North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its most urgent grid reliability warning in response to artificial intelligence data centres causing massive, near-instantaneous power fluctuations.

US President Donald Trump has banned the import of inverters, transformers and other power equipment that pose a potential risk to US grid security.

Rural and distributed battery energy storage system (BESS) projects could be emerging as critical infrastructure in the US as grid reliability risks intensify nationwide.

CATL has formed a partnership to work on projects awarded contracts through Brazil’s first national energy storage auction programme, which received more than 6,000 bids.

CIP has acquired full ownership of the 104MW Gawara Baya wind-plus-storage project in North Queensland, Australia, from developer Windlab.

Speaking to ESN Premium, Kashish Shah of Wärtsilä explains why Australia’s volatile market structure makes it uniquely suited for battery storage.

A roundup of some of the best user-posted views, analysis and reveals from across the energy storage community in the past week.

Entries for the Energy Storage Awards 2026 close soon, and with it, the last chance to take the stage alongside the industry’s finest, and Special Guest Speaker, Ben Fogle.  

China’s listed battery storage companies have entered the peak interim reporting season, with H1 2026 likely marking the broadest profit recovery in recent years.

A roundup of large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects being financed, acquired or contracted in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Romania.