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India’s reported plastic waste generation fell to 1.76 million tonnes in 2024 to 2025 from 4.14 million tonnes two years earlier, according to data compiled by PRS Legislative Research from government figures.

Peru is moving from pilot level battery deployment toward a regulatory framework that could determine how battery energy storage systems participate in the country’s electricity market, as the energy regulator prepares a technical study on integrating BESS into transmission and generation regulation. Osinergmin has opened a tender for a 300 day consultancy to assess the incorporation of battery storage into the regulation of generation and transmission activities within Peru’s National Interconnected Electric System, known as SEIN. The assignment includes a diagnostic of BESS development in Peru and the preparation of technical and regulatory proposals. The tender is a sign that…

Masdar has begun commercial operations at its 35 MW/70 MWh Royle Barn Road battery in Rochdale, northern England, adding another grid scale storage asset to the UK’s rapidly expanding battery market as the country accelerates investment in flexibility to support a more renewable power system.

Uttar Pradesh is moving to turn its emerging green hydrogen strategy into a technology and investment partnership with Japan, as the state and Yamanashi Prefecture expand cooperation beyond research toward pilot projects, skills development and potential commercial deployment.

Namibia has commissioned an integrated green hydrogen facility at Walvis Bay that combines a 5 MWp solar park, a 5 MW proton exchange membrane electrolyzer and 5.9 MWh of battery storage, creating an operating model that links renewable electricity generation directly with hydrogen production, storage and end use.

The UK is putting public money behind technologies designed to store electricity for at least 100 hours, reflecting a growing recognition that a power system increasingly dependent on wind and solar cannot rely solely on short duration batteries to manage prolonged periods of low renewable generation.

Hydrogen equities are once again showing how quickly investor enthusiasm can turn when financing conditions tighten. On August 20, FuelCell Energy, Bloom Energy and Plug Power all moved lower, with FuelCell Energy experiencing the sharpest intraday decline.

Global hydrogen demand surpassed 100 million tonnes in 2025, yet low emissions hydrogen still accounted for only around 1% of production.

The cancellation of Germany’s HyScale 100 project for a second time exposes a problem that increasingly defines Europe’s green hydrogen market: the region can assemble ambitious project pipelines and substantial public funding, but converting those plans into financeable industrial assets remains difficult.

Ola Electric is moving beyond electric mobility with its Shakti battery storage platform, built around lithium iron phosphate cells produced through its own vertically integrated manufacturing operations.