


How IEEE Awardee Karen Panetta Became Bewitched by Engineering
When considering the 1960s sitcoms Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, both of which featured women with supernatural powers navigating life with mortals, most people wouldn’t connect them with pursuing an engineering career. But Karen Panetta did. The sitcoms’ main…

Make an Origami Circuit Board
What could you do if you could make a circuit trace by just bending a piece of paper? How about bridging modern technologies and traditional handicrafts while providing opportunities for learning skills in both. As part of our interdisciplinary research…

Dominion Energy launches long-duration energy storage RFI in Virginia
US utility Dominion Energy Virginia (DEV) is issuing a request for information (RFI) for information on long-duration energy storage (LDES) technologies.

AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine
Summary RFIC design is a complex “dark art” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and satellite communications. Princeton researchers use reinforcement learning and inverse design to rapidly create RFICs from scratch. Diffusion models rapidly generate novel…

EU funding ban on Chinese inverters drives BESS industry towards optionality, supply chain resiliency
ESN Premium heard from executives at battery energy storage system (BESS) firms Rept and Fluence on the EU funding ban on Chinese inverters in solar and BESS projects.

US energy storage installations will quadruple by 2031, Wood Mackenzie forecasts
Market research firm Wood Mackenzie predicted that the US energy storage market will almost quadruple over the next six years.

Home Broadband Is 5G’s Surprise Killer App
5G telecommunications, according to industry hype when 5G first launched in 2019, was going to be all about buzzy applications like mobile augmented reality and autonomous vehicles. But the surprise plot twist came when replacing home cable internet turned into…

Grid-forming technology explored and explained: Download our white paper, with Kehua Digital Energy & TÜV Rheinland
‘Enhancing System Stability through Grid-Forming Energy Storage Technologies,’ has been launched by Energy-Storage.news, sponsor Kehua Digital Energy and TÜV Rheinland.

NatPower, Tesla sign 25GWh Megapack supply and execution agreement for Italy and UK BESS projects
NatPower and Tesla have signed a multi-year supply and execution agreement covering more than 25GWh of BESS across Italy and the UK.
