Chinese energy storage manufacturer Hithium said on October 15 that its cumulative battery shipments had exceeded 200 GWh, marking a sharp acceleration in growth since the company began commercial deliveries in late 2021. The milestone was announced at its manufacturing…
The Netherlands’ digital infrastructure inspectorate, the Rijksinspectie Digitale Infrastructuur, says a faulty update or cyberattack on manufacturer and aggregator platforms could switch enough inverters, home batteries, heat pumps and EV chargers at once to destabilize the grid. It argues in…
A trio of large-scale 4-hour BESS projects in Germany have progressed towards construction, from Enertrag and Enlight, Vattenfall and Fluence, and Giga Storage.
Carbon removal buyer coalition Frontier announced new offtake agreements with carbon sequestration technology company 44.01, on behalf of purchasers including Stripe, Google and Shopify, alongside Autodesk, H&M Group and Workday, based on 44.01’s process to turn CO2 into rock. The…
According to European transmission system operators (TSOs), another process for calculating cross-border electricity trading capacities went live on Oct. 14, 2026. Eighteen grid operators from the European Core region are participating in the new calculation procedure for intraday electricity trading,…
Greek industrial and energy company Metlen, along with Greek industrial conglomerate Karatzis Group, have inaugurated a 330 MW / 790 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Larissa, Thessaly, Greece. The project was officially inaugurated on October 14 in the…
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) revealed that more than 800 companies and financial institutions across 57 countries have now committed to corporate reporting aligned to the TNFD recommended disclosures, marking a 14% increase in TNFD adopters in less…
Italy’s installed solar capacity is expected to rise from 43.5 GW at the end of 2025 to 82.3 GW in 2030, reaching 100 GW to 111 GW in 2035 and 114 GW to 137 GW in 2040. Solar generation is…
ArcActive, a New Zealand-based energy storage company, has switched on a lead-acid battery system pilot at Deakin University’s 7.25 MW microgrid battery testing facility in Waurn Ponds, Australia. ArcActive’s system combines its proprietary fabric electrode technology with a bipolar battery…
Flatiron Energy has secured approximately $850 million in construction and term financing commitments for the Energizar battery project in Chelsea, Mass. The standalone energy storage project will be the largest on the East Coast and one of the largest urban…