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.

Executives from lithium-ion battery and BESS manufacturer CATL discussed sodium-ion technology at Smarter E Europe today.

CATL held the global launch of its large-scale sodium-ion BESS yesterday, unveiling a 30MWh+ module which it will ship outside China from next year.

FlexGen and Eos Energy Enterprises, two US energy storage sector companies with different specialisations, have entered the European market.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with co-founder and chief products officer of microinverter and home energy storage system supplier Enphase Energy, Raghu Belur, about the company’s recent focus on solid-state transformer technology.

A group of sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery-focused companies have launched a new industry coalition, the American Battery Leadership Coalition (ABLC).

Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic intends to convert its electric vehicle (EV) battery cell manufacturing facility in Kansas, US, to produce batteries for data centre applications, beginning Q3 of 2029.

A ‘staged approach’ to implementing the EU Battery Passport could be essential if Europe is to improve its battery supply chain.

‘We are walking with open eyes into new dependencies,’ said ReCharge’s Ilka von Dalwigk at the Energy Storage Summit.

SK On’s North America president tells ESN Premium about the battery company’s vertically integrated push for market share across the US.