ESN Premium speaks with Zane Zhou of CATL Australia and New Zealand, about TENER+, sodium-ion demand, the Collie BESS and more.

US President Donald Trump’s 26 August emergency executive order banning imports of certain foreign-made power equipment has prompted widespread public comment and private concern across the energy storage industry.

Australia’s grid-scale BESS fleet earned an estimated AU$37.62 million in the National Electricity Market (NEM) in October 2026.

Few grids illustrate the strain of America’s data centre boom more starkly than the PJM Interconnection.

Demand for 8-hour battery energy storage in Australia is “completely artificial” and relies on government underwriting, according to Tesla, which said asymmetric registration can help such projects earn more.

India’s storage market is expanding, but project delivery depends on predictable procurement, domestic manufacturing and revenue models that support investment.

Regulation, energy independence and energy demand growth as key drivers for BESS development across several markets in Latin America.

India has 5.3GWh of operational battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity, with a further 185GWh of projects under development, according to Prashant Bhamu, deputy director of integrated resources planning at the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), part of the Ministry of Power.

Aurora Energy Research has launched a forecast service to help investors and developers assess the commercial case for battery storage in the Philippines.

Ana Lía Rojas, executive director at the Chilean renewable energy and energy storage association (ACERA) gave the opening keynote of Energy Storage Summit Latin America 2026 and spoke about Chile’s current BESS market.