US retail giant Walmart has made a strategic investment in home battery storage firm Base Power, while Sunrun has doubled the size of its home battery VPP in Puerto Rico.

Democrats scored major victories in the US Midterm elections, taking both the House and Senate and flipping several long-held Republican strongholds, with changes likely to occur in the clean energy sector.

US President Donald Trump’s 26 August emergency executive order banning imports of certain foreign-made power equipment has prompted widespread public comment and private concern across the energy storage industry.

Sungrow will supply both the BESS and the grid-forming power conversion equipment for ENGIE’s Hazelwood BESS expansion in Victoria, Australia.

Few grids illustrate the strain of America’s data centre boom more starkly than the PJM Interconnection.

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has released over US$46 million for the state’s Distributed Electricity Backup Assets (DEBA) Programme.

Distributed energy resource (DER)-focused company FranklinWH has recently announced advancements in residential energy storage programmes in Louisiana and Iowa.

Energy storage developer-operator Bimergen Energy has filed an application for an Option 2 Retail Electric Provider (REP) certificate in Texas, US.

South Korean battery giant LG Energy Solution (LG ES) has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with owner-operator Energix-Renewable Energies to expand collaboration on energy storage projects in Europe and the US.

CATL has launched its 9MWh TENER+ battery storage system at All-Energy Australia 2026 and signed three MoUs with Australian partners.