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Australia · 26 Oct 2026

Grid batteries set the NEM spot price in 48% of September-quarter intervals, wholesale power averaged $63, and they beat gas in the evening peak

On 23 October 2026 AEMO released its September-quarter report. Grid batteries set the National Electricity Market spot price in 48% of dispatch intervals, up from 18% a year earlier. Wholesale power averaged $63/MWh, down 27% on the year. In the evening peak, batteries supplied 8.0% of generation and gas 5.1%. These are grid batteries. A fixed retail invoice is a different piece of paper.

  1. Ireland · 26 Oct 2026

    Irish business power averaged 24.1 euro cents a kilowatt-hour in the first half of 2026, the highest EU average in SEAI's table, and the battery count leaves out the box on site

    SEAI published Energy in Ireland 2026 on 22 October. From January to June 2026 the average business electricity price, before VAT, was 24.1 euro cents per kWh. A rank of 1 in that table means the highest price in the EU. At the end of 2025, grid batteries able to export at least 0.2 MW totalled 837.10 MW and 1,202.91 MWh. A battery kept for a site's own use is outside that count.

  2. United States · 26 Oct 2026

    Google and Voltus added 1,070 MW of flexible PJM capacity - a workplace battery can join the pool, and the contract prints no payment rate

    On 22 October 2026 Voltus and Google said they are adding 1,070 MW to a June agreement for 100 MW of flexible capacity in PJM. The release calls the plant 1 GW. Sites can answer a signal with a battery, a thermostat or a change in an industrial process. Bill savings and direct payments are named. No rate is printed.

  3. United States · 21 Oct 2026

    Dominion sketches 3.5 GW of grid batteries over 20 years - the April law tells that utility to seek 16,000 MW of shorter batteries and 4,000 MW of longer ones

    On 15 October 2026 Dominion filed a full plan in North Carolina and an interim update in Virginia. Energy-Storage.News says the preferred plan totals 3.5 GW of batteries, and about 50 MW of company-owned batteries are running. Chapter 694, approved 13 April 2026, tells the Phase II utility to petition for 16,000 MW of batteries under 10 hours by 2045, and 4,000 MW of batteries of 10 hours or more. The long-battery lines wait on a commission finding. A household bill path is printed. A factory invoice is not.

Also filed

  1. A Czech industrial group signed a 20-year contract for power from 27 MW of solar and a 10 MW battery - the developer owns the plant, and the price is blank

    Storage · 21 Oct 2026

  2. A Malaysian company buying green power across the grid pays 4 sen per kWh - the developer's 14 sen fee is a different line, fixed for 10 years

    Malaysia · 20 Oct 2026

  3. Ontario's draft lets a transmission battery sell energy, reserve and frequency control in the same hour - the pay formula is blank, and a factory feeder is out

    Canada · 20 Oct 2026

  4. A Geelong campus is running a 100 kWh lead-acid battery - the Sydney factory copy is still a plan, 600 mm from the wall

    Australia · 19 Oct 2026

  5. Ireland doubled a workplace loan pot to €1 billion - renewable energy is named, and the extra green discount is 0.25%

    Ireland · 19 Oct 2026

  6. A La Fox factory plans a 5 MWh battery on site - ComEd's storage rebate is $300 or $250 a kilowatt-hour, and this project has not been paid it

    United States · 18 Oct 2026

  7. Grid batteries set the NEM spot price in 36% of intervals in the June quarter, up from 17%, and the discharge price fell to $107

    Markets · 18 Oct 2026

  8. Croatia puts €30 million on the table for farm and food-plant solar and batteries - first in, first paid, from 9 November

    Croatia · 17 Oct 2026

  9. The grid couldn't give a Barcelona factory more power, so it bought a 3.87 MWh battery instead of waiting

    Storage · 17 Oct 2026

  10. A Galway medical-device plant built a 6 MWh battery and 4 MW of generators around its solar - and the installer behind it now sells through Energia

    Ireland · 16 Oct 2026

  11. Honda Malaysia put 5.6 MWp of solar and a 5.8 MWh battery on its factory - and it still covers only about a tenth of the power bill

    Malaysia · 16 Oct 2026

  12. A Woodstock car-parts factory put in a 3.6 MW battery for two hours of peak cut - financed by someone else

    Canada · 15 Oct 2026

  13. US buyers now pay about 20% more for Chinese storage cells before tariffs - freight flipped the map

    Markets · 15 Oct 2026

  14. A Riverwood factory warehouse put in a 200 kWh battery on a 50 kW inverter - four hours of push, and a A$15,000-a-year estimate

    Australia · 14 Oct 2026

  15. A Vermont chip factory added about 6 MW of solar and a 16 MW battery - and the battery is the part that pays

    United States · 14 Oct 2026

  16. Varaždin's technology park put 60 kW of solar on its roof so it would not lift tenants' rent

    Croatia · 14 Oct 2026

  17. A Johor precast concrete factory put 573 kW of solar and a 522 kWh battery on site - about two hours of battery at full push, built in roughly three months

    Malaysia · 13 Oct 2026

  18. France's biggest battery published its first report card - 145 full cycles in 125 days and 70.5 GWh fed back from a 240 MW / 480 MWh site

    Storage · 13 Oct 2026

  19. Alberta's biggest battery is online - Northland's Jurassic box is 80 MW / 160 MWh, two hours at full power, with a 15-year offtake covering all of it

    Canada · 12 Oct 2026

  20. European C&I battery shelves may get crowded into early 2027 - utility-scale prices look steadier

    Markets · 12 Oct 2026

  21. DENSO put 5.25 MWac of solar beside its Athens Tennessee plant - more than 10,000 modules, about 14% of the plant's yearly power, no battery named

    United States · 11 Oct 2026

  22. NSW cleared a 125 MW / 1,000 MWh eight-hour battery near Narrabri - Energy Vault owns it, Enervest delivers, LTESA runs 14 years

    Australia · 11 Oct 2026

  23. Batteries now beat gas peakers on cost in 43 markets. A battery still runs out after four hours.

    Markets · 10 Oct 2026

  24. Germany's latest innovation auction went entirely to solar-plus-storage - 480 MW at an average €0.0514 per kWh

    Markets · 10 Oct 2026

  25. JA put a 125 kW / 261 kWh solar-plus-battery cabinet on European pre-order - one box for panels, storage and 10 ms backup

    Storage · 10 Oct 2026

  26. Buying green power through CRESS just got a cheaper grid fee: 14 sen per kWh, down from 20 - and a RM34m solar build lands 19 days later

    Malaysia · 8 Oct 2026

  27. Four First Nations want to power an Ontario gold mine with an 8.5 MW solar farm - the permit takes longer than the build

    Canada · 8 Oct 2026

  28. Two Long Island batteries are switched off over a 2023 fire - New York regulators point at the fire suppressant, not the batteries

    United States · 8 Oct 2026

  29. Ausgrid will buy the solar a warehouse roof can't use - 16-year contracts, about 8c a kilowatt-hour expected, in two trial areas

    Australia · 7 Oct 2026

  30. Three Spanish factories now run 62.5 MWh of batteries beside 34 MWp of solar - the first three of ten in a 366 MWh job

    Storage · 7 Oct 2026

  31. A landlord with up to 240 offices, warehouses and clinics handed its roofs to an energy company - about 70 MW of solar and 300 MWh of batteries, with no capex for tenants

    Australia · 6 Oct 2026

  32. Ireland's business solar grant nearly doubles from today - 45% of eligible costs for nine months, up from about 23%

    Ireland · 6 Oct 2026

  33. Ireland puts money behind home batteries again from 6 October - and says businesses using the solar support can cut energy costs by up to €300,000 a year

    Ireland · 5 Oct 2026

  34. NSW's Waratah Super Battery hit final commercial ops - 850 MW on an old coal site, built to catch grid shocks in milliseconds

    Australia · 5 Oct 2026

  35. A US tech company booked Malaysian firm solar for its data centres - 680 MW of panels and a four-hour battery, on a twenty-one year term sheet

    Malaysia · 2 Oct 2026

  36. Queensland's wholesale power price fell 40% in a year - the state generator credits the battery build-out

    Australia · 2 Oct 2026

  37. FRV just switched on a 100 MW two-hour battery in southwest Victoria - its first big standalone box in Australia

    Australia · 1 Oct 2026

  38. A Victorian hybrid solar-plus-battery hub just hired its Stage 1 builder - Gamuda takes the Mortlake EPC

    Australia · 30 Sep 2026

  39. Mayo just cleared a revised plan for an 80 MW four-hour battery next to an SSE gas station - FID is still SSE's call

    Ireland · 30 Sep 2026

  40. A Moroccan phosphate mine switched on a five-hour battery next to its solar - lunchtime sun for the night shift on the plant

    Storage · 29 Sep 2026

  41. Spain will put a new capacity charge on power bills - and pay factories that can cut load when the grid is stressed

    Markets · 29 Sep 2026

  42. From Wednesday, a factory roof between 100 kW and 1 MW can use the same small-scale certificate paper as a house

    Australia · 28 Sep 2026

  43. Ireland will stop charging grid batteries like a factory when they fill up - from 1 October they pay the generator fee instead

    Ireland · 28 Sep 2026

  44. Amazon booked a four-hour Victorian battery without building it - Australia's first corporate storage toll outside the energy industry

    Australia · 25 Sep 2026

  45. Croatia's parliament passed power market changes that push business PPAs and strengthen self-producers

    Croatia · 25 Sep 2026

  46. Greece put €8.15 million toward workplace batteries next to solar. Most of the programme budget is still sitting unused.

    Storage · 24 Sep 2026

  47. US commercial solar got 5.6% dearer in a year, to $1.77 a watt, even as module prices fell

    United States · 24 Sep 2026

  48. Victoria's state utility bought into a long battery - and booked half its power for fifteen years for business customers

    Australia · 24 Sep 2026

  49. Arizona's big utility booked a four-hour battery for twenty years - and the banks closed $220 million behind it

    United States · 23 Sep 2026

  50. Croatia signed 47 business battery grants worth EUR 16.3 million, using only about 30% of the money on offer

    Croatia · 23 Sep 2026

  51. Malaysia publishes a fixed grid fee for corporate solar that can deliver for four hours

    Malaysia · 23 Sep 2026

  52. A German steel mill bought solar - and the right to run the batteries when the plant needs power

    Markets · 22 Sep 2026

  53. Google banked leftover solar in batteries so clean power showed up in the hours it actually used

    United States · 22 Sep 2026

  54. Australia switched on its first eight-hour grid battery. It fills up at noon and runs into the night.

    Australia · 21 Sep 2026

  55. Istria switched on its first public-building solar roof, 100 kW on Umag's health centre, with three more on the way

    Croatia · 21 Sep 2026

  56. US workplaces bought batteries in bulk last quarter. The install record was not only utilities.

    United States · 21 Sep 2026

  57. Canberra’s small-scale battery discount stops at 100 kWh. NSW’s workplace voucher goes to 30 MWh.

    Australia · 19 Sep 2026

  58. Ireland’s panel grant is not the payment for leftover noon.

    Ireland · 19 Sep 2026

  59. Malaysia closed new applications on the old one-for-one meter. The 2026 workplace path is ATAP.

    Malaysia · 19 Sep 2026

  60. The Australian battery discount is paid in traded paper. Tuesday’s price is not your contract.

    Markets · 19 Sep 2026

  61. Ireland will help pay for workplace solar panels. The battery is a separate bill.

    Ireland · 18 Sep 2026

  62. NSW will knock money off a workplace battery. The published cut is a range. Your quote is a different number.

    Australia · 18 Sep 2026

  63. Meta added a 144 MW Texas solar farm to its Apex deals, taking the green certificates while the grid gets the power

    United States · 17 Sep 2026

  64. A Croatian oil factory switched on 3.5 MW of solar and a 4.5 MW / 9 MWh battery - self-use first, surplus into the box

    Croatia · 16 Sep 2026

  65. If the lights are still on after sunset, a battery is how lunchtime sun works the night shift.

    Storage · 15 Sep 2026

  66. Malaysia pays a business a bulk rate for leftover lunchtime sun. That is not the rate on your bill.

    Malaysia · 15 Sep 2026

  67. The Malaysian home rebate tops out at RM3,000. It does not pay for a factory roof.

    Malaysia · 15 Sep 2026

  68. The US set final duties on solar cells from India, Indonesia and Laos, up to 249% combined for India

    United States · 14 Sep 2026

  69. US commercial solar installs rose 11% in the second quarter while home solar hit a five-year low

    United States · 10 Sep 2026

  70. Croatian power traded below zero at Sunday lunchtime, while neighbours' evening prices passed EUR 225

    Croatia · 6 Sep 2026

  71. Croatia's first home battery grant filled in about a day: 9,320 applications, 1,460 for batteries

    Croatia · 4 Sep 2026

  72. Illinois approved 600 MW of new four-hour batteries, but the PJM zone got only 80 MW of its 588 MW target

    United States · 3 Sep 2026

  73. A new US order on foreign grid equipment puts battery projects first in line for delays, BloombergNEF says

    United States · 1 Sep 2026

  74. Croatia lets standalone batteries get permits in industrial zones before local plans catch up

    Croatia · 28 Aug 2026

  75. The US widened its block on new foreign-made grid inverters to cover wired connections, with a carve-out for 45X makers

    United States · 24 Aug 2026

  76. New Jersey proposed paying home batteries for grid duty, and says business batteries at critical sites come next

    United States · 19 Aug 2026

  77. Nevada's main utility signed for 25 years of solar with a four-hour battery: 400 MW of panels, 1,600 MWh of storage

    United States · 18 Aug 2026

  78. Tesla filed plans for a $10.1 billion solar factory campus in Texas, with production from 2029

    United States · 12 Aug 2026

  79. Dubrovnik airport plans solar roofs over its car parks and a 3.3 MWh battery, with no power sold to the grid

    Croatia · 11 Aug 2026

  80. Vukovar's water company is building solar with a battery at its wastewater plant and expects over EUR 300,000 a year off power costs

    Croatia · 11 Aug 2026

  81. A 5.3-hour battery is going up next to Ohio's data centre cluster: 200 MW / 1.06 GWh, the biggest on the PJM grid

    United States · 7 Aug 2026

  82. From 4 December, imported solar modules in the US carry a $0.38 per watt price floor plus a 15% tariff

    United States · 7 Aug 2026

  83. Orsted switched on a 250 MW / 500 MWh battery beside a Texas solar farm, and runs it separately from the panels

    United States · 6 Aug 2026

  84. HEP confirmed its Sukosan solar plant comes with a battery of up to 200 MWh, and the estimate rose to EUR 65 million

    Croatia · 5 Aug 2026

  85. Texas paused its data centre hook-up queue: 474 GW of requests, about 90% of them data centres

    United States · 5 Aug 2026

  86. Costco took a Florida distribution centre off the grid with solar and batteries, and nobody said how big the system is

    United States · 28 Jul 2026

  87. Croatia sold 312,171 green power certificates in one day, at about EUR 1.12 to 1.46 each

    Croatia · 28 Jul 2026

  88. PJM wants new data centres that bring no power of their own to cut back first near a grid emergency

    United States · 28 Jul 2026

  89. Tesla signed to buy about 1 TWh a year from an Arizona solar farm with a four-hour battery

    United States · 28 Jul 2026

  90. Croatia's first energy community is live: 17 members share one fire station roof, no battery

    Croatia · 27 Jul 2026

  91. Croatian power traded below zero for 257 hours last year, and the regulator reads it as a case for batteries

    Croatia · 23 Jul 2026

  92. Solar and batteries were 91% of new US power capacity in the first quarter, and California's batteries met 36% of demand at one point in July

    United States · 23 Jul 2026

  93. A Karlovac pasta maker paired a new line with 160 kW of solar and reports over 15% off its power use in the trial

    Croatia · 22 Jul 2026

  94. Croatia's regulator adopted a written list of what blocks companies from using their own solar power

    Croatia · 21 Jul 2026

  95. Croatia's passenger railway will charge battery trains at a station with its own solar and storage

    Croatia · 16 Jul 2026

  96. Google booked the first two phases of America's largest solar-plus-storage build - and the box is part of the deal

    United States · 15 Jul 2026

  97. An Istrian label printer put solar on its roof: 60 MWh in the first three months, EU-backed, no battery

    Croatia · 10 Jul 2026

  98. Croatia connected 218 MW of new solar in six months and still imported a third of its June power

    Croatia · 10 Jul 2026

  99. Croatia's regulator says the battery rulebook follows a new power law this autumn, with better terms from early 2027

    Croatia · 8 Jul 2026

  100. The US solar tax credit's start-building deadline has passed, and late projects now race a December 2027 finish line

    United States · 8 Jul 2026

  101. INA finished 11 MW of solar inside its Rijeka refinery, and the power is for a hydrogen machine

    Croatia · 2 Jul 2026

  102. Croatia opened its first household battery grant. The workplace lesson sits next door in the business call.

    Croatia · 30 Jun 2026

  103. Croatia finally priced the grid hook-up. Hybrid solar-plus-battery sites now pay on the higher of import or export.

    Croatia · 25 Jun 2026

  104. A Medulin tourism site is building 5 MWp of solar and a 5 MW / 10 MWh battery on an old clay pit

    Croatia · 29 May 2026

  105. Croatia's distributor named three ways to connect a battery. Co-located storage still may not charge from the grid.

    Croatia · 22 Jan 2026