Category: Clean Power & Energy Storage

Approaches to Wildfire Risk in the Northeast: Situational Awareness and Emergency Management session will detail how Avangrid successfully adapted western wildfire risk models for northeastern environments. Source: Renewable Energy World.

The Energy Department will invest nearly $2 billion in 31 projects across 26 states to enhance the power grid, increasing capacity by over 23 gigawatts. Source: Renewable Energy World.

This episode of the Factor This Policycast explores how customer-sited technologies, including batteries, smart thermostats, backup generators, microgrids, rooftop solar, and flexible load, can be aggregated and operated as dependable grid assets.

Market research firm Wood Mackenzie stated that data centre buildout is uplifting the US battery energy storage system (BESS) outlook across all segments. Source: Energy Storage News.

We recently caught up with Georg Gallmetzer, managing director of German BESS platform Eco Stor, about the firm’s role in formulating flexible connection agreements (FCAs) and how this was intimately tied to the debate…

Two Victorian battery storage projects have reached new construction and commissioning milestones this week, both connecting to the National Electricity Market (NEM) in Australia. Source: Energy Storage News.

Sustained disruption could provide the push needed to rebuild our energy systems faster, laying the groundwork for lasting stability, writes contributor Frédéric Godemel of Schneider Electric. Source: Renewable Energy World.

GridStor, a US-based developer and operator of grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) has closed a US$220 million financing agreement for the 100MW/400MWh White Tank project in Arizona, US. Source: Energy Storage News.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced over $99 million for 21 geothermal energy projects across the United States to advance technology and exploration. Source: Renewable Energy World.

Residential battery energy storage systems (BESS) across California discharged more than 580MW of peak power to the state’s grid on the evening of 9 September 2026 via a Tesla-Sunrun VPP. Source: Energy Storage News.

During a heat wave on the evening of September 9, 2026, Sunrun and Tesla dispatched more than 580 megawatts to the California grid in the largest VPP demonstration to date. Source: Renewable Energy World.

The U.S. Senate has passed the Hydropower Relicensing Transparency Act, aimed at improving hydropower licensing efficiency. Source: Renewable Energy World.