We caught up with Kevin Huang, Senior Vice President and President of Energy Storage Product Line at Envision Energy at Smarter E in Munich for a video interview on the company’s energy storage strategy and the growing role of AI data centres in power demand.
In this deep-dive, we go through and analyse all of the technical features and claims of CATL’s new sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product, including its ‘millisecond-level self-healing’.
We caught up with the CEO of owner-operator BW ESS, Erik Strømsø, about the firm’s next deployment plans, tolling trends, procurement and LDES, with its 11.5-hour Bannaby BESS in Australia further proof of lithium-ion’s long-duration potential.
Alcemi, developer of some of the UK’s biggest projects, has entered the Romanian battery storage market, while Slovakia’s biggest project to date has gone into operation.
LG Energy Solution (LG ES) posted a profitable second quarter this year, with investments in battery storage in the US and EV cell production in Europe paying off.
Large data centres should serve as “anchor tenants” for new renewable energy generation, storage, and transmission investment, leveraging the scale and longevity of digital infrastructure commitments to advance energy projects rather than waiting for supply to arrive.
NextEra Energy recorded a 9.5% increase in its net earnings in Q2 2026, as the company advanced its plan to merge with Dominion Energy to form the world’s largest regulated power utility.
RWE has launched construction on a 236MW/470MWh BESS in Germany, while IPP Kallista has done the same on a 193MW/386MWh system in France, supplied by Envision Energy.
