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CATL officially listed on the HKEX in May, the year's largest IPO in Hong Kong. Image: CATL
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Energy storage firms spark Hong Kong IPO boom as H-Shares emerge as key financing platform

July 8, 2025
Listing via the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is emerging as a key financing pathway for China’s energy storage players, writes Carrie Xiao.
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Entering the Smart String Grid Forming ESS Era with Huawei

July 4, 2025
With further penetration of solar and wind, grid-forming technologies will become an inevitable choice for the global power system.
Rendering of the 6GWh LFP battery storage project in Ulanqab, central Inner Mongolia, China. Image: PowerChina.

PowerChina begins construction of ‘world’s largest generation-side’ battery storage project

July 3, 2025
PowerChina has begun construction on what is claimed to be the world’s largest generation-side electrochemical energy storage project.
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Hawaiian Electric requests funds with tariffs expected to drive up cost of Tesla BESS

June 26, 2025
Documents filed with the Hawaiian Public Utilities Commission (PUC) have revealed the impacts of additional import tariffs to a Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) battery storage project.
Chint Power's distributed PV-plus-storage solutions are designed to meet the demands of 'Document 136' regulations. Image: Carrie Xiao / Solar Media

SNEC 2025: Safety and modular design in focus for next-gen BESS technologies

June 26, 2025
Carrie Xiao’s exclusive reporting from SNEC 2025 continues with the latest in modular battery storage system design and approaches to fire safety.
Intersect Power's Athos III solar-plus-storage project in Riverside County, California, which went into operation in 2023. Image: Intersect Power
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Intersect Power renegotiates BESS offtake deal to mitigate US tariff uncertainty

June 25, 2025
Intersect Power has become the latest player in the energy storage space to feel the adverse effects of tariff increases and policy uncertainty.
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500Ah+ cells becoming new BESS industry standard as Chinese firms launch large-cell technology race

June 25, 2025
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.
Powin's suppliers like EVE Energy would later become among its biggest direct competitors. Image; Cameron Murray / Solar Media
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Powin ‘struggling to compete with Chinese OEMs’ integrated BESS offerings’

June 24, 2025
Competition from Chinese manufacturers put Powin on a tricky footing, even before industry headwinds dealt the company what appears to have been a lethal blow.
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The dynamics of BESS and cell supplier relationships

June 16, 2025
The question of where the cells in a BESS are from ties in to safety, performance, design and, increasingly, potential tariffs.
Hithium’s Chongqing manufacturing base producing the Cell 1175Ah. Image: Hithium.

Hithium starts manufacturing ‘world-first’ 1175Ah cell as industry ‘enters era of LDES’

June 13, 2025
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.

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