Trina Storage, the battery energy storage business of China’s Trinasolar, has been selected to supply battery storage systems for the 50 MW/196 MWh AEJ Nozu project in Oita Prefecture, Japan. The company announced the contract on October 14, with project…
Samsung SDI has signed a deal to supply 1 GWh of nickel cobalt aluminum (NCA) battery storage to a single US customer, with all cells and modules to be manufactured in the United States. Under the agreement with utility and…
Greenvolt Group, through its utility-scale renewables subsidiary Greenvolt Power, has agreed to sell two operational battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Poland to investment firm A&R Investments. The Malta-based A&R Investments will acquire the 200 MW / 800 MWh…
New data released by SEIA indicates that deployments of solar and battery storage saved Texans approximately $3.55 billion and Californians approximately $2.5 billion in energy costs between June and August 2026, compared to the same period in 2021. The report compared weighted…
Anker announced the S5000 on October 9. I tested a pre-release unit in Northern California, focusing on charging, usable capacity, idle consumption, portability, and backup during a multi-day power outage. Read on to see how my father-in-law’s legendary homemade pasta…
Bluetti is rushing to market its Apex 200, a portable power station in the mould of its earlier Apex 300 with key evolutions and differences, and a big drop in weight. Bluetti said that in response to recent severe-weather outages…
2026 marks a breakout year for India’s energy storage market. According to InfoLink’s Emerging Market Energy Storage Demand Database, India’s annual energy storage capacity additions are expected to exceed 10 GWh in 2026—more than the cumulative total installed in all…
Swedish solar industry association Svensk Solenergi said it and battery producer responsibility organization (PRO) Batterikretsen have sent a joint request to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket), asking it to petition the government to task transmission system operator Svenska kraftnät…
Australia’s 2.2 GW/350 GWh Snowy 2.0 pumped-storage hydroelectricity project is now expected to cost between AUD 22.5 billion and AUD 25 billion through to commissioning in 2029, according to an updated cost and schedule estimate from principal contractor Future Generation…
Negative electricity prices were recorded in several Italian market zones for the first time on Oct. 14, as low demand coincided with solar generation. Valerio Covicchio, country manager at Whes, told pv magazine Italia that the next 7 GW of…