For most of my career, my IEEE membership sat quietly in the background—a line on my résumé, a discount code for a conference registration, and access to the IEEE Xplore digital library, which I underutilized. I didn’t think much about…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) announced investments of $500 million in a series of projects aimed at expanding critical mineral and material processing, battery manufacturing, and recycling capacity in the U.S.…
Sunrun has agreed with distributed energy resource platform Voltus to support its Bring Your Own Capacity (BYOC) programmes for AI hyperscalers.
The Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) has signed four storage service agreements for the first group of its independent battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, covering a combined capacity of 2,000 MW, and with a four hour duration for 8,000…
The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place. This makes it difficult to…
Scott Murtishaw, executive director at the California Energy Storage Alliance, discusses local opposition, safety misconceptions, and why the state’s containerised projects have proven safe.
The World Bank announced that it has raised $4 billion through the issuance of a new 7-year benchmark Sustainable Development Bond. World Bank Sustainable Development Bonds support the financing of a combination of green and social projects, programs, and activities…
UK-based utility-scale battery storage developer Harmony Energy has energized its 35 MW / 70 MWh Skeeby battery energy storage system (BESS) near Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. The project commenced work in early 2026, with a roughly seven-month turnaround from shovel…
Early-stage cleantech investment firm WovenEarth Ventures announced that it has raised $155 million at the final close of WovenEarth Fund II, aimed at delivering strategic exposure to early-stage cleantech companies with outsized return potential in energy, industry, and resilience. Founded…
A 660 MW GWh advanced CAES project in China’s Henan province has entered the EPC tendering stage, marking another large-scale deployment of long-duration energy storage technology in the country. The Jiyuan 660 MW advanced compressed air energy storage demonstration project…