Swedish renewable energy developer OX2 has acquired two standalone BESS projects, each rated at 100 MW/400 MWh, from Hanwha Energy Europe. The projects will be built in Lecce province in Italy’s southern Puglia region. Construction is scheduled to begin in…
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has tightened security requirements for electronic equipment used in energy infrastructure by adding foreign-made power inverters to its Covered List, preventing certification of new models for the US market that do not meet new…
Base Power has announced the launch of Base Core. a new home battery manufactured by the company in its Austin, Texas factory. The battery comes in two configurations, offering either 39.2 or 78.4 kWh of energy storage to the company’s…
CGDG’s Qinghai branch broke ground Aug. 1 on the flywheel installation in Golmud, in the Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan autonomous prefecture, in partnership with nine other organizations including the China Electric Power Research Institute and Tsinghua University. Qinghai provincial authorities…
Battery diagnostics company Volytica Diagnostics is urging the energy storage industry to shift its focus from adding more fire protection hardware to making better use of operational battery data to detect faults before they become safety incidents. The company’s co-founder…
ContourGlobal has started construction of Los Maitenes, a hybrid solar and battery energy storage project in Chile’s O’Higgins region. The project will combine a 131 MWp solar plant with a 90 MW/360 MWh BESS, providing four hours of storage duration.…
Italy’s energy regulator has proposed cutting the maximum annual payment for the country’s second battery storage capacity auction by about 40%, reflecting lower battery costs ahead of the 2029 delivery auction. The Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment…
Amsterdam-based Ore Energy has raised $43 million to build what it says will be Europe’s first iron-air battery manufacturing facility, aimed at storing renewable electricity for up to 100 hours. The Series A round was led by Plural and HV…
August XX, 2026, Wenzhou, China — Recently, Ian Thorpe, an Australian multiple Olympic champion and Fox ESS’s brand ambassador, visited Fox ESS’s new smart factory in Wenzhou. Opened in June, the facility integrates cutting-edge technologies and has increased production efficiency…
AES Andes has started commercial operations at Bolero BESS, a 146 MW/438 MWh BESS located alongside the 146 MW Bolero solar plant in Sierra Gorda, in Chile’s Antofagasta region. The lithium-ion BESS is paired with the Bolero solar plant, which…