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’.

We caught up with Kevin Huang, Senior Vice President and President of Energy Storage Product Line at Envision Energy at Smarter E in Munich for a video interview on the company’s energy storage strategy and the growing role of AI data centres in power demand.

There can be great value in co-location, but the operational reality is not as simple as it may sound, writes Daniel Moore-Oats of Arenko.

UK-based BESS and EV charging firm Zenobē has entered the German market with the acquisition of Bavaria-headquartered BESS developer SDP Energie.

Malawi’s energy minister was on hand last week as the southeast African country inaugurated its first large-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS).

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

Eversource and National Grid will enable customers in Massachusetts to enrol vehicle-to-grid (V2G) -capable EVs in their demand side flexibility programme.

CATL’s energy storage division represented 19.23% of the Chinese battery manufacturer’s total revenue in the first half of 2026.

Two Australian solar-plus-storage projects advance: Ark Energy secures AU$1.3 billion for 2.2GWh Richmond Valley project; Quinbrook submits 250MWp Queensland site.

ESS Tech Inc is deploying sodium-ion BESS in the US with Juniper Energy, while CATL deploys its sodium-ion technology in Eastern Europe with Solarpro.