China has repotedly instituted an administrative domestic freeze on regulatory approvals for new battery manufacturing capacity. Authorities are conducting ‘an audit’ into operational and planned pipelines across stationary energy storage and electric vehicle cells. The suspension was first reported over…
Canadian pension fund OPTrust is seeking an exit from Australian clean-energy retailer and developer Flow Power, according to a report by The Australian Financial Review’s ‘Street Talk’, an investment and corporate deal-making reporting column, that frequently flags major renewable asset…
Tech giant Google, Tesla, utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), and distributed energy resource (DER)-focused company Sunrun are launching a new virtual power plant (VPP) in California, US.
Vietnam is preparing to transition its power system beyond basic Time-of-Use (TOU) tariffs and industrial demand response programs toward virtual power plants (VPPs). According to a publication by Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) via its Industry Agency and…
Pakistan’s National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has approved plans to require bidders in a renewable energy auction to include energy storage.
Circular IT solutions provide T1A announced today the acquisition of sustainable hardware solutions provider Flex IT, in a transaction described by the companies as aimed at building a leading European circular IT platform, with revenues of approximately €150 million (USD$174…
Infineon Technologies will supply its silicon carbide power semiconductors (SiC) to Chinese energy storage manufacturer Fox ESS for its future products, fo use in inverters. By using the ‘CoolSiC MOSFETs 1200 V G2’ in the ‘Q-DPAK-PACK,’ Fox ESS says its…
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Rewiring America and Google have launched the Smart Home Assets for Reliability and Efficiency (SHARE) program, a virtual power plant (VPP) designed to deploy and manage flexible residential energy devices in the San Francisco…
Europe’s stationary battery storage capacity reached roughly 60 GWh in 2024, spread across residential, commercial and industrial, and utility-scale installations, according to Bruegel’s newly published “European Clean Tech Atlas.” The think tank said this is enough to supply or absorb…
AES Andes has started testing the battery energy storage system at its Cristales project in the Antofagasta region of northern Chile. The BESS has a power output of 340 MW and four hours of duration, equivalent to 1,360 MWh of…