Lithium demand from stationary storage is expected to slow sharply after two years of rapid growth, according to new analysis from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, which also estimates the lithium industry will need the equivalent of 134 new mines to meet…
The European Commission has selected 12 projects under the manufacturing of clean technologies category of its 2025 Innovation Fund call, with the projects collectively seeking almost €895 million in grants. The portfolio includes new solar cell and module factories, battery…
Brazil’s Energy Research Office (EPE) has published the methodology it will use to calculate the Reference Marginal Cost (CMR), which will inform price caps for the country’s 2026 power capacity reserve auctions for battery energy storage systems (BESS). The technical…
IEEE Life Fellow Manfred “Fred” J. Schindler has been elected as the 2027 IEEE president-elect. He will begin serving as president on 1 January 2028. Schindler, who was nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors, received 16,421 votes in the…
Exchange group Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) announced the launch of HKEX Green Equity, a new voluntary designation program designed to help investors identify companies with a substantial commitment to environmentally sustainable business activities and investment, and enable…
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has proposed revised rules for electricity spot markets, introducing explicit provisions allowing renewable energy projects and their on-site battery storage systems to participate in spot trading as joint bidding entities. The draft Basic…
Ellia Lebleu is a founding member of the WikiProject AI Cleanup, a volunteer effort launched in 2023 to find and remove AI-generated material from Wikipedia that breaks the website’s guidelines. When the cleanup began, AI writing was often betrayed by…
Although relatively new to the energy storage space, pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape is used for protection, security and flexible configuration of equipment in many industries.
Global offshore wind developer Ørsted has completed construction of its 300 MW / 600 MWh Iceni battery energy storage system (BESS) near Norwich, in Norfolk, England. It is its first large-scale BESS project in the UK. A construction start cememony…
Distributed energy storage company Viridi and developer and financier Good Carbon Co. have announced the deployment of a 3.75MWh energy storage project in Buffalo, New York.