SoftBank is moving beyond its traditional telecommunications and technology focus with plans to establish a domestic battery manufacturing business aimed at supporting AI-driven power demand.
Wholesale electricity prices in Greece are increasingly falling to zero or negative territory during daylight hours, forcing renewable energy curtailments across the grid and exposing a structural imbalance between renewable deployment and system flexibility.
Fortescue’s private mining grid in Western Australia is now operating with 2.3 GW of generation capacity and more than 5 GWh of battery storage, yet its most consequential shift is not scale but control.
Australia’s Capacity Investment Scheme is beginning to translate policy ambition into contracted capacity, with more than 2 GW of new renewable generation and nearly 500 MW of battery storage awarded across Western Australia at a time when the state is preparing to retire its remaining coal-fired power stations by 2030.
A 60 GWh supply agreement for sodium-ion batteries signals a shift in the global energy storage market, where reliance on lithium-based chemistries is increasingly being challenged by emerging alternatives. The three-year partnership between CATL and HyperStrong marks the largest sodium-ion battery deal announced to date, highlighting growing confidence in the technology’s readiness for large-scale deployment.
Research led by the University of Kentucky is exploring an alternative pathway by converting coal into high-purity synthetic graphite, aiming to establish a domestic source for a material that remains critical to battery performance.
A 350 MW / 1,243 MWh battery energy storage project at Hams Hall in North Warwickshire, developed by BW ESS in partnership with EDF, will ultimately expand to 400 MW / 1,424 MWh following a second phase of development.
China’s installed renewable energy capacity reached approximately 2.4 billion kilowatts by March 2026, accounting for more than 60 percent of total national power capacity, signaling a structural shift in the world’s largest electricity system.
Jinko ESS has signed a strategic cooperation agreement to deploy a 1 GWh portfolio of battery energy storage projects across the region, focused primarily on grid-side and utility-scale applications.
