Storage

Energy Storage Project

Texas Battery Boom: Securing Grid, Reducing Emissions,

The growth in battery storage has demonstrated its importance in assisting Texas to withstand the increasingly common heatwaves without depending on extra fossi…

Nuclear Fuel

Texas Nuclear Waste Storage Permit Invalidated by US Appeals Court

A U.S. appeals court on Friday canceled a license granted by a federal agency to a company to build a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in western Texas,…

Nuclear waste

Xcel Gets Approval to Expand Used Fuel Storage at Monticello

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved Xcel Energy's application to allow increased storage of used nuclear fuel at the Monticello nuc…

Energy Storage Project

Engie to Acquire US Battery Storage Company Broad Reach Power

Broad Reach Power owns an energy storage portfolio of 350MW in operation and 880MW in construction. Credit: petrmalinak/Shutterstock.com.French utility company …

Hydropower Plant

Sabah to Build RM4B Hydroelectric Dam in Ulu Padas, Tenom to Resolve Water Woes

Pix credit: Hajiji Haji Noor FBPAPAR: The Sabah government will build a RM4 billion hydroelectric dam in Ulu Padas, Tenom as a long-term solution to the water w…

Battery

Organic Cell Based on Htl Made of Indium Chloride Layer Achieves 18.92% Efficiency

Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have fabricated an organic solar cell (OSC) based on an indium tin oxide (ITO) hole transport layer (HTL) modifie…

Carbon Emissions

Biden Administration Pledges $1.2bn for World's Largest DAC Plants

The US Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced $1.2bn of investment in two commercial-scale direct air capture (DAC) facilities in the states of Texas an…

Solar Battery (Storage)

RWE Builds Solar-Storage Plant in Opencast Mine

RWE is continuing to progress full speed ahead on green electricity production in the Rhenish mining district. Construction of a photovoltaics (PV) plant with i…

Energy Storage Project

SK on to Invest up to KRW 1.5t (Us$1.1b) In Battery Manufacturing Expansion in Seosan City

SK On will make a KRW 1.5-trillion (US$1.1-billion) investment in its domestic battery production base in Seosan, South Korea, paving the way for the completion…

SMR

Grafenrheinfeld Reaches New Decommissioning Milestone

The process of treating, cleaning and emptying the 14-metre-deep fuel element storage pool at the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant in Germany has been comple…

Energy Storage Project

Scientists Invent Micrometers-Thin Battery Charged by Saline Solution That Could Power Smart Contact Lenses

Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a flexible battery as thin as a human cornea, which stores electricity when it is immersed in saline solution, and …

Energy Storage Project

Engie Acquiring Broad Reach Power's Battery Storage Business

French multinational utility ENGIE has agreed to buy the battery storage business of Houston-based Broad Reach Power from its co-investment partners Yorktown Pa…

Energy Storage Project

Engie Strikes $1.6 Billion US Battery Deal With Apollo, Encap

A logo on the Engie SA headquarters in the La Defense business district in Paris, France, on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. The shift of jobs and assets to Paris afte…

Energy Storage Project

Engie to Acquire Texas-Based Power Storage Firm Broad Reach Power

The logo of Engie is seen at a charging station for electric vehicles in Guignicourt, France, January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo Acquire Lice…

Solid-State Batteries

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies Launching Customized 3D Safety Components for Batteries

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has developed thermal barriers that help to slow down thermal runaway in Li-ion batteries by increasing resistance to propagati…