Canadian Solar intends to double its battery energy storage system (BESS) division’s manufacturing capacity, the company’s new CEO has said.

Japanese telecoms tech company Softbank Corporation has launched a battery cell and battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturing arm in its home country.

Fluence’s share price rose sharply after its Q2 2026 financial results came out, with the company reaffirming full-year revenue and EBITDA guidance.

Francesco Oppici, co-founder and CCO of Carbon dioxide-based long-duration energy storage (LDES) company Energy Dome tied the commercialisation path of LDES to data centres.

US investment group Pantheon Atlas LLC has a planned 1GW hyperscaler data centre campus in Croatia will be supplied entirely by renewables.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Rob Greskowiak, chief commercial officer at Lightshift Energy, about the company’s distributed storage approach to the demand of PJM.

Utility DTE Energy has said it will forego customer rate increases for two years dependent on the success of a US$16 billion data centre campus involving a battery energy storage system (BESS).

US ‘multi-day’ energy storage startup Noon Energy has announced an agreement with Meta to reserve up to 1GW/100GWh of long-duration energy storage (LDES) capacity.

The many considerations developers must factor in when deploying battery storage for data centres were discussed on a panel at Energy Storage Summit USA 2026.

In this US news roundup, Eos and Turbine-X, CPower and Vertiv, and Elevate Renewables highlight the ‘bring your own capacity’ model in data centre-focused announcements.