We catch up with the CEO of Netherlands-headquartered system integrator Alfen to discuss its sodium-ion BESS partnership with CATL and plans for the technology in Europe.

US retail giant Walmart has made a strategic investment in home battery storage firm Base Power, while Sunrun has doubled the size of its home battery VPP in Puerto Rico.

BESS owner-operator Return has secured an €835 million (US$938 million) portfolio financing underwritten by Deutsche Bank and Rabobank to expand its BESS activities in Germany.

Three developers have secured debt and equity for solar PV, wind and battery storage projects across Australia and New Zealand.

The Democrats have won the House and the Senate in the US Midterm elections, dealing a blow to the Trump administration and sending Chinese and Korean battery share prices upwards.

LG Energy Solution saw 28% quarter-on-quarter growth in revenue in Q3 2026, with “significant energy storage system (ESS) shipment growth” among the main drivers.

BESS owner-operators Return and BW ESS have financed and acquired large-scale projects in Spain and France, respectively, totalling a little over 1GWh.

BW ESS has put its 350MW/1,240MWh Hams Hall BESS project in the UK into operation, the largest in Europe.

CEO and CFO of energy storage technology provider Fluence have both left the company.

Revera Energy has doubled its holdco credit facility from US$150 million to US$300 million to fund its BESS pipeline in the UK and Australia.