Southern Power starts commercial operations at second phase of Millers Branch solar farm, signs seven-party VPPA

Southern Power has started commercial operations at the 180MW second phase of its Millers Branch Solar Facility in Haskell County, Texas.

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PJM’s big new data center plan: Make the states figure it out

Grid operator PJM wants states and utilities to hold data centers responsible for buying their own power — or risk being cut off from grid service.

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Base Power begins manufacturing 39.2-kWh residential battery in Texas

Virtual power plant (VPP) company Base Power announced it has raised $1 billion in Series D financing and will now get involved in residential battery

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Ørsted adds 500 MWh of Tesla BESS to ERCOT grid

Ørsted has reached commercial operations of the 500-MWh Old 300 Storage project in Needville, Texas. “Battery energy storage has played a large role in

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US startup LiNova Energy hopes high-power battery tech can meet unprecedented demands of AI data centres

ESN Premium speaks with Mike Nagus, CEO of LiNova Energy, about the company’s recently launched “metal-free polymer cathode” battery.

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Base Power raises $1B to get big batteries into more homes

The startup, newly valued at $13 billion, is now manufacturing batteries in Texas. It offers an affordable way for homeowners to get backup power and it…

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UNIGRID, Syntropic Power are planning US sodium-ion battery manufacturing

Sodium-ion battery cell developer UNIGRID announced it would share its sodium chromium oxide (NCO) design with Syntropic Power to establish U.S.

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Massachusetts issues RFP seeking 1,000MW of BESS

Massachusetts’s Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for 1,000MW of energy storage in the US state.

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MNRE adds 12.7GW of solar module capacity to ALMM-I, total listed capacity exceeds 217GW

MNRE has expanded the ALMM List-I by adding 12,724MW of solar module manufacturing capacity, taking the total enlisted capacity to 217,107MW.

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DYCM secures funding for 1GW module assembly plant in California

DYCM Solar Modules has closed an investment round to fund the growth of its business and its solar module assembly plant in California, US.

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Prosalia and EDP hybridise solar PV/wind projects with batteries in Portugal, Spain

Prosalia has commissioned a battery storage system at a solar PV plant in Portugal, while power group EDP has added one to a hybrid wind and solar project in Spain.

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EnergyAustralia admits breaching Electricity Retail Code over 33-day Solar Sharer Offer delay

EnergyAustralia has admitted breaching the Electricity Retail Code by failing to make the Solar Sharer Offer available from 1 July 2026.

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Australia to expand Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme to cover 1MW solar installations

Australia's federal government has announced it will expand the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme to cover solar installations of up to 1MW.

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Eindhoven University of Technology unveils solar-powered ambulance prototype

The Eindhoven University of Technology announced 'Stella Juva', a prototype of the world's first solar-powered ambulance.

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European multi-day energy storage startup Ore Energy raises US$43 million in Series A

Iron-air battery company Ore Energy has raised US$43 million in a Series A to commercialise its multi-day energy storage technology.

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Load smoothing, cold-start backup and speed-to-power: Fluence maps the battery storage opportunity for Australian data centres

ESN Premium speaks with Fluence's Jeff Monday and Sam Markham on the opportunity battery energy storage could provide data centres.

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Habitat Energy appointed to optimise DC-coupled 614MWh solar-plus-storage portfolio for Octopus Australia

Habitat Energy has been appointed by Octopus Australia to provide optimisation services for two DC-coupled solar-plus-storage sites.

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Rooftop solar deployment could drive savings in Bangladesh, according to IEEFA

More widespread deployment of rooftop solar PV projects in Bangladesh could save consumers up to US$0.061/kWh, according to IEEFA.

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Kosol Energie launches hail-resistant module

Indian solar module manufacturer Kosol Energie has launched a new n-type glass-glass hail-resistant module.

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Court rules against Trump EPA’s freeze of $20B in ‘green bank’ funds

A federal appeals court finds the EPA acted improperly in terminating grants to boost clean energy projects. The Trump administration may appeal to the…

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Google, RWE ink 155MW solar PV PPA in Oklahoma

Solar developer RWE has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with tech giant Google to power data centre operations in Oklahoma, US.

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