China’s activity appears to be slowing, related to market reforms which we’ve covered previously.

See the full figures below. A total of 125.8GWh came online in the first half of the year, 27% higher than the same period in 2025.

The largest project to come online in June was the 3.5GWh Elena BESS in Chile, part of Grenergy’s Oasis de Atacama solar-plus-storage complex. The country’s president attended its inauguration, shortly before a 1TWh night-time PPA was signed with an unnamed buyer.

Projects totalling around 1.6GWh were brought online in Utah and Australia, by rPlus and Akaysha respectively. There were 11 gigawatt-hour scale projects commissioned during the month, with three in China rounding out the list.

The Elena project accounted for the whole of the South & Central America’s figures for the month. In Europe, major projects came online in Hungary, the Netherlands and Bulgaria.

Most of North America’s figures is made up of rPlus Utah project plus Aypa Power’s 250MW/1,000MWh Pediment energy storage project in Mesa, Arizona.

All these projects used lithium-ion technology, mostly lithium iron phosphate (LFP). One major sodium-ion project came online: Power China’s Shanghai Jiading Industry Zone Standalone Energy Storage Project which combined LFP and an undisclosed sodium-ion battery chemistry, totalling 50MW/200MWh.

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence head of research Iola Hughes recently wrote a Guest Blog for Energy-Storage.news on the company’s rankings and analysis of global BESS cell and system suppliers, noting that the nameplate annual production capacity of BESS cells globally surpassed 1TWh for the first time by the end of 2025.

We caught up with the CCO of Netherlands-headquartered startup Moonwatt at last month’s Smarter E Europe trade show in Munich for a video interview.

System integrator HyperStrong will deploy sodium-ion BESS first in its home market of China, before bringing a product to the international markets, its president of technology said.

Chinese system integrators have cemented their dominance of the global battery energy storage system (BESS) market, capturing 76% of global market share in 2025.

The state-owned Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) has revealed the qualified bidders for its second build own operate (BOO) BESS tender, totalling 3GW/12GWh of capacity across six projects.

US sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery startup Alsym Energy and consulting organisation for the mining and energy sectors, Erity, have signed a 9GWh strategic relationship agreement (SRA) for global mining use-cases.