South Korea’s national target is suddenly a sodium-ion affair, with a new “Battery Industry Technology Roadmap” released as it wants its battery makers to shift, with sodium-ion batteries now a priority for energy storage systems and lower-cost EVs, and all-solid-state…
Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance announced the completion of a new green bond offering, raising €8 billion to finance projects with a positive environmental impacts, in areas including renewable energy, energy efficiency and clean transport. The ministry reported strong…
Australian industry body the Clean Energy Council (CEC) has a new Rooftop Solar and Storage Report, which shows a record number of rooftop solar systems and home batteries were installed across Australia in the first six months of 2026 with…
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced plans to expand its sector standards with the development of a new standard designed to enable food and beverage companies to report on relevant impacts in their industries and value chains. The new planned…
Seventeen years ago, cell biologist Donald Ingber and his colleagues at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering submitted a paper to the journal Science describing their model human lung. It was smaller than a USB stick and made…
Chinese solar and storage giant JA has expanded its European commercial and industrial (C&I) battery energy storage system (BESS) range with JAPlanet Fusion and JAPlanet 2.0. The JAPlanet Fusion was announced in China in June and now has confirmed European…
Netherlands-based insurance group Achmea’s investment unit, Achmea Investment Management, and asset manager ILX Management announced a partnership aimed at providing an emerging markets debt impact vehicle for Dutch pension funds. According to the companies, the new platform is being proposed…
Inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology has become the first to be certified as capable of providing inertia to the German grid.
Fuel cell technology startup Reverion announced today that it has raised $175 in a Series B funding round, with proceeds aimed at significantly scaling up production of its power plants, capable of generating carbon negative energy to power industrial sites…
The International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) long-awaited proposed net zero standard, ISO 14040, failed to pass a vote by member organizations required to advance to become a final standard in its current form, ESG Today has confirmed, after receiving record feedback…