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United States

Voltus Acquires Brightfield AI to Accelerate Energy Storage Deployment

Voltus, Inc., the leading virtual power plant (VPP) operator and distributed energy resource (DER) platform, announced on June 10 its acquisition of Brightfield…

United States

GM to offer EV owners ability to sell power to US electricity grid

General Motors is releasing a software update that allows some U.S. electric-vehicle owners ​to pipe power back to the electric grid, another example ‌of …

Turkey

Dummy Fuel Assemblies Loading Operation Completed at Akkuyu NPP Unit 1

June 09, 2026 – Dummy fuel assemblies loading operation into the reactor vessel of Unit 1 of Akkuyu NPP (under construction by Rosatom State Corporation) …

China

Failure Rate Dropped from Industry Average 18% to 0.3%: Zhang Ying Reshapes Industrial Measurement Reliability Standards with Ultra-High-Temperature Molten Salt Measurement Technology

In the industrial measurement and control and energy equipment sector, long-standing pain points—including measurement instability under ultra-high-temperature…

Egypt

Alcazar Energy secures $420m deal to manage Egypt’s Gabal El Zeit wind farm

Egypt signed investment, operation, and power purchase agreements worth $420m with Alcazar Energy for the 580-megawatt (MW) Gabal El Zeit wind power plant, the …

Gas turbine engine

US lab’s rotating detonation engine breakthrough could boost gas turbine efficiency

Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have designed and tested a key component for rotating detonation engines (RDEs), an emerging com…

United States

Trump announces $700M coal industry investment, supporting Wyoming mines

Gov. Mark Gordon joined President Donald Trump in the Oval Office as the president announced a $700 million investment intended to support the nation’s cl…

China

Chinese battery maker CATL expects energy storage to make up half of global sales by 2030

China's CATL , the world's biggest battery maker, expects energy storage to account for half of its global sales by 2030, up from ​25% now, a company e…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Samsung Wins Volkswagen EV Battery Supply Deal

Samsung SDI has secured another major electric vehicle battery supply deal following its recent contract with Mercedes-Benz, this time with Volkswagen Group.Sam…

Japan

Baseload Capital and Furusato Netsuden demonstrate scalable geothermal growth model in Japan

With the completion of the Waita No. 2 geothermal power plant in Kumamoto Prefecture, Baseload Capital and Furusato Netsuden are positioning Japan as a breakthr…

Japan

Maxell to Begin Joint Research with JAXA on All-Solid-State Battery Technology

Maxell has been selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for its JAXA Space Technologies Rapid Evaluation Program on Small Satellite (JAXA-STEP…

United States

esVolta Secures Upsized Corporate Credit Facility to Support Expansion of Energy Storage Portfolio

esVolt, a leading developer, owner, and operator of utility-scale battery energy storage projects across North America, announced on June 3 that it closed an ex…

United States

Google, Voltus partner on US power grid project

Google and Voltus announced a three-year agreement to unlock up to 100 megawatts (MW) of new electricity capacity from flexible distributed energy resources in …

China

Xudabao Nuclear Plant: Unit 3 Passes Hot Tests, Unit 2 Vessel in Place

Hot functional tests have been completed at unit 3 of the Xudabao nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning Province ahead of the reactor's start up, whil…

Combined cycle power plant

KEPCO Secures Saudi Jafurah Phase 2 Power Project

KEPCO has secured the second phase of the Saudi Arabia’s Jafurah, Jafurah combined cycle power project, following the first phase. KEPCO announced on the …