South Korean battery and electronics materials manufacturer Samsung SDI has secured a KRW1.5 trillion (US$1 billion) deal to supply energy storage system (ESS) batteries for a US energy company.

Western system integrators face a continual ‘squeeze’ in where they add value in BESS and may struggle to keep up with the speed of technology innovation from China, Rept’s Andy Tang said in a video interview with Energy-Storage.news recently.

China’s energy storage sector may be at the start of a price trend reversal, with recent data showing price increases.

A European Commission (EC) proposal to add domestic content requirements for energy storage will ‘significantly impact’ the industry but may not reduce overall dependence on China.

A number of Chinese energy storage companies have released their 2025 annual earnings results and forecasts, revealing divergent performance.

The first monthly global grid-scale BESS deployment figures for 2026 are in from Rho Motion, showing a year-on-year fall and China continuing to account for the majority of activity.

Energy-Storage.news Premium hears from Giovanni Damato, President of organic flow battery company CMBlu Energy, Inc., on changes to FEOC and Section 301 tariffs.

Chinese-based OEM Sungrow will build a PV inverter and battery storage manufacturing facility in southwest Poland, its first outside Asia.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks to Daniel Dedrick, US-based BESS developer and operator, GridStor’s CTO, about the company’s strategies for navigating FEOC and Section 301 tariffs.

Three Chinese energy storage companies have recently successively filed or updated their listing applications with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), planning IPOs on the Hong Kong Main Board.