Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with energy storage market experts Raafe Khan of Camelot Energy Group and Oliver Kerr of Aurora Energy Research on FERC’s recently issued show cause orders.
In 2025, BESS installations surpassed 320GWh, a y-o-y increase of over 50%. While this tells one-side of the story, the growth in cell and system shipments tells an even more significant one, writes Benchmark’s Iola Hughes.
The rising costs of coal and gas mean that the adoption of renewable energy is a “survival issue” for countries in Southeast Asia, and energy storage is critical to the transition.
On 29 June, the China Energy Storage Alliance (CNESA) and the China Automotive Battery Industry Innovation Alliance jointly released the ‘Initiative on Standardising Supplier Payment Practices for Power and Stationary Storage Battery Enterprises.’
AEMO has set out a storage requirement of almost 50GW in its latest 2026 Integrated System Plan (ISP), split between 35GW of short and medium-duration battery storage for daily firming and 5GW of long-duration energy storage (LDES) for seasonal reliability.
ESN Premium heard from executives at battery energy storage system (BESS) firms Rept and Fluence on the EU funding ban on Chinese inverters in solar and BESS projects.
