India's NTPC Tenders Sodium-Ion BESS Pilot as Demand Hits 28GWh
India's largest utility, NTPC, has opened a tender for a grid-connected sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery energy storage system — the state-owned power giant's latest move to diversify beyond lithium. NTPC, which operates roughly a quarter of India's grid-connected power plants, issued invitations for ...
Philippines' 500MW/1GWh SanMar BESS Gets PHP9 Billion as ACEN Backs Southeast Asia's Fastest-Growing Storage Market
The Philippines' battery storage buildout has found its next anchor project. ACEN Corp, the renewable energy platform of the Ayala Group, has lent PHP9 billion (roughly US$144 million) to subsidiaries within the group for solar and battery storage development — with PHP6 billion of that total ...
CATL, EVE Energy Lead Chinese Battery Cell Price Hikes as 2% Consumption Tax Takes Effect
China's battery energy storage industry is entering a fresh round of cell price increases, led by tier-1 manufacturers CATL and EVE Energy, with smaller producers quickly following suit — a shift driven by a new 2% consumption tax on batteries that took effect on 1 September 2026. CATL has raised ...
Equinor's East Point Starts 100MW/200MWh Citrus Flatts BESS in Texas
Equinor-owned developer East Point Energy has completed construction and started operations at the 100MW/200MWh Citrus Flatts battery energy storage system (BESS) in Harlingen, Texas — announced 3 September and the company's second operational project after the 10MW/20MWh Sunset Ridge facility, ...
China Storage H1 2026: Domestic Dip 18%, Overseas Orders +83%
At the 11th Western Energy Storage Forum, CNESA Chairman Chen Haisheng unveiled the industry's H1 2026 dataset: China commissioned 21.81GW/58.60GWh of new storage in H1 2026 — down 18% in power and 16% in energy terms year-on-year, the first-ever decline in domestic deployments. Cumulative power...
Germany Capacity Market: EC Approval Leaves Batteries on Sidelines
Germany's future capacity market — a mechanism worth an estimated €15.6–35.2 billion — won European Commission state aid approval on 2 September, but critics say its first auctions are effectively closed to battery storage. The mechanism, which will remunerate capacity from 2031 under Germany's ...
Italy Declares Sardinia AI Data Centre with Hybrid Gravity-BESS Hub of Strategic National Interest
ROME — Italy has declared an AI data centre integrated with a hybrid gravity-plus-battery storage hub of strategic national interest, granting Energy Vault's Digital Vault Sulcis project an accelerated approval pathway. The Council of Ministers, led by PM Giorgia Meloni, approved the designation in ...
Brazil's First National Storage Auction Draws Record 296.9GW of Bids — CATL, Cornex Move In
BRASÍLIA — Brazil's first national energy storage auction has drawn a record 6,091 project bids totaling 296,908MW — the highest participation of any energy auction in the country's history, the Energy Research Office (EPE) confirmed. The two-auction programme (LRCAP – National Storage) marks the ...
Trump Declares National Emergency, Bans Imports of Inverters, Transformers and BESS Equipment
WASHINGTON — President Trump has declared a national emergency over foreign-made power equipment, banning imports of grid-connected inverters, transformers and battery energy storage systems (BESS) that he says pose an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to US bulk-power system security. The ...
