Hithium’s recent sodium-ion battery and BESS product launch is the latest in a long line of announcements showing an inflection point for the battery chemistry. But how do its new products compare to other sodium-ion systems out there, and to its own LFP offering?  

Nearly 21GWh of grid-scale BESS came online globally last month, of which around a fifth was in Saudi Arabia while the majority was in China. 

Hithium has signed a supply agreement with GPG to deliver a 421MWh battery energy storage system for the Fraser Coast project.

Hithium, an integrated energy storage solutions provider known for its leadership in long-duration energy storage, is now seeing strong momentum across its residential businesses and C&I. We discussed this with the company at the Smarter E Europe trade show in Germany last month.  

A shift is happening in Europe’s commercial & industrial (C&I) energy storage market, and integrated energy storage solutions provider Hithium is addressing this demand with a purpose-built 4-hour solution. 

In 2025, BESS installations surpassed 320GWh, a y-o-y increase of over 50%. While this tells one-side of the story, the growth in cell and system shipments tells an even more significant one, writes Benchmark’s Iola Hughes.

With CATL and HyperStrong’s 60GWh sodium-ion battery deal announcement yesterday, it’s an ideal time to look at the different sodium-ion cell chemistries and battery products available for BESS today.

Maxxen managing director Ruben Valiente speaks with Energy-Storage.news editor Andy Colthorpe at Energy Storage Summit 2026 in London.

We analyse and compare the metrics of the various LFP battery cells of 587Ah and above, from leading providers CATL, Eve Energy, Hithium, Rept Battero, CALB and BYD.

China’s biggest energy storage companies were out in force at a recent trade expo in Beijing, with integrated offerings, bigger battery cells, data centre solutions and sodium-ion products among the new products and tech on show.