On August 10, REPT BATTERO reported that its H1 2026 performance had already surpassed its 2025 full-year results, with residential storage cell shipments ranking first globally. The company also unveiled its new cell products for AIDC (AI Data Center), commercial vehicles, and low-altitude aircrafts.

The largest grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the Czech Republic has gone online, supplied by a company invested in by lithium-ion OEM CATL. 

In this deep-dive, we go through and analyse all of the technical features and claims of CATL’s new sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product, including its ‘millisecond-level self-healing’.

Hanoi Power Corporation (EVNHANOI) has begun pilot operation of five battery energy storage systems at substations in Hanoi, Vietnam.

We caught up with Michael Koller, Solutions Director for Europe and the UK with Envision Energy, at this year’s Smarter E Europe trade show in Munich. 

SINEXCEL’s Luke Lu discusses grid-forming power conversion systems, noise constraints and O&M as the company builds its presence in Europe.

With the Energy Storage Awards 2026 entry deadline less than two months away, we speak to four judges to hear what they are looking for from successful entrants.

UAE state-owned IPP Masdar has reached financial close on what it has claimed is the world’s “first gigascale 24/7 renewable energy project”.

Hithium, an integrated energy storage solutions provider known for its leadership in long-duration energy storage, is now seeing strong momentum across its residential businesses and C&I. We discussed this with the company at the Smarter E Europe trade show in Germany last month.  

We analyse recent details that have emerged on battery OEM CATL’s zero-degradation BESS technology, which was first announced two years ago.