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First 106 Units Shipped! HiTHIUM’s Shandong Heze Base Begins Large-Scale Overseas Deliveries of LDES
Source: HiTHIUM Recently, the Shandong HiTHIUM Long-Duration Energy Storage Integrated Industrial Park (Shandong Heze Base) marked its first international export since commencing mass production. The initial shipment—comprising 106 units of the ∞Power 6.25MWh 4-hour long-duration energy storage system prefabricated…
Exclusive: Sungrow Launches All-in-One PowerHarbor, Betting Benelux Home Storage Is Just Beginning
Rooftop solar is already widespread among Dutch households, yet relatively few homes have installed residential energy storage. Sungrow believes this market is only just beginning. On September 22, Sungrow held an event in Amsterdam to officially launch its PowerHarbor all-in-one residential energy storage system in…
Eternalplanet Raises Hundred-Million-Yuan Funding for Global Residential Storage Expansion
Source: Eternalplanet Recently, Shenzhen Eternalplanet Energy Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Eternalplanet) has successfully closed a financing round of hundreds of millions of RMB. Led by ZX Holdings, the raised funds will be mainly used for new product R&D, global market expansion and supply chain…
NVIDIA Starts Selecting "Standard Components" for AIDCs, First Energy Storage List Released!
On September 21, NVIDIA launched a new AI infrastructure qualification program. This time, NVIDIA is looking beyond GPUs and servers, bringing the power and cooling equipment behind AI data centers into its qualification system as well. The first products included in the DSX Ready qualification scope fall into two…
CATL Lists 587Ah Cell at RMB 0.415/Wh, 280Ah and 314Ah Prices Rise 1–2%
CATL has recently adjusted the prices of its energy storage cells on its official online marketplace in China and published the pricing of its 587Ah energy storage cell for the first time. Compared with the previous model of mainly supplying large customers through GWh-scale orders, CATL is now using its online…
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AllFirst 106 Units Shipped! HiTHIUM’s Shandong Heze Base Begins Large-Scale Overseas Deliveries of LDES
Source: HiTHIUM Recently, the Shandong HiTHIUM Long-Duration Energy Storage Integrated Industrial Park (Shandong Heze Base) marked its first international export since commencing mass production. The initial shipment—comprising 106 units of the ∞Power 6.25MWh 4-hour long-duration energy storage system prefabricated…
Eternalplanet Raises Hundred-Million-Yuan Funding for Global Residential Storage Expansion
Source: Eternalplanet Recently, Shenzhen Eternalplanet Energy Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Eternalplanet) has successfully closed a financing round of hundreds of millions of RMB. Led by ZX Holdings, the raised funds will be mainly used for new product R&D, global market expansion and supply chain…
CATL Lists 587Ah Cell at RMB 0.415/Wh, 280Ah and 314Ah Prices Rise 1–2%
CATL has recently adjusted the prices of its energy storage cells on its official online marketplace in China and published the pricing of its 587Ah energy storage cell for the first time. Compared with the previous model of mainly supplying large customers through GWh-scale orders, CATL is now using its online…
DEWA Expands Mohammed bin Rashid Solar Park Phase 7 to 8.4 GWh of Battery Storage
On September 16, during Energy Storage Summit Middle East 2026, the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy again referred to a large-scale lithium-ion battery storage plan in Dubai, with an initial scale of around 1,000 MW and 6,000 MWh of storage capacity, scheduled to be rolled out between 2027 and 2029. These figures do…
Fluence Locks In 206 GWh of Battery Supply Capacity with EVE Energy Through 2031
On September 18, EVE Energy announced that its subsidiary EVE Power had signed a supply framework agreement with Fluence covering 2027–2031, with a total scale of 206 GWh. Of this, 16 GWh is committed for delivery in 2027, while a further 190 GWh of capacity is reserved for 2028–2031. Specific future purchases will…
50 MWh BESS Deal Signed: How Closely Is LONGi Watching Romania’s Energy Storage Market?
Just in the past few days, LONGi and Enexus announced the signing of a 50 MWh liquid-cooled BESS supply agreement. The storage systems will be deployed across two solar-plus-storage projects in the Titu area of Dâmbovița County, Romania. Since 2025, Enexus projects have already deployed more than 200 MW of LONGi PV…
Tesla Energy signs framework agreement for 3 GWh of storage projects in Italy
Zhero has signed a framework agreement with Tesla Energy, together with H1 Holdings, to advance approximately 3 GWh of battery energy storage projects in Italy. The portfolio will start with 200 MW of ready-to-build projects. Project summary Country: Italy Total storage capacity: Approx. 3 GWh First phase: 200 MW of…
Sungrow reportedly plans to source Samsung SDI cells to ease U.S. supply-chain pressure
On September 9, ESS News, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported that Sungrow plans to procure LFP cells from South Korea's Samsung SDI for use in its own energy storage systems, with one of the main goals being to support continued deliveries to the U.S. market. According to the report, the two companies…
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AllExclusive: Sungrow Launches All-in-One PowerHarbor, Betting Benelux Home Storage Is Just Beginning
Rooftop solar is already widespread among Dutch households, yet relatively few homes have installed residential energy storage. Sungrow believes this market is only just beginning. On September 22, Sungrow held an event in Amsterdam to officially launch its PowerHarbor all-in-one residential energy storage system in…
NVIDIA Starts Selecting "Standard Components" for AIDCs, First Energy Storage List Released!
On September 21, NVIDIA launched a new AI infrastructure qualification program. This time, NVIDIA is looking beyond GPUs and servers, bringing the power and cooling equipment behind AI data centers into its qualification system as well. The first products included in the DSX Ready qualification scope fall into two…
30-Year Service Life! Hithium Launches Next Generation 4 MWh Sodium-Ion BESS with 785 Ah Cells
On 16 September, at its "Witnessed Day and Night" online product launch, Hithium officially unveiled its next-generation integrated sodium-ion solution purpose-built for energy storage. The company introduced the ∞Power N4.0MWh, a 4 MWh sodium-ion energy storage system equipped with the ∞Cell N785Ah large-capacity…
Microinverter Giant Enters AIDC: 4 kW Modules Enter Production, Rack Capacity Reaches 5 MW
In May, we introduced Enphase's IQ solid-state transformer (IQ SST) for AI data centers. At the time, the concept was still at the white-paper stage, with the core idea of using a large number of small power modules to build a megawatt-scale system and convert medium-voltage AC directly to 800 V DC. Four months later,…
Sungrow Leverages Decade-long Shanxi Layout to Unveil Innovative Energy Technologies at 2026 Taiyuan
The 10th Taiyuan Energy Low‐Carbon Development Forum was recently held in Taiyuan, Shanxi. As a representative new‐energy enterprise, Sungrow was invited to attend the event. Together with guests from governments, the energy sector and research institutions, it explored innovative pathways for energy transition and…
Beyond the Rankings: What HTW Berlin and aquu's Energy Storage Inspection 2026 Test Really Shows
HTW Berlin and aquu's Energy Storage Inspection 2026 tested 12 residential PV-battery systems involving 10 manufacturers. Eight manufacturers participated publicly under their brand names, while two additional DC-coupled systems were independently purchased by the testing team and presented anonymously. Beyond…
"PCS-Free" Energy Storage Has Entered Commercial Deployment
Last year, we introduced an Australian energy storage company that was doing something a little "counterintuitive" — Relectrify. At the time, the company had just secured A$25 million in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and was preparing to bring a storage system called AC1 to the commercial…
NVIDIA Updates 800VDC White Paper: From Technical Validation to Execution
The rapid expansion of AI data centers is driving computing infrastructure beyond chips, servers, and networks, further into the power system. On August 11, NVIDIA officially released Version 2 of its white paper, "800 VDC Architecture: Industry Alignment & Execution.“ The first edition, released in October 2025,…