Sodium-ion BESS startup Moonwatt expects the battery chemistry to reach price cost parity with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) in the next two or three years, according to its CCO, Valentin Rota.

With ees Europe taking place in Munich, Germany, this week alongside Intersolar Europe and Smarter E, Energy-Storage.news takes a look at some expo highlights.

Market research firm Wood Mackenzie predicted that the US energy storage market will almost quadruple over the next six years.

The trend for mainland China-listed energy storage firms to seek secondary listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange shows no sign of abating, writes Carrie Xiao.

As of the second quarter of this year, installed energy storage capacity in Europe overtook nuclear, according to trade association Energy Storage Europe’s new report.

We chat to Stephan Lehrke, head of Germany at Second Foundation, a Czech Republic-headquartered energy asset trading firm which is becoming an owner-operator of BESS.

Around 4.9GW/14.6GWh of large-scale BESS came online in May, with a much more balanced regional breakdown than usual.

Virginia’s biggest standalone BESS comes online, Cypress Creek raises funding for a gigawatt-scale hybrid resource, and Kore Power’s mobile solutions subsidiary is sold, in this edition of news in brief.

Western Power has started construction on 18 community battery energy storage systems across Perth and Bunbury in Western Australia.

APAC’s AI data centres look set to lock in a decade of coal and gas dependency, but long-duration energy storage can break that cycle, says Pavina Adunratanasee of ArkTerra Partners.