Energy storage is becoming an indispensable new-type power system infrastructure, CATL CEO and chairman Robin Zeng said in an industry speech last week.

New Zealand energy storage company ArcActive has switched on a pilot lead-acid BESS in Victoria, Australia, with support from Origin Energy.

Around 20.4GWh of grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) came online globally last month, bringing the year-to-date (YTD) total to 208GWh.

Insufficient progress has been made towards the Energy Storage and Grids Pledge, endorsed by dozens of countries at COP29 two years ago.

The expert judges’ difficult decisions to select winners from hundreds of worthy entries for the Energy Storage Awards 2026 are almost finalised.

Europe is no longer betting on second-life repurposing of EV batteries for stationary BESS applications, and that is not a bad thing, argues David Oudsandji, CEO of Voltfang.

Alberto Valenzuela discusses ahead of Energy Storage Summit Latin America about Mexico’s growing interest in renewables and energy storage, and the factors driving this growth.

Power group Engie has put an 142MW/802MWh BESS project in Chile into operation, while IPP Grenergy has secured financing for the fifth and final stage of its Oasis de Atacama solar-plus-storage project.

Distributed energy resource (DER) platform Voltus has raised US$225 million in an oversubscribed Series D financing round and is looking to expand in the US and Canada.

Australians installed 276,011 home battery storage systems in the first half of 2026, 52% more than in the previous six months.