Europe is suddenly seeing AI data centre scale-up take centre stage in energy planning considerations amid the ongoing electrification of the economy.

Battery storage is effectively a hardware-backed multi-strategy trading platform, writes Partha Sharma, president of BBNR Capital Management.

Carrie Xiao reports back from this year’s edition of SNEC in Shanghai, China, the world’s biggest solar and energy storage expo.

The solar PV and energy storage expo SNEC 2026 in Shanghai, China, was the place to see product launches and showcases from the big players.

Japanese telecoms tech company Softbank Corporation has launched a battery cell and battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturing arm in its home country.

The many considerations developers must factor in when deploying battery storage for data centres were discussed on a panel at Energy Storage Summit USA 2026.

Energy storage firm Guoxia Technology (02655.HK) has released its first full annual report since listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange late last year.