- Battery Storage Moves to the Center of Renewable Energy Growth as Energy Security Concerns Intensify
- Bad Lauchstädt Produces First Green Hydrogen Ahead of 2027 Industrial Supply
- HyTerra Exits Nebraska Hydrogen Project and Defers Kansas Drilling to 2027
- Sahamco Advances $25 Billion Green Hydrogen and Ammonia Project in Morocco
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Battery Storage Moves to the Center of Renewable Energy Growth as Energy Security Concerns Intensify
The International Energy Agency (IEA), in its Renewables 2026 report, identifies energy security as a major driver of renewable deployment, while highlighting the growing need for storage and flexibility as solar and wind take a larger share of electricity generation.
Germany’s 30 MW Bad Lauchstädt energy park has produced its first green hydrogen, marking the start of integrated testing across a value chain designed to connect renewable electricity generation with industrial demand.
HyTerra is withdrawing from its natural hydrogen project in Nebraska and concentrating its exploration budget on the wholly owned Kansas Rift Play, while postponing its next planned well until 2027.
Sahamco Holding BV has completed advanced pre-feasibility studies for the first phase of a planned $25 billion green hydrogen and renewable ammonia complex in Morocco’s Dakhla-Oued Eddahab region.
Portugal has launched competitive procedures to allocate up to 1,050 MVA of grid connection capacity to battery energy storage projects, marking its first auctions of this kind since 2021.
EU non-household electricity prices averaged EUR 0.18 per kWh in H1 2026, down 5.4% year on year, with 19 countries lower and 8 higher, Eurostat says.
India VGF scheme: the Cabinet approved Rs 14,500 crore for 92 GWh of grid storage, with a 40% domestic content rule for batteries and competitive bidding.
An Australian-developed electrolysis technology that uses industrial waste heat to reduce electricity consumption by around 30% is moving toward industrial testing, with a AUD 30 million pilot plant planned in Victoria.
Ford Energy Secures DESRI Partnership as It Targets 20 GWh of Battery Storage Capacity
Ford Energy is targeting annual production capacity of at least 20 GWh at its repurposed Glendale, Kentucky, battery plant and has partnered with renewable energy developer DESRI to deploy its battery storage systems across utility-scale solar projects and other applications in the United States.
Asahi Kasei and US-based Power to Hydrogen (P2H2) are evaluating the scale-up and commercialization of anion exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolysis.
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