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Battery Buildout

2 days ago

784 MW of BESS operates in MISO while 49 GW queues. State mandates and utility IRPs target 7,730 MW by 2030. Five states, five risk profiles.

Explainers 6 days ago

Modo Energy Presents: Why building renewables in New York is so hard

Research and Analysis 6 days ago

2026 Capex: How much does it cost to build a battery in Australia?

Research and Analysis 17 Feb 2026

New York's 2050 electricity demand forecast: three drivers reshaping the grid

Market Outlook 16 Feb 2026

CAISO Forecast release: Californian power prices in 2050

Financing Updates 12 Feb 2026

U.S. BESS Financing Report - Q4 2025

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Financing Updates

12 Feb 2026

12 deals, 2.7 GW, $1.9 billion: Q4 2025 saw every US BESS transaction exceed 100 MW. European banks dominate lending, and capital diversifies beyond ERCOT into ISO-NE.

ME BESS ERCOT January 2026: Winter Storm Fern comes to Texas

Revenue Benchmark

10 Feb 2026

Winter Storm Fern brought the highest TB spreads seen in ERCOT since January 2025. How will that affect battery revenues?

PJM in January 2026: Winter Storm Fern drove record battery opportunity

Revenue Benchmark

06 Feb 2026

Winter Storm Fern drove battery revenues in PJM during January 2026. A 1 MW, 4-hour battery could have earned $35/kW-month. Day-Ahead spreads hit $181/MW/day while Regulation prices spiked above $1,700/MW/h during the late-month polar vortex.

NYISO in January 2026: Upstate Reference Prices surged after Winter Storm Fern

Revenue Benchmark

06 Feb 2026

Winter Storm Fern lifted upstate NYISO Reference Prices by 74-90% year-over-year, narrowing the gap with downstate zones.

ME BESS ERCOT December 2025: The First Month of RTC+B

Revenue Benchmark

06 Feb 2026

Real-Time AS prices cleared below Day-Ahead prices 93% of the time during the first month of RTC+B, creating a DART spread batteries can exploit.

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Billions raised, early stages on delivery: can alternative LDES close the gap?

Market Outlook

Lithium-ion retains a structural cost advantage for durations up to 8-10 hours, but beyond 12 hours, some alternative technologies (liquid-air, CO₂ batteries, iron-air) show competitive theoretical levelised costs. The 2026 tenders will determine which can transition from demonstration to commercial deployment, as the window for proving viability narrows with lithium-ion prices falling 10-15% annually.

05 Feb 2026

Alternative LDES technologies: key players and how to contact them

Research and Analysis

This companion directory to our main LDES research profiles key technology providers across vanadium flow, zinc hybrid, iron-air, liquid-air, compressed air, thermal and CO₂ storage. Each entry includes direct company contacts and perspectives on commercial readiness, cost trajectories and target applications as the sector approaches critical 2026 procurement windows.

05 Feb 2026

Battery Buildout

Modo Energy projects 2-5 GW of BESS by 2030, up from 784 MW today. This captures just 4-10% of MISO's 49 GW queue.

04 Feb 2026

ERCOT: BESS revenues are down, but what could restore them?

Market Outlook

The question isn't whether upside for batteries in ERCOT exists over fifteen-twenty years - it's bridging a two-four year gap.

04 Feb 2026

Industry news

The Energyst 2 hours ago

Fleete opens 16-bay commercial vehicle charging hub at Tilbury

Energy Storage News 3 hours ago

Energy Storage Summit 2026 Day Two: LDES, co-location and revenue certainty among the big topics

Current News 3 hours ago

Acciona bags deal for 4MW EV charging hub in Madrid

Solar Power Portal 4 hours ago

French utility Engie buys UK Power Networks in £10.5 billion deal

Energy Storage News 4 hours ago

Trina Storage to invest in Gore Street’s EU BESS fund, 12GWh targeted

Current News 5 hours ago

US law firm probes Stellantis over US$25.9 billion EV write-down disclosure

Energy Storage News 5 hours ago

US DOE closes US$26.5 billion loan package to utility Southern Company for 16GW of capacity, including BESS

Energy Storage News 5 hours ago

Recurrent Energy sells 200MWh Texas BESS to Hunt Energy Network

The Energyst 6 hours ago

Levelise launches open calculator tool to accurately model UK solar and battery returns

Transmission: The Podcast

Podcast: Managing BESS market risk in Germany with Martin Daronnat

Podcasts

01 Aug 2025

Martin Daronnat (Engie) joins Quentin to explore the market mechanisms, strategies, and contract structures driving Germany’s battery storage boom.

Podcast: Behind the scenes of BESS integration with Zach Vosburg

Podcasts

13 May 2025

Behind every battery system that comes online is a hidden world of engineering, integration, and performance management. Zach Vosburg shares the details.

Podcast: Insuring battery energy storage with Michael Bogdan

Podcasts

09 May 2025

From fire events like Moss Landing to the evolving role of insurance across development, the way insurers are underwriting storage is changing fast.

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