Batteries and Storage Switzerland’s New ‘Largest’ Battery Plant Is Smaller Than One Existing Pumped Hydro FacilityBy Arnes Biogradlija09/09/2026 The 58.6-megawatt battery complex Axpo and Energie Uri inaugurated in Gurtnellen this week is described as Switzerland’s largest battery storage…
Batteries and Storage Sumitomo’s New Flow Battery Targets a Niche Vanadium Still Hasn’t Won From LithiumBy Arnes Biogradlija08/09/2026 Vanadium redox flow batteries had reached only about 1.6 gigawatt-hours of cumulative global deployment by early 2026, roughly 1.5% of…
Power Grids and Data Centers Europe’s Balancing Market Sometimes Charges More to Cut Power Than to Add ItBy Arnes Biogradlija08/09/2026 On April 1, 2026, between midnight and 12:15 a.m., Belgium’s cross-border marginal aFRR price for reducing power output averaged 132…
Analysis and Opinion Google’s Nearly 1 Gigawatt Geothermal Bet Rests on a Project That Hasn’t Delivered Power YetBy Arnes Biogradlija07/09/2026 Fervo Energy’s 396-megawatt power purchase agreement with Google, expandable to nearly 1 gigawatt by June 2030, is described as the…
Transportation AVILOO’s 500,000-Test EV Battery Study Comes From a Sample That Isn’t RandomBy Arnes Biogradlija07/09/2026 AVILOO’s newly published battery health rankings place the Mercedes-Benz EQA and Hyundai IONIQ 5 at the top after 150,000 kilometers…
Batteries and Storage Equinor’s Biggest US Battery Bets on Merchant ERCOT Revenue That’s Been CollapsingBy Arnes Biogradlija04/09/2026 Equinor’s Citrus Flatts Energy Center enters Texas’s grid on a fully merchant basis, with no long-term utility contract backing its…
Batteries and Storage Mexico Extends Energy Storage Deadline as Grid Pressures IntensifyBy EnergyNews.biz Newsroom03/09/2026 Mexico has extended the deadline for energy storage developers to register under its first strategic call for electricity storage, giving projects nearly two additional months to enter a program targeting 935 MW of storage capacity nationwide.
Batteries and Storage CORNEX’s Fast-Built Battery Plant Is a Small Piece of a 500 Gigawatt-Hour BetBy EnergyNews.biz Newsroom02/09/2026 CORNEX’s Xiangyang facility went from groundbreaking to first product in ten months, a genuine construction achievement the company says beat…
Batteries and Storage CATL’s Brazil Storage Push Tests What “Local Content” Actually MeansBy EnergyNews.biz Newsroom01/09/2026 Brazil’s December auction for battery storage capacity is really two auctions, one requiring proof of national content and one that…
Analysis and Opinion IEA Data Shows Clean Tech’s Trillion Dollar Market Still Runs on Chinese OvercapacityBy Arnes Biogradlija31/08/2026 Solar PV and battery manufacturing capacity already exceeded 2024 global demand by more than double and more than triple respectively,…
