Chile, China and Australia drove global BESS deployments in April, a month which saw nearly 9GWh of grid-scale capacity enter commercial operations.

Goldwind discusses how its unmatched system-level expertise from the renewables space makes it ideally placed to solve the key industry challenges it sees emerging in energy storage.

Mining consortium Kamoa Copper and IPP CrossBoundary Energy have agreed a PPA providing baseload renewable energy for one of the largest copper mines globally, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Donald Trump has announced his sweeping ‘Liberation Day’ global tariffs, with another new China tariff resulting in an effective doubling of the price of batteries and BESS imported from there to the US.

February 2025 saw around 4.5GW/10.5GWh of grid-scale BESS deployments globally, with China continuing to account for the majority but Europe increasing its share from January.

China-based lithium-ion OEM Gotion has launched a 7MWh BESS DC block product and claims over 7GWh of deals already.

Egypt’s government has signed contracts with developer AMEA Power for two large-scale battery energy storage projects, the country’s first.

A total of 5.2GW/13.8GWh of grid-scale BESS capacity came online in January 2025, of which over two thirds was in China.

A few weeks ago, a battery recycling deal was announced for a 640MWh BESS project in Australia, but the project isn’t even built yet and the cells have 25-year warranties – we caught up with the company recycling the batteries to hear more.

LG Energy Solution is ‘proactively responding to market volatilities’ that have seen the South Korean battery manufacturer’s annual operating profits slide 73.4%.