June 2025 saw a total of 7.96GW/22.17GWh of grid-scale BESS enter commercial operations across 109 projects, with over half of that being in China, while the overall first half of the year saw substantial growth.

Listing via the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is emerging as a key financing pathway for China’s energy storage players, writes Carrie Xiao.

With further penetration of solar and wind, grid-forming technologies will become an inevitable choice for the global power system.

PowerChina has begun construction on what is claimed to be the world’s largest generation-side electrochemical energy storage project.

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.

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 has become the latest player in the energy storage space to feel the adverse effects of tariff increases and policy uncertainty.

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.

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.

The question of where the cells in a BESS are from ties in to safety, performance, design and, increasingly, potential tariffs.