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Peru is moving from pilot level battery deployment toward a regulatory framework that could determine how battery energy storage systems…

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.

Europe’s green hydrogen strategy is rapidly becoming a foreign policy instrument, but the emerging network of partnerships with the Middle East, North Africa and Sub Saharan Africa remains far smaller and less institutionalized than the political rhetoric surrounding it suggests.

The new Kawasaki facilities are being built to produce at least 2 gigawatts each of electrolysis cell frames and membranes…

The investment announced for Hefei is smaller than the $457 million Hitachi Energy is spending on a single transformer factory…

The announcement discloses a 5 megawatt-hour nominal capacity per unit, no total project size, no customer name, and no site…