Flexible Connection Agreements (FCAs) must not be used simply to exclude BESS from connecting to the grid, but the industry will have to make do with them and all their imperfections for the foreseeable.
Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted 464 – 50 on Tuesday on the adoption of a negotiating position on proposed changes to the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the EU’s carbon tax on imported goods, including extending CBAM to include hundreds…
Since about 2020, AI has largely focused on training bigger and better models. Large language models (LLMs) ballooned from millions of parameters to trillions. This proved effective: The largest version of OpenAI’s GPT-3, released in 2020, correctly answered just 43.9…
Global investment firm Schroders’ impact investment management arm BlueOrchard announced today that it has raised $250 million at the first close of the BlueOrchard Climate Action Mobilisation Fund (BOCAMF), its blended finance fund focused on backing climate mitigation and adaptation…
In 2003, Martin Eberhard, a cofounder of Tesla Motors, decided it was time to start wooing investors. To do that, however, he needed an electric car. So he talked to Alan Cocconi and asked if he could borrow the tZero,…
Supply chain traceability solutions provider TrusTrace announced today the launch of a new platform aimed at enabling understand their supply chains, and identify and act on sustainability and compliance gaps. According to TrusTrace, the new platform comes as brands face…
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has released a comprehensive framework establishing principles and expectations for responsible data centre development in the state.
This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage features Engie, Econergy and Inion Software in Central and Eastern Europe.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Monday the repeal of a series of Biden-era rules aimed at significantly reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuel-based power plants, one of the main sources of the U.S.’ carbon footprint.…
BESS project owners, lenders and optimisers kicked off the Energy Storage Summit Germany 2026 today in Berlin with a discussion on developing a bankable project.