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The strategic recalibration underway at Korea’s leading battery manufacturers reflects a hard data point confronting the North American market. After years of capacity expansion tied to electric vehicle growth forecasts, US automakers are now pulling back.

Samsung SDI and Korea East-West Power have signed a memorandum of understanding at the StarPlus Energy facility in Indiana, marking a strategic collaboration aimed at accelerating energy storage system (ESS) deployment and renewable energy initiatives globally.

After more than five years of stalled progress, construction has officially begun on a large-scale green hydrogen and renewable energy project in South Taranaki, underpinned by a NZD 19.9 million government investment and a total project budget estimated at up to NZD 112.3 million.

China has developed a compressed air energy storage compressor exceeding 100 megawatts of single-unit power, a scale that begins to address one of the core constraints of CAES deployment.

Ford Motor is in discussions with Chinese automaker BYD over a potential battery supply partnership for some of its hybrid vehicle models, a move that could address a critical bottleneck as the U.S. company shifts focus from full electric vehicles toward hybrids.

Global renewable energy capacity continued to expand at record pace in 2024, yet employment growth lagged far behind, rising just 2.3 percent year on year to 16.6 million jobs, according to the Renewable Energy and Jobs Annual Review 2025 published by the International Renewable Energy Agency and the International Labour Organization.

China’s power grid operators have reduced fault response times to roughly 0.1 seconds, a performance threshold that highlights how system stability, rather than generation capacity alone, is becoming the limiting factor in highly electrified economies.

China’s first commercial land based small modular reactor moved closer to grid operation in December after the ACP100 demonstration project at Changjiang in Hainan completed its non nuclear turbine steam run on the first attempt, according to China National Nuclear Corporation.

China has sharply criticised the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), describing aspects of the scheme as discriminatory and misaligned with the country’s green development progress.

Davao City is confronting a mounting waste crisis as daily collections near 800 tons, raising urgent questions about the sustainability of its sanitary landfill.