The US and China have announced a 90 day ‘pause’ on their huge reciprocal tariffs while they continue negotiations, with the effective tariff on BESS more than halving to around 60%.
Clean energy trade body ACP announced a commitment on behalf of the US energy storage industry to invest US$100 billion in building and buying American-made grid batteries.
ESN Premium speaks with Senior Director of Strategic Sourcing at Anza Renewables, Ravi Manghani on current challenges energy storage developers are facing
Donald Trump has announced his sweeping ‘Liberation Day’ global tariffs, with another new China tariff resulting in an effective doubling of the price of batteries and BESS imported from there to the US.
Battery storage will help ERCOT manage a doubling of peak demand in Texas in the next five years, said the keynote speaker on Day One of the Energy Storage Summit USA 2025 which kicked off today in Dallas (26 March).
Trump’s dampening effect on US investor sentiment could lead to a flight to quality while tariffs will cause a surge in orders this year, writes Tao Kong, managing partner of developer Luminous Energy.
Trump’s budget reconciliation bill looks like it could take aim at the current tax credits for downstream clean energy projects, and Clean Energy Associates’ base case is that they will be phased out by the end of the year.
US president Donald Trump will enact an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, affecting batteries and BESS, on top of a previously-announced tariff increase set to come in next month.
