MIT researchers have created a way to make more climate-informed energy siting choices and shown how it can be used to make energy systems more resilient and reduce blackouts. The researchers’ framework, described in Nature Energy, combines fine-scale meteorology with…
Software-enabled energy supplier David Energy has partnered with food technology platform Wonder to deploy consumer-grade, 120-volt plug-in battery storage across 21 New York City locations, utilizing custom software integration to cut commercial kitchen electricity bills by 3% to 5% while bypassing traditional…
The government of Malawi has switched on the country’s first battery energy storage system (BESS). The 20 MW/40 MWh project is located in the township of Kanengo, within the northern region of Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital. The Kanengo BESS project was…
Avantus has closed a US$1.05 billion corporate credit facility to support the company’s IPP strategy and accelerate development of its solar and energy storage portfolio.
In this news roundup, ACCURE, Hydrostor, Shoals and TerraFlow, and Qnetic claim significant advances in and for energy storage technology.
Energy Vault said it has signed its single largest commercial agreement, winning a deal to supply BESS and grid-forming power conversion systems, for a 1.25 GW integrated power infrastructure deployment serving a hyperscaler AI data center in Texas. In the…
Romania has surpassed 1 GW/2 GWh of installed utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), according to figures provided by the Romanian Photovoltaic Industry Association (RPIA). Irene Mihai, RPIA policy director, told ESS News that Romania currently has around 1.1 GW/2…
An international team of scientists has conducted a literature review of recent advances and future prospects for key components of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). SIBs store and release energy by shuttling sodium ions between the cathode and anode through an electrolyte…
International power producer ContourGlobal has continued its busy 2026 expansion with an announcement that it has signed a 3 GWh order with Chinese battery giant CATL for battery energy storage systems (BESS) for its projects. The lithium iron phosphate (LFP)…
Serentica Renewables has commissioned the first phase of a battery storage project that will help deliver round-the-clock (RTC) renewable energy in Rajasthan, India.