Grid operators are racing to keep up with a surge of renewable power and a wave of electricity-guzzling data centers, and the old toolkit of short-duration lithium packs and gas peaker plants is no ...
Iron-sodium batteries have quietly crossed a threshold that grid planners have been waiting on for years: a full-scale system has cleared factory testing and is now considered ready to move from the ...
Peak Energy shipped out its first sodium-ion battery energy storage system, and the Burlingame, California-based company says it’s achieved a first in three ways: the US’s first grid-scale sodium-ion ...
Peak Energy just switched on a 3.5 MWh sodium-ion battery, the largest sodium-ion energy storage project developed in the US. The system is the first of its kind at grid scale, and may eventually be a ...
Global grid-connected battery energy storage system (BESS) installations have reached 156 GWh through October 2025, up 38% year-on-year compared with the same period in 2024, according to the latest ...
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The tricky thing about generating electricity is that for the most part, you pretty much have to use it or lose it.
Grid batteries could back up wind and solar and they’re becoming more affordable. Large-scale batteries on our power grid could balance the intermittency of wind and solar, along with the normal ...
This giant bubble on the island of Sardinia holds 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. But the gas wasn’t captured from factory emissions, nor was it pulled from the air. It came from a gas supplier, and ...
SMA America announced it released the Sunny Central Storage UP-S, a grid-scale battery inverter, now available in the United States. Designed for large-scale storage projects, the inverter features a ...