42 Percent CAGR, 24 GW US Pipeline, and a 1.5 Billion Euro EU Loan Scheme
Sixfold by 2030: The Three Numbers That Define the Storage Decade GLOBAL — August 12, 2026 — Three numbers released in the past three weeks frame the next five years of energy storage more clearly than any single headline: Sixfold: global battery storage capacity will grow sixfold between 2025 and ...
