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‘They’re just chucking grenades’: Gore Street BESS fund chair urges rejection of Saba proposal, as Germany asset sale falls through

We hear from Angus Gordon Lennox, chair of the Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF), which faces a shareholder vote next week on its future.

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‘Not to the detriment of the market’: Eku Energy on Australia’s Capacity Investment Scheme

Eku Energy’s Elias Saba discusses why he believes the CIS has not fundamentally changed the company’s investment approach.

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‘At least six months ahead of go live’: OptiGrid on the ideal onboarding runway for battery storage systems

In this interview with ESN Premium, Sahand Karimi of OptiGrid discusses how BESS warranties and constraint management shape trading behaviour.

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PJM targets data centre demand with 6GW backstop auction; BESS expected to have competitive edge

PJM has proposed a major overhaul of how it procures power capacity in response to surging data centre demand that has driven auction prices up more than 1,000% in two years and threatens to add US$70 per month to average household electricity bills by 2028.

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Inertia in Germany is ‘first bankable long-term revenue stream,’ could boost battery storage IRR by 1-2pp

Inertia could provide a strong boost to BESS project returns in Germany, but operators are still waiting for the first prequalified inverters.

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‘It will work, and it’ll be in Australia’: EORA Energy on the future of vanadium flow batteries

October 1, 2026

James Costello of EORA Energy discusses the shift from supplying battery technology to developing full energy infrastructure projects.

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Availability: Why this BESS performance metric matters so much, and how to calculate it

September 30, 2026

Liam Critchley with an ESN Premium deep dive into availability, one of the most-discussed metrics in battery storage performance.

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PJM capacity reforms require urgent state action to protect ratepayers, says NRDC

September 29, 2026

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Claire Lang-Ree, clean energy advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), about PJM’s proposed capacity market reforms.

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‘FCAs convinced regulators to compromise on grid fees in Germany’: Eco Stor’s Georg Gallmetzer on cementing the industry’s future

September 24, 2026

We recently caught up with Georg Gallmetzer, managing director of German BESS platform Eco Stor, about the firm’s role in formulating flexible connection agreements (FCAs) and how this was intimately tied to the debate on grid fees.

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Compressed air energy storage (CAES): yet to deliver on promises, can A-CAES go one step further?

September 23, 2026

Compressed air energy storage (CAES) holds much promise for large-scale, LDES, but has struggled to get off the ground outside of China.

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21GWh BESS deployed globally in August: One-fifth in Saudi Arabia, European activity soars

September 22, 2026

Nearly 21GWh of grid-scale BESS came online globally last month, of which around a fifth was in Saudi Arabia while the majority was in China.

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UK: NESO looks to tackle BESS repetitive re-trading

September 22, 2026

What is repetitive re-trading (RTT) by BESS in the UK, and what is NESO looking to do about it?

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India flow battery player Delectrik talks 100MWh NTPC project award, targets gigawatt-hour order book

September 21, 2026

Vishal Mittal, founder and CEO of Delectrik makes the case for flow batteries to meet India’s long-duration needs in an exclusive ESN Premium interview.

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Contracted revenue key to California BESS financing as merchant market weakens, esVolta CEO explains

September 17, 2026

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Randolph Mann, CEO at developer esVolta at the 2026 US Battery Asset Management Summit in Garden Grove, California.

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‘A really hard problem’: Gridmatic CCO on the challenges of BESS revenue forecasting, the role of AI and load co-location

September 16, 2026

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with David Miller, CCO of optimiser Gridmatic, at the 2026 US Battery Asset Management Summit in Garden Grove, California.

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