Tariffs announced on ‘Liberation Day’ have already caused battery storage project deals to fall through in the US, Energy-Storage.news has heard.

ESN Premium speaks with Senior Director of Strategic Sourcing at Anza Renewables, Ravi Manghani on current challenges energy storage developers are facing

A total of 10.9GWh of grid-scale BESS entered commercial operations in March, up 29% year-on-year and 3% month-on-month. 

Donald Trump has announced his sweeping ‘Liberation Day’ global tariffs, with another new China tariff resulting in an effective doubling of the price of batteries and BESS imported from there to the US.

A 200MW/400MWh BESS project in China combining lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries has been put into operation.

Juan Ceballos, Trina Storage head of sales for Europe, tells ESN Premium how one of solar’s big players aims to become a major presence in energy storage.

February 2025 saw around 4.5GW/10.5GWh of grid-scale BESS deployments globally, with China continuing to account for the majority but Europe increasing its share from January.

We hear from startup Volklec which, like another European battery company Elinor, will build its batteries with a Chinese technology and manufacturing partner. They both say this will get around the challenges that ultimately doomed Europe’s first wave of battery startups, with Northvolt today declaring bankruptcy in Sweden.

The development of global standards and specifications for the electrolyte used in vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) is “crucial” for the technology’s prospects.

Tim Buckley of the Climate Energy Finance speaks to ESN Premium about how Australia-Chinese relations could provide an energy storage boom.