A report from SEIA and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has revealed that US installed energy storage capacity grew by 20.2 GWh in the second quarter of 2026, representing 6.7 GW of continuous power output capacity. The additions, detailed in the Q3…
Aerospace startup JetZero announced that it has closed a senior secured term loan facility of up to $100 million, with proceeds aimed at advancing the development and production of the company’s blended wing aircraft program, which the company estimates will…
Decarbonization-focused investment firm Aligned Climate Capital announced the launch and first close of Aligned Solar Partners 7 (ASP7), its seventh infrastructure fund focused on acquiring and developing distributed solar and energy storage projects across the U.S. The firm said that…
Early-stage venture capital firm Auxxo announced today that it has raised €33.3 million (USD$38.2 million) at the final close of Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund II, aimed at backing female co-founded startups across Europe at the pre-seed and seed stages. The…
China has begun collecting consumption tax on lithium-ion batteries from Sept. 1, ending an exemption that had been in place for more than a decade and adding a new cost component for domestic battery energy storage products. The measure is…
A coalition of 19 state Attorneys General* announced the publication of a letter to Deloitte, EY, PwC and KPMG, warning the Big 4 accounting firms of potential violations of state laws and duties of independence “by committing to push for…
Three years after the EU Batteries Regulation (EUBR) entered into force, it is becoming easier to separate regulatory expectations from measurable market impacts, writes patent lawyer Chloe Flower.
HyperStrong has broken ground on the GigaBattery Boxberg 400, a 400 MW GWh battery energy storage system in Saxony, Germany, acting as turnkey contractor for project owner LEAG Clean Power. The facility is being built on a six-hectare remediated site…
We hear from Nikhil Koppaka, senior commercial manager for BESS owner-operator BW ESS on the big opportunities and challenges in Germany’s grid-scale energy storage market.
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its most urgent grid reliability warning in response to artificial intelligence data centres causing massive, near-instantaneous power fluctuations.