A new partnership aims to deploy an integrated solution combining solar PV with sodium-ion batteries at commercial and industrial (C&I) sites in Southeast Asia.

Carrie Xiao reports back from SNEC, the world’s biggest solar PV and energy storage trade show, where large-format lithium cells took centre stage.

We caught up with the CEO of Bulgaria-based International Power Supply (IPS) to discuss its claimed first mass-scale cell-to-system BESS manufacturing facility in Europe and its ultra-high density 20-foot product.

The question of where the cells in a BESS are from ties in to safety, performance, design and, increasingly, potential tariffs.

A trio of major players in the battery storage system integration space have unveiled recent Large-Scale Fire Testing (LSFT) results.

Energy storage-focused lithium-ion OEM Hithium has started mass production of the world’s first 1,000Ah+ battery cell, which it is targeting for long-duration energy storage (LDES) applications.

Samsung SDI will supply megawatt-scale battery storage solutions to Germany-headquartered commercial and industrial (C&I) segment specialist Tesvolt.

Hopewind spoke with us at Intersolar Europe about distributed energy storage and PV offerings and the state of the market.

Inverter and BESS firm Sungrow has launched its latest grid-scale energy storage product offering beyond the 20-foot form factor, following in the footsteps of other providers.

Details on the wind-down of US-based BESS firm American Energy Storage Innovations (AESI) have come out, while battery recycler Li-Cycle has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy and been ordered to cease stock market trading.