Author: Anela Dokso

Nightpeak’s 150 MW, two hour Bocanova 2 battery reached commercial operation on 17 September, doubling its Brazoria County site in Texas to 300 MW 13 months after the first phase.

A Yeosu company demonstrated a containerised system that turns silicon recovered from waste solar panels into hydrogen and electricity on site, with sodium silicate as a reusable by-product.

Recurrent’s data from more than 30,000 US vehicles put the average EV at 78 percent of its range at 32°F, a 22 percent loss, while a widely read explainer says cold cuts range by nearly a third.

Energy Dome opened a Piacenza plant and plans to spend about €6.5 million over two years to triple output, yet the three projects it names are in India, the United States and Ireland, not Italy.

Jeonju met on 12 October to plan around Hyundai’s nearly 9 trillion won Saemangeum hub, but only 1 trillion won of it is a 200 MW electrolysis plant, against 5.8 trillion won for an AI data center.

Sellafield said on 8 October it has completed the bulk removal of about 110 cubic metres of 1950s liquor from its oldest HALES tanks, on the same day it published a 2026 to 2031 strategy built on a budget of about £2.7 billion a year.

UK ministers granted consent on 8 October for the 500 MW Green Hill Solar Farm, keeping a 60 year operating life that two councils wanted cut to 40 years, with 854.5 ha of best and most versatile land out of arable use.

NESO cut Great Britain’s connection queue from more than 700 GW to a 283 GW pipeline and says over 75 percent of the offers needed for 2030 are issued, but an offer is not a built project.

Ursula von der Leyen says six times last year’s 80 GW of new renewables is waiting for a grid connection, but three published counts of the queue measure different things.

DOE will put up to $150 million of Defense Production Act money into a 223 mile second link between Southcentral and Interior Alaska, against $268 million from non-federal sources.