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In the 1960s NASA began developing a system of reusable space shuttles to make its work more efficient and to reduce costs. The shuttles could launch like rockets, maneuver in Earth’s orbit, and land like airplanes. They also could carry…
Grid intelligence technology company Gridsight announced that it has raised $26 million in a Series B funding round, with proceeds aimed at expanding its platform in the U.S. and Australia to help utilities unlock more capacity from the grid. Founded…
UNIGRID said it has completed Hyundai Motor Group’s ZER01NE Accelerator program, an initiative the companies said began in 2025 to identify non-flammable BESS technologies for high-safety energy infrastructure. The US battery developer’s proprietary sodium chromium oxide (NCO) chemistry was selected…
Snacking, food, and pet care products provider Mars announced a series of new investments from its Mars Impact Fund, with $13 million in grants for projects aimed at strengthening the resilience of the company’s sourcing communities, developing the next generation…
Stationary battery energy storage systems (BESS) have multiple vectors for technology improvements, and battery management systems may be set to make a step-change improvement. Standard battery management systems (BMS) monitor cells in a passive way, monitoring voltages and grading them…
New York State’s Climate Change Superfund Act, which would require fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the investments in infrastructure needed to adapt to climate change in the state, ran into a major obstacle, with a U.S. federal…
Sungrow’s first-half-of-year (H1) revenue fell 28.99% year-on-year, while net profit attributable to owners of the parent company dropped 32.01%.
A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner does, with operators…