The Energy Storage Awards Shortlist
This year, our expert panel – made up of leaders across energy storage, renewables, and clean-tech innovation – reviewed a record number of entries. After careful assessment, the hundreds of nominations have been distilled down to the very best: the 2026 Energy Storage Awards shortlist.
Below you'll find a breakdown by sub-category, the winners will be revealed at the Awards ceremony on Thursday 19 November 2026 at the Hilton London Metropole!
Project Development Awards
Best Overall European Energy Storage Project
SMA Solar Technology - Battery Storage Park Foehren
Ecorus - BESS Heldair II
ContourGlobal - Maritsa 202 MW / 500 MWh stand-alone battery energy storage system
OX2 - Fageråsen: Integrating BESS to unlock renewable energy in a challenging market
Corsica Sole, Evecon & Mirova - Baltic Storage Platform - Hertz 1 & Hertz 2
OX2 - Zapdos: €430m financing sets new benchmark for wind + BESS in Europe
Socomec & KALS - A first-of-its-kind renewable energy project for Alpine Europe
NHOA Energy - Balearic Islands BESS: Southern Europe’s Largest Storage-as-Transmission Project
Solarpro - Szihalom Hybrid Renewable Energy Project
LEAG Clean Power & Fluence - GigaBattery Jänschwalde 1000
Grid-Scale Co-Located or Hybrid Energy Storage Project of the Year
Energy Vault (NRGV) & Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) - Calistoga Resiliency Center: The World’s First Ultra-Long-Duration Battery + Hydrogen Hybrid Microgrid
EDF - Co-located Solar & Battery Storage: From Theory to Real-World Delivery
OX2 - From coal to clean energy: A new hybrid renewable energy asset for the Hunter region, NSW, Australia
Monsson - Gălbiori–Mireasa: Three Technologies, One Connection, Zero Extra Grid Capacity
LEAG Clean Power & Fluence - GridBattery Heinersbrück
Clearway Energy Group - Honeycomb Energy Center
Solarpro - St. George Hybrid Renewable Energy Project
US Solar - USS Beard Solar LLC
ContourGlobal - Víctor Jara: 231 MWp Solar + 1.3 GWh BESS Hybrid Project in Chile
OX2 - Zapdos: €430m financing sets new benchmark for wind + BESS in Europe
Grid-Scale Standalone Energy Storage Project of the Year
H&MV Engineering & Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners – Coalburn – Delivering Europe's largest transmission-connected BESS
Corsica Sole, Evecon & Mirova - Baltic Storage Platform - Hertz 1 & Hertz 2
LEAG Clean Power & Fluence - GigaBattery Jänschwalde 1000
HyperStrong - Burhantu 400MW/2400MWh Standalone Energy Storage Project
Zenobē - Kilmarnock South Battery Energy Storage System
ContourGlobal - Maritsa 202 MW / 500 MWh stand-alone battery energy storage system
Quinbrook - Supernode Battery Energy Storage Project
Fidra Energy - Thorpe Marsh Green Energy Hub
Distributed Energy Storage Project of the Year
ZLC Energy - RJAH NHS Solar and Storage: A Replicable Model for Hospital Decarbonisation
Wattstor - (and Icknield Biogas) Breaking the grid ceiling by doubling on-site generation at lower cost
Hoenergy Power Technology Co - 125 kW / 261 kWh C&I Energy Storage Project for a Polish EV Charging Hub
SolarEdge - Nexis
EDF - Turning “Behind the Meter” storage into a real scalable proposition
Caban-Digicel - Powering Resilient Connectivity: A Caban–Digicel Initiative
Product of the Year
Balance of Plant / Hardware Product of the Year
IPS - Bi-directional BESS inverter with unique synthetic inertia and reactive power compensation features
Ateios Systems - RaiCore High-Performance PFAS-Free Battery Electrodes
Envision - GEN 8 Skid-10100: 10MW AC Medium-Voltage Power Conversion Skid
Shenzhen Sinexcel Electric Co. - StellaON 1250K/1575K
BESS Solution of the Year
BLUETTI Balco Series – Integrated Balcony Solar Energy Storage System
Fluence - Smartstack™ 10 MWh
XCharge North America - GridLink
HyperStrong - HyperBlock M, Modular Utility BESS Solution
InstaVolt
RES - RESolve
Zendure - SolarFlow 4000 Mix Pro
Sungrow - Utility-Scale BESS PowerTitan 3.0
Sonnen & Rocky Mountain Power - Wattsmart Battery VPP Program
Wright Energy Storage Technologies - WEST in Antarctica
Software Product of the Year
Hypercube - CAIRN Platform
Kraken Generation Flexibility - Utility-grade software for grid-scale storage from trading floor to settlement
Firstco and Zenobe
GridBeyond
Arenko - Nimbus – enterprise platform for energy storage and renewables trading and asset management
RES - RESolve
Socomec - SoLive Pro BESS with Battery Data Analytics
TWAICE - Unified Fleet Access Layer
Sonnen & Rocky Mountain Power - Wattsmart Battery VPP Program
Voltmasters - EMS
Safety Product of the Year
ZincFive - BC 2 AI UPS Battery Cabinet
Wright Energy Storage Technologies - Fire Safety at Charleston Airport
Jackery Technology - Jackery SolarVault 3 Series
PowerUp - Thermal anomaly detection innovation
WG Energy - E³ Matrix Series 257 kWh cabinet-type AC grid-connected system
LivNSense GreenOps - VICAS™ AI: Intelligent Vision & Predictive Safety Monitoring for Industrial & Energy Storage Operations
Envision - Gen8 - 4.X MWh Long Duration Energy Storage System
DeterTech - Predict. Deter. Detect.
Sungrow - PowerTitan 2.0
Dukosi - Cell Monitoring System (DKCMS®) for Safer Energy Storage Systems
Innovation & Technology Awards
Breakthrough R&D or Innovation of the Year
Asahi Kasei - Acetolyte™: Unlocking Acetonitrile – A Breakthrough for the Future of Energy Storage
ACCURE and Gore Street Capital - Corrected state of energy from analysis into live ERCOT dispatch
Zenobē - Hot Commissioning with Mobile Battery Energy Storage – Kilmarnock South
ON.Energy - AI UPS
Ateios Systems - RaiCure Advanced Battery Electrode Manufacturing Platform
Storlytics - BESS Design Software
Nephila Climate - Transforming battery merchant revenue risk into an investable opportunity for institutional capital
Fluence, Siemens, NVIDIA, and nVent - Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory Reference Design Featuring Fluence Smartstack™
WG Energy - Helios Series Solid State Transformer
Pexapark - BESS Price Intelligence
Newcomer or Start-Up of the Year
nTeaser - Europe's Renewable Energy M&A Platform
Phaseshift - The Agentic Operations Layer for Battery Energy Storage
Decade Energy - Developing 1 GW of distributed battery storage infrastructure to power the future of transport electrification.
Bess.Courses
The BESS Academy – Building Professional Capability for Utility-Scale Energy Storage
Ateios Systems
Cartesian Energy
Storlytics Energy Storage
Eclipse - a French infra-tech company
Electrohold Trade & TMHE Strategic Cooperation - 4.4 GWh BESS Portfolio under Commercialization in a Year
Trading and Optimisation Team of the Year
Habitat Energy
Field - Gaia
Eclipse - a French infra-tech company
Electrohold Trade & TMHE Strategic Cooperation - 4.4 GWh BESS Portfolio under Commercialization in a Year
EDF Business & Wholesale Trading & Optimisation Team
Capalo AI
Spearmint Energy
Individual & Leadership Awards
Diversity and Inclusion Award
Anieke Kranenburg
GridBeyond
Copec Flux
Field - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Field
Powering Asia
Outstanding Contribution to Energy Storage
Aaroh Kharaya, Primergy
Guy Nicholson, Statkraft
Caroline Clapham, Eversheds Sutherland
Madjid Ghaffari-Dizadj, Wiran Kraftwerke GmbH
Xiaoming Li, Zenobē
Andrew Waranch, Spearmint Energy
Rising Star of the Year
Carmen Izquierdo, nTeaser
Miguel Galatas, nTeaser
Nitesh Choudhary, Commonwealth Fellow/PMRF Scholar
Anieke Kranenburg, University of Twente
Olly Stopford, ion Ventures
Jack Whitehouse, ion Ventures
Philipp Eisele, Flower
Ben Levy, Zenobē
Jinkai Chan, JLL
Mahika Sri Krishna, LDES Council
Darya Rüwald, ACCURE Battery Intelligence
Lauren Wong, ON.energy
Financial & Commercial Awards
Debt/Equity Deal of the Year
AIP Management & BW ESS - The Ardenham 2.6GWh UK BESS portfolio
Arevon, CIBC & Goldman Sachs Alternatives - Nighthawk Energy Storage: A New Financing Model for Merchant Battery Storage
OX2 - Zapdos: €430m financing sets new benchmark for wind + BESS in Europe
Zenobē - Financing of Zenobē’s Coalburn 200MW/800MWh BESS, the UK’s first four-hour duration battery storage project connected to the transmission network to reach financial close
esVolta - Upsized Corporate Credit Facility to Support Expansion of Energy Storage Portfolio
R.Power, Siemens & ERSTE Group - Standalone BESS Jedwabno 150MW/300MWh Financing
Fidra Energy - Thorpe Marsh Green Energy Hub
DLA Piper - Financing Project Vespa (Rondissone 250MW / 1GWh BESS)
DLA Piper - Advising Lenders on Project Amalfi
Jones Lang LaSalle - Project Hercules
M&A Deal of the Year
EY Parthenon - Supernova Power - sole sell side advisors to both Mercia Power and Balance Power on InfraVia's majority stake acquisition and subsequent merger
TotalEnergies / AllianzGI - 800MW German BESS portfolio Farm-down
DLA Piper - Advising Prime Capital on Project Jupiter
JLL - Project Hercules
DLA Piper - Advising Flower Infrastructure Technologies AB on the acquisition of Project Ragow
Industry Awards
Battery OEM of the Year
IPS - Factory X2 - production capacity and portfolio expansion
C&D Technologies - Pure Lead Max®: Advancing High-Performance Reserve Power
Ateios Systems – High-Performance PFAS-Free Battery Electrode Manufacturing
Developer of the Year
OX2 - Building a scalable BESS portfolio across Europe and Australia
Statkraft - BESS Developer of the Year
Field - The world's longest-duration battery storage projects
Fidra Energy - Accelerating Large-Scale Battery Storage in the UK
Zenobē
EPC Firm of the Year
NHOA Energy - Setting the Benchmark for Global BESS EPC Execution
H&MV Engineering – Coalburn – Delivering Europe's largest transmission-connected BESS
LDES Company of the Year
Envision - Advancing Long-Duration Energy Storage for the New Power System
CMBLU - SolidFlow Battery: Safe, Scalable 10+ Hour Energy Storage
System Integrator of the Year
Sungrow
Envision - Full-Stack Energy Storage Integration for the New Power System
Hyperstrong
RES – RESolve
NHOA Energy - Driving Innovation, Reliability and Grid Transformation Worldwide
XCharge North America - GridLink Battery-Integrated Charging for Grid-Constrained Sites
Valo
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