Skeleton Technologies has secured a strategic investment led by Siemens that values the Estonian ultracapacitor and battery maker at more than $1 billion. Neither company disclosed the size of the investment beyond noting a “9-figure deal”, which Bloomberg reported at…
How similar is the technology of Exa Energy, which just connected a 100MW/1GWh carbon dioxide-based energy storage system to the grid in China, to that of Energy Dome?
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has reported that global annual failures for lithium-ion battery energy storage systems (BESS) per deployed GWh have declined 98% from 2018 to 2025. EPRI defines a failure incident as a large-scale thermal event involving arc-flash, fire,…
Insufficient progress has been made towards the Energy Storage and Grids Pledge, endorsed by dozens of countries at COP29 two years ago.
French energy company Engie announced that it has signed a new framework agreement with multinational shipping and logistics company CMA CGM to develop a biomethane production facility in France to supply renewable fuel to support the decarbonization of CMA CGM’s…
Cox has signed an investment agreement with the government of El Salvador to develop solar power, battery energy storage, natural gas and water infrastructure under a program valued at $2.9 billion. The agreement was signed at the presidential palace by…
Finnish transmission system operator Fingrid has published technical requirements obliging new large wind and solar plants in converter-dominated parts of its network to provide grid-forming control, either through their own inverters or through separate equipment built at or near the…
960MWh Summerfield BESS in South Australia enters commissioning, while Gotion starts building the 843MWh Lower Wonga project in Queensland.
ASL has set a target of 1,500MW of new firming infrastructure in NSW by the end of May 2033 and opened a consultation on the tender.
Progress continues in restructuring IEEE’s geographic regions, as outlined in The Institute’s February 2023 article “IEEE Is Realigning Its Geographic Regions.” The “Region 1” designation will no longer be used. The new Region 2 will merge what is currently Region…