While Chinese companies dominated the square footage at ees Europe / Intersolar Europe in Munich last month, some project developers are still keen on prioritising products made closer to home.

Being able to create a single contract for project delivery is perhaps the biggest advantage of vertically integrating battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturing with system integration, according to the CEO of LG Energy Solution (LG ES) Vertech.

Lawyers from Herbert Smith Freehills discuss the challenges for the nascent European gigafactory ecosystem in light of heavy competition from the US and China, alongside the role that energy storage system (ESS) demand will play.

Helena Li, Trina Solar executive president, discusses how the major solar PV company is growing its footprint in battery storage.

Energy-Storage.news caught up with Yann Brandt, chief commercial officer (CCO) at FlexGen, the US system integrator with a strong focus on software through its Hybrid OS controls platform.

LG Energy Solution will build a cell factory with 16GWh of annual production capacity dedicated to the stationary energy storage market.

“Overall we are very happy with the direction of the budget,” says Dr Rahul Walawalkar, president of the India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA).

A 200MW/400MWh BESS has gone live in Ningxia, China, equipped with Hithium lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells.

Lithium-ion battery pack prices have gone up 7% in 2022, marking the first price rise since BloombergNEF began its surveys in 2010.

Sherif Abdelrazek from energy storage software company Storlytics on one of the major challenges still faced in the BESS space.