BESS Large-Scale Fire Testing (LSFT) has been adopted as part of best practice thinking on safety validation, with at least a dozen companies announcing tests and results and many more expected going forward. It becomes mandatory in the 2026 edition of NFPA 855.

A staggering total of 18GW/65GWh of large-scale BESS came online in China last month, accounting for a quarter of the total capacity deployed across the globe in 2025.

Fluence senior VP and chief enterprise operations officer Roman Loosen explains how 2025 saw energy storage go from “important” to “essential.”

DNV has forecast that the MENA region will add 860GW of new solar PV by 2040, and energy storage capacity will grow 10x by 2030.

Tesla and Sungrow continue to top the Battery StorageTech Bankability Ratings Report, which also shows how revenue, profitability and shipments are trending in the industry, writes Solar Media Market Research analyst Joe Hennessy.  

With the global AI data centre boom already here and growing rapidly, HiTHIUM brings products and strategies to help solve its significant energy challenges.

Giriraj Rathore, senior director of global business development at Hithium, discusses market and technology development dynamics as part of our annual Q&A series.

Anita Li, vice president of Jinko ESS, reflects on a ‘transformational year’ in which the energy storage arm of the vertically integrated solar manufacturer continued to expand.  

It’s been a bumper year for sponsored webinars here at Energy-Storage.news, and here is a selection to round out 2025.

As we welcome the end of another year and greet the next, here are the top 10 most-read news stories from 2025.