Derrick Flakoll, senior policy associate for North America at BloombergNEF, has offered a more measured take on how the Democrats’ midterm victories could affect the battery energy storage system (BESS) sector.

Energy-Storage.news speaks with Nathan Picarsic, co-founder of Horizon Advisory, at the 2026 US Battery Asset Management and Solar and Storage Finance Summits in Garden Grove, California.

We caught up with NeoVolta CEO Ardes Johnson about its US domestic BESS manufacturing partnership with Chinese firms Potis Edge and Longi, and how it has been structured to be FEOC compliant. 

LG ES posted a quarterly loss in Q1 2026 financial results this morning, partly due to investments in energy storage system (ESS) cell manufacturing.

The US Treasury’s interim FEOC guidance has outlined “Material Assistance” provisions, which rely heavily on existing safe harbour calculations.

Despite a slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales in the US, LG Energy Solution (LG ES) experienced a quarterly rise in profits, driven in part by increasing demand for energy storage.  

The US energy storage industry is becoming better equipped to handle the policy uncertainty which has characterised the year so far, Energy-Storage.news has heard.

London Stock Exchange-listed Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF) has entered into an agreement to sell its investment tax credits (ITCs) for the Big Rock energy storage project in California, US.

US energy storage projects that begin construction by the end of 2033 will remain eligible for investment tax credit (ITC) incentives.

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