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.
The founder of Europe’s largest second-life storage factory says the model lost to cheaper new cells, and that is good news: Germany needs about 100 GWh of stationary storage by 2030 against about 25 GWh installed, and prices keep falling.
The Gangwon Free Economic Zone Authority opened its eighth call for hydrogen investors in the Bukpyeong district, with applications from 19 to 21 October and priority entry to a long term lease complex for selected companies.
A Chungbuk provincial council committee passed a full rewrite of the province’s hydrogen industry ordinance on 14 October, adding a five year plan, a promotion centre and support from production to use, with a final vote due on 21 October.
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.
Heli Austria and Heli Werk offer an EASA approved upgrade that replaces the Airbus EC135 NiCad main battery with a True Blue Power TB30 or TB40 lithium-ion unit, up to 19.8 kg lighter, with price and maintenance figures undisclosed.
BCA Industries has designed a mobile battery recycling system on two semitrailers that it says captures about half the available high purity black mass on site, but throughput, cost and regulatory status are not disclosed.
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.
Parapet and MetaWealth began building the 50 MW/100 MWh Dumbrava battery in Romania, with commercial operation now targeted for April 2027 against a first plan of the fourth quarter of 2026.
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.
