Category: Clean Power & Energy Storage

Welcome to our latest BESS Industry Buzz, this week featuring the US midterms, ultra-rapid BESS commissioning, how to calculate RTE and a cybersecurity incident in Chile. Source: Energy Storage News.

Renewables developer D. E. Source: Energy Storage News.

US retail giant Walmart has made a strategic investment in home battery storage firm Base Power, while Sunrun has doubled the size of its home battery VPP in Puerto Rico. Source: Energy Storage News.

We catch up with the CEO of Netherlands-headquartered system integrator Alfen to discuss its sodium-ion BESS partnership with CATL and plans for the technology in Europe. Source: Energy Storage News.

LG Energy Solution saw 28% quarter-on-quarter growth in revenue in Q3 2026, with “significant energy storage system (ESS) shipment growth” among the main drivers. Source: Energy Storage News.

The Democrats have won the House and the Senate in the US Midterm elections, dealing a blow to the Trump administration and sending Chinese and Korean battery share prices upwards. Source: Energy Storage News.

BESS owner-operators Return and BW ESS have financed and acquired large-scale projects in Spain and France, respectively, totalling a little over 1GWh. Source: Energy Storage News.

Australia has finished trialling grid-forming battery storage for system security services and needs contracts signed within two years. Source: Energy Storage News.

Grid connections are now the biggest brake on rapid EV charging. Here’s how battery storage lets charging sites deliver more power from a smaller connection, and when it pays to add it.

US President Donald Trump’s 26 August emergency executive order banning imports of certain foreign-made power equipment has prompted widespread public comment and private concern across the energy storage industry. Source: Energy Storage News.

The UK BESS-owning Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has launched a formal sales process, a decision which has seen its share price jump 10%. Source: Energy Storage News.

Sungrow will supply both the BESS and the grid-forming power conversion equipment for ENGIE’s Hazelwood BESS expansion in Victoria, Australia. Source: Energy Storage News.