June 2025 saw a total of 7.96GW/22.17GWh of grid-scale BESS enter commercial operations across 109 projects, with over half of that being in China, while the overall first half of the year saw substantial growth.

Indonesia’s national Consumer Protection Agency (BKPN) will coordinate at least US$1 billion in investment for off-grid solar-plus-storage.

A subsidiary of CATL and local partners have begun construction on a battery manufacturing complex in West Java, Indonesia.

A new partnership aims to deploy an integrated solution combining solar PV with sodium-ion batteries at commercial and industrial (C&I) sites in Southeast Asia.

The Philippines Department of Energy (DOE) officially opened its hugely anticipated fourth Green Energy Auction (GEA-4) round to registrants earlier this week.

The question of where the cells in a BESS are from ties in to safety, performance, design and, increasingly, potential tariffs.

Inverter and BESS firm Sungrow has launched its latest grid-scale energy storage product offering beyond the 20-foot form factor, following in the footsteps of other providers.

China continues to dominate BESS deployments globally with 4.3GW/11.2GWh of deployments in May, including a 1GWh flow battery system.

We caught up with China’s largest system integrator HyperStrong’s President of Technology Dr. Guang Yang about how the company is positioning itself for international expansion.  

Roman Bykadorov of Lemberg Solutions writes that active cell balancing can help mitigate battery management and lifecycle issues, but its application requires complex consideration.