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Tesla has announced the Powerwall 3P, a new variant of its home battery with a native three-phase inverter built into a single unit. The product, announced for the German market first, eliminates the clunky workaround that previously required European homeowners to install up to three separate Powerwalls to achieve whole-home backup on the continent’s standard three-phase residential grids. Sign-ups are now live on Tesla’s website. more…
Valent Energy has received development approval from the New South Wales government and satisfied AEMO grid compliance requirements under clause 5.3.4a for its 150MW/437MWh Armidale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS).
MAN showed off the megawatt charging capabilities of its eTruck electric semi this week in the brutal, blistering cold weather conditions at the Kempower MCS Live Winter Days 2026 event in Norrköping, Sweden. more…
Germany's BESS market is booming but is still far behind what it is needed for its energy transition. 2026 will be a key year in this regard with several key regulatory questions potentially clarified, writes energy transition comms executive Frederik König.
Tesla is set to officially launch its first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) programme in Texas, US, soon with eyes to expand into California.
The world of batteries needs alternative chemistries to skirt weaknesses with lithium-ion. Sodium-ion is a big hope, and in portable power, Bluetti’s new product shows promise, and limitations.
NSW concludes Australia's largest LDES tender, awarding six battery projects 12GWh. Industry calls it "game-changer" for grid reliability.
The Victoria government has approved two large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 700MW through its Development Facilitation Program (DFP).
XCMG celebrated the launch of its new, massive XC9260BEWL and XC9260BEWD lines by delivering one of each to Australian mining giant, Fortescue – part of a record-setting $400 million electric equipment order meant to help slash the company’s carbon emissions. more…
Developer Akaysha Energy has submitted a 1.6GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project to Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.
Major Australian energy generator-retailer EnergyAustralia has reached financial close on its 250MWh Hallett battery energy storage system (BESS) in South Australia.
ASL (formerly AEMO Services) has completed New South Wales' (NSW) largest-ever tender for long-duration energy storage (LDES), contracting six new battery projects for a combined 1.17GW/11.98GWh.
Iberdrola Australia has officially opened its 65MW/130MWh Smithfield BESS in western Sydney, New South Wales, ahead of schedule.
CleanCo Queensland has officially opened the Swanbank BESS, a 250MW/500MWh facility in Ipswich, Australia.
Thimo Mueller of ASL discusses the recent 12GWh LDES tender in New South Wales, Australia, with ESN Premium.
Sam Markham of Fluence Australia believes grid-forming BESS are essential to deliver a safe, secure and affordable decarbonised power system.
Washington, DC, just launched a curbside charging pilot to install public EV chargers on residential streets across all eight wards. The goal is to make charging easier for people who don’t have a driveway or garage and figure out how to scale curbside charging citywide. more…
“Standalone solar is not dead, but it is challenging,” said Pierre Bartholin, head of power hedging at investor Nuveen Infrastructure, opening the debate at Solar Media’s Solar Finance Investment Europe (SFIE) conference in London on the future of co-located battery storage.
State-owned energy company Synergy has completed the 500MW/2,400MWh Collie Battery Energy Storage System (CBESS) in Western Australia, establishing Collie as home to Australia's largest operational battery energy storage system (BESS).
The NSW government has declared two pumped hydro projects totalling 22,000MWh of storage capacity as critical infrastructure.
Octopus Australia has announced plans to develop what it claims is Australia's “largest planned battery energy storage system (BESS)” in New South Wales.
Energy infrastructure platform Revera Energy has completed an expanded US$150 million credit facility to accelerate development and construction of its battery storage, solar, and green hydrogen project pipeline across Australia and the UK.
Energy storage developer and system integrator Energy Vault and sodium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) startup Peak Energy have announced a 1.5GWh strategic development agreement.
Europe’s residential solar market is shifting from rapid rooftop PV growth to a more selective phase, with declining new installations but rising demand for upgrades like storage, smart energy management, EV integration, and balcony systems. Rather than retreating, households are reinvesting in complementary technologies that enhance flexibility, reliability, and self-consumption, redefining residential demand around integrated, intelligent energy solutions.
In what would be a “watershed moment,” Ford’s CEO, Jim Farley, reportedly spoke with the Trump Administration about partnering with Chinese EV makers in the US. more…
Global investment firm KKR has announced a strategic partnership with HMC Capital, committing up to AU$603 million (US$423 million) to HMC's Energy Transition Platform as Australia accelerates its renewable energy deployment and grid modernisation efforts.
This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes a fun new automatic shifting e-bike from Trek, a whole host of potential new e-bike laws from around the US, a study that shows the impacts of e-bike use on the brain, Fly mopeds get in more trouble, Honda has a new low-cost electric motorcycle design, and more. more…
That was the view of Søren Juel Hansen, energy storage director at Nordic Solar, when asked by Energy-Storage.news about the role of transmission system operators (TSO) in the industry.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has invested €24 million (US$28 million) in cloud-based battery data analytics provider TWAICE.
System integrator Fluence saw revenue of US$475.2 million in the last quarter of 2025, while its net loss grew around 10% to US$62.6 million.
Carrie Xiao examines some notable recent partnerships and supply agreements for Chinese energy storage players in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Australia.
Australian company VE Motion has taken the wraps off its first commercially available battery powered trailer system for heavy trucks, offering fleets a low-cost path to electrification that can cut drivers’ fuel use by up to 50%. more…
LG Energy Solution will keep global battery cell production at around 300GWh in 2026, while increasing its proportion of supply for energy storage system (ESS) applications.
Energy storage developer NineDot Energy closes US$431 million in construction financing for New York BESS projects. Meanwhile, US energy efficiency and renewables company Ameresco completes multiple tax credit transfer and financing transactions for solar PV and BESS.
IPP Enlight Renewable Energy has reached development milestones for its total 1.21GW solar plus 4GWh energy storage CO Bar Complex in Arizona, US, and is now advancing the project toward operation.
A framework for the “development, utilisation and commercialisation of energy storage systems” in the Philippines has been passed by the House of Representatives.
Potentia Renewables has successfully closed financing for the Skyview 2 battery energy storage system (BESS) in Edwardsburgh Cardinal, Ontario, Canada.
Energy-Storage.news Premium hears from Giovanni Damato, President of organic flow battery company CMBlu Energy, Inc., on changes to FEOC and Section 301 tariffs.
Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks to Daniel Dedrick, US-based BESS developer and operator, GridStor's CTO, about the company’s strategies for navigating FEOC and Section 301 tariffs.
Owner-operator Fidra Energy came out of virtually nowhere to be building one of Europe's largest BESS in the UK, the 1.4GW/3.1GWh Thorpe Marsh project. We catch up with CEO Chris Elder, about its strategy and projects but also broader BESS and clean energy financing trends.
Two BESS projects in Yuma County, Arizona, one from BrightNight, and one from Leeward Renewable Energy, have reached significant milestones.
A 100MW/200MWh BESS project in Estonia has been inaugurated by Baltic Storage Platform (BSP), a joint venture (JV) between Baltic developer Evecon, French independent power producer (IPP) Corsica Sole and investment manager Mirova.
With battery storage safety under increasing scrutiny, Wanxiang A123 Systems and Hithium have unveiled new products and large-scale fire testing (LSFT), respectively.
Software-focused battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator FlexGen has put two utility-scale BESS projects in operation in Wisconsin and Iowa, US, totalling 700MWh.
1.2 million EVs were sold globally in January – but the market shrank. Global EV sales fell 3% year-over-year and 44% in January 2026 from December to 1.2 million units, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. The slowdown was largely driven by China, where sales dropped after new taxes and weaker incentives kicked in. more…
Tesla launched its “Robotaxi” service in Austin eight months ago. In that time, Elon Musk promised 500 cars in Austin, coverage for half the US population, fully unsupervised rides, and expansion to 8-10 cities, all by the end of 2025. None of it happened. Today, the service has roughly 42 cars in Austin, availability below 20%, a crash rate 9 times worse than human drivers, and the “unsupervised” rides Musk hyped before earnings have vanished from the tracker. Here’s the full status check. more
EVE Energy says a 200 MW/400 MWh battery energy storage project in China has entered operation, which it describes as the world’s first utility-scale deployment of 628 Ah lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells.
LG ES Vertech, the US-based system integrator subsidiary of LG Energy Solution (LG ES), plans to deliver 50GWh of projects this year, ESN Premium has heard.
Home battery storage and virtual power plant (VPP) specialist Lunar Energy has raised US$102 million in an oversubscribed Series D financing round led by B Capital and Prelude Ventures.
Energy storage developer-operator Aypa Power has closed a US$1.5 billion construction warehouse revolving credit facility to advance projects across the US.
A US$30 billion infrastructure giant has just backed a partnership to bring 3.5GW of solar and energy storage to North America.
Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Noon Energy co-founder and CEO Chris Graves about the company’s approach to long-duration energy storage.
Netherlands-based iron-air long-duration energy storage (LDES) startup Ore Energy has completed a grid-connected pilot of its 100-hour iron-air LDES system at EDF Lab les Renardières in France.
Europe’s energy storage market has hit a turning point. What was once a scattered, early-phase market featuring pilot projects and daring developers has swiftly evolved into a dynamic, capital-intensive infrastructure sector, writes Wood Mackenzie research associate Cecilie Kristiansen.
Naos‑1 is described as South Africa’s biggest private utility‑scale solar and battery storage project, designed to wheel power to industrial customers.
Commissioning is often an underestimated final step in the hard work it takes to bring a BESS project online, writes Lynn Appollis-Laurent of Camelot Energy.
Mercedes-Benz’ truck division has reached a major milestone in their South American expansion, delivering their first, eActros 600 electric semi truck in Chile earlier this week. more…
South Korean battery and electronics materials manufacturer Samsung SDI and South Korean state-utility Korea East-West Power (EWP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop and invest in global energy storage systems (ESS) and renewable energy projects.
E-Storage, Canadian Solar's energy storage subsidiary and owner and operator Sunraycer Renewables have entered into agreements for the supply and long-term servicing of two battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Franklin County, Texas, US.
A busy week of grid-scale BESS project news from Germany, with numerous development, project, optimisation and tolling partnerships announced.
Risen Energy says its new 131 kW/261 kWh commercial storage unit uses silicon carbide and full liquid cooling to improve efficiency, maintain output in hot conditions, and speed up installation.
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that most of Australia experienced above-average solar irradiance in January 2026 due to a hot, dry airmass and clear skies, boosting PV generation despite operational challenges from elevated temperatures, bushfire smoke, and dust. In contrast, northern Queensland and far northern regions saw significant irradiance deficits from persistent monsoonal clouds and Tropical Cyclone Koji, causing widespread rainfall and localized
A 582MWh battery storage project and a gigawatt-hour-scale thermal energy storage system are the latest big developments in the emerging Baltic region, north-eastern Europe.
In July, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a plan to delete its scientific finding recognizing that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health, with the goal of making cars less efficient, deadlier and more costly. Public comments widely opposed the plan, but now before the agency has barely even started reading those comments, it announced today that it’s going through with its illegal plan anyway. (Update: This article has been updated to reflect that the finalization was annou
Located at Helix water district’s operations center in El Cajon, California, the project supports the district’s full transition to zero-emission vehicles while maintaining the reliability required of a mission-critical public utility. To keep it all running smoothly, the district has deployed Better Fleet’s advanced managed charging software solution – and we’ve got the company’s CEO, Dan Hilson, to walk us through it. more…
Chinese battery manufacturer EVE Energy has secured a contract with the Malaysian government to deploy an AC/DC integrated 36MWh solar-plus-storage system at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
Chinese-based OEM Sungrow will build a PV inverter and battery storage manufacturing facility in southwest Poland, its first outside Asia.
The Chinese manufacturer said its 15 kW three-phase low-voltage hybrid inverter is paired with the stackable BP5000 5 kWh battery supporting up to 120 kWh. It features three MPPTs, 150% oversized PV input, and smart load management for optimized self-consumption.
The Song Ultra EV is the first B-segment electric SUV under BYD’s Dynasty lineup. BYD’s new EV SUV offers over 440 miles (710 km) of driving range, and it only costs $26,000. more…
Three Chinese energy storage companies have recently successively filed or updated their listing applications with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), planning IPOs on the Hong Kong Main Board.
Refrigerated trailers are critical for hauling your fresh food and flowers from the farm to your local market – the problem is that they pollute like crazy, powered by red-dye diesel gensets that run around the clock, even when the truck pulling them is fully electric. To help solve that problem, one company come up with an idea so obvious you’ll hate yourself for not coming up with it on your own: rooftop solar. more…
A Tesla owner says his car tried to drive him into a lake while using the automaker’s latest “Full Self-Driving” software. The incident, captured on video and posted to social media, has gone viral with over 1 million views, adding to a growing list of dangerous FSD edge cases that raise serious questions about the system’s readiness. more…
After it was outsold by China’s BYD globally for the first time last year, CEO Jim Farley said Ford “isn’t backing away from EVs.” It’s betting on more affordable models that will start at around $30,000. more…
Rivian has just posted its letter to shareholders and earnings report, detailing its financial results and other accomplishments for Q4 2025 and the previous fiscal year. more…
Hyundai’s upcoming electric vehicles will look nothing like what’s on the market today. Like the IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 9, Hyundai says its new EVs will stand out with a distinct design. more…
Leading today’s Green Deals is the exclusive $1,500 discount on the Gendome Home3000 Portable Power Station that features a 50-minute AC fast-charge, wind charging functionality, smart home integration, and more – all at a new $799 low. Right behind it we have NIU’s Valentine’s Day e-scooter sale that dropped the KQi 300X All-Terrain Suspension Electric Scooter to a new $727 low, as well as EcoFlow’s latest 24-hour flash sale on the DELTA 3 Classic power station, a 400W DELTA 3 Max solar bundle,
Waymo is now running its 6th-generation Driver without safety drivers on public roads, marking the beginning of fully autonomous operations with the company’s latest and most cost-effective hardware stack. The announcement, authored by Waymo VP of Engineering Satish Jeyachandran, confirms that the 6th-generation system, first unveiled in August 2024, is now validated for driverless operations across multiple cities. Waymo describes it as the product of seven years of service and nearly 200 mill
I’ve spent countless hours here at Electrek doing detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through thousands of miles of riding, I’ve been fortunate to learn these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That long-term experience with real-world e-bike testing has helped me find the best electric bicycles on the market for just about any budget. Below are some of the top e-bikes I’ve hand-tested for every price range, current as of February 2026. While some of us
The Philippines has unveiled plans for its next four green energy auctions, one of which will focus on rooftop solar and solar-plus-storage in selected areas of the country. Another forthcoming auction will concentrate on solar on canals, agrisolar and solar on stilts over fish ponds.
Royal Enfield has offered a clearer timeline for its long-awaited first electric motorcycle. During a recent earnings call, CEO B. Govindarajan said the company’s new Flying Flea C6 is “almost ready for production” and that “you will see it in the next quarter time window,” signaling a launch that now appears set for early 2026. more…
India added 36.6 GW of solar capacity in 2025, up 43% from the previous year, with large-scale projects accounting for 81% of installations, according to Mercom India.
The London Borough of Harrow is installing 500 new curbside EV chargers across the borough, targeting residents who don’t have access to off-street parking. The chargers are being deployed in partnership with UK charging provider char.gy and will primarily be mounted on existing lamp posts along residential streets. more…
Is Hyundai bringing the Crater Concept to life? A covered electric SUV was spotted in the wild, which could give us our first clue. more…
Wagons are making a comeback in electric form. Although Volvo is set to produce its last wagon this April, it could return as an EV. more…
This week Women in Solar+ Europe gives voice to Iualia Meirosu, Group CFO & Board Member at Romania's Enexus. She says that Romania’s renewable energy sector is no longer just for engineers - it’s a space where women and men can thrive across operations, finance, strategy, and project management.
A new Hyundai prototype was caught testing in public, believed to be the IONIQ 1, Hyundai’s smallest and most affordable EV yet. more…
The EV5, Kia’s new midsize electric SUV, is getting an overhaul. While the exterior already looks improved, the interior offers an unexpected surprise. more…
The A2 e-tron is set to debut soon as a sibling to the Volkswagen ID.3 and Audi’s most affordable EV yet. Unlike the Q4 e-tron, the new entry-level EV has its own unique look. more…
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the Tesla Semi, Toyota Highlander EV, Rivian R2, Ferrari Luce, and more. more…
Our Presidents Day Green Deals are loaded up with a solid collection of deals/sales, especially on e-bikes and power stations. Leading our top three, things start with the premium Segway Xyber Electric Bike at a new $2,900 low, while the latest Jackery Explorer 1500 Ultra Portable Power Station has fallen to $949, and Velotric is offering the return of its T1 ST Plus Urban e-bike bundled with a range extender battery at its $1,299 yearly low. From there, we also have EcoFlow’s latest 48-hour fla
Tesla’s US sales fell an estimated 17% year-over-year in January 2026, according to registration data from Motor Intelligence. The automaker moved an estimated 40,100 vehicles during the month, down from 48,500 in January 2025. Tesla doesn’t report monthly US sales figures, so third-party registration estimates are the best available proxy — and they point to a fourth consecutive month of declining domestic demand. more…
The new electric SUV from Audi’s Chinese AUDI brand is being billed as the most important launch in the young company’s history, and it’s set to make its official debut in production form this April – but thanks to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), you can see it right now. more…
The wireless charging experts at WiTricity claim their newest wireless charging pad solution will eliminate the sort of, “Did I remember to charge?” worries that plague retirement communities and golf enthusiasts everywhere. more…
Japanese researchers used supercomputer simulations to reveal how sodium ions form clusters and move within hard carbon anodes, identifying nanopore sizes and transition regions that control diffusion and rate performance in sodium-ion batteries. Their findings offer design guidelines for optimizing hard-carbon anodes to improve energy density, cycling, and commercialization prospects.
The GV90, the most lavish Genesis SUV to date, is almost here. With its global debut coming up, the GV90 was seen sporting a new royal green-like color for the first time. more…
We’ve got some big deals leading our end-of-the week Green Deals, with Lectric launching its official Presidents Day Sale that has increased e-bike savings up to $893 – all starting from $999. Right behind that, we have Segway Navimow officially launching its newest i2 series and X4 series robot lawn mowers with up to $300 savings and FREE gear starting from $899. There’s also EcoFlow’s 72-hour Valentine’s Day flash sale closing out the overall event with the weekend, offering the DELTA 2 Portab
With the new Highlander EV arriving later this year, Toyota will have a full lineup of electric SUVs. Toyota believes the new EVs fill a key gap in its lineup and will help it gain a bigger share of the market. more…
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has repealed the 2009 Endangerment Finding that classified greenhouse gases as a threat to public health, removing the legal basis used to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act.
France’s new Multiannual Energy Program sets a 48 GW solar target for 2030 and outlines 2.9 GW of tenders through 2028, with industry saying the framework restores investment visibility and supports gigafactory plans.
In its first monthly column for pv magazine, the Becquerel Institute explains how solar PV continues its global expansion despite political uncertainty and market turbulence. In Europe, 2025 was a record year — but the underlying dynamics are becoming increasingly complex.
The China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNMIA) says wafer, cell and module prices remain stable, while industry operating rates are edging lower across leading and integrated manufacturers.
Merida is taking aim at the more budget-conscious end of the electric mountain bike market with the launch of its new ETMO range, described as the brand’s most price-focused Bosch-powered electric mountain bikes yet. Of course for big eMTB names like Merida, the idea of “affordable” becomes something of a relative term. more…
Kia opened the doors to its futuristic flagship store, where you can test drive, build, and personalize its newest EVs virtually before you decide to buy. more…
A company called Glydways is marking two significant milestones in bringing its Automated Transit Network (ATN) of autonomous vehicles to the masses. Glydways has announced new public transit projects in the US and the United Arab Emirates, where it plans to introduce its unique form of guided autonomy. more…
Germany's latest tender for large-scale PV project concluded with an average final price of €0.0500 ($0.0593)/kWh. The procurement exercise was largely oversubscribed.
The latest report from the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (PVPS) says second-life PV modules have the potential to reduce waste and extend the value of solar assets, but their market today remains underdeveloped and requires advances in technical qualifications, scalable reuse infrastructure and supportive policy frameworks.
Spain’s installed solar capacity reached 50 GW in early 2026 after adding about 8.7 GW in 2025, according to grid operator Red Eléctrica de España (REE).
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.
TotalEnergies just landed a massive solar deal to power Google’s expanding Texas data centers. The company signed two long‑term power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity, or about 28 terawatt‑hours of electricity over 15 years. more…
High-resistivity silicon wafers offer superior efficiency potential but are highly sensitive to edge recombination and mechanical damage, limiting their commercial use compared to more robust standard wafers. Researchers from Longi and Sun Yat-sen University demonstrated that integrating in-situ edge passivation unlocks this potential, significantly boosting back-contact solar cell fill factor and efficiency.
An interlaboratory comparison between the CalLab PV Modules of Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt finds the two organizations deviate by less than 0.15% when measuring the performance of photovoltaic modules. The Fraunhofer team says this is one of the most important indications as to whether their analysis is on the right track.
The Dutch spatial atomic layer deposition equipment manufacturer has launched a new sheet-to-sheet tool for pilot production of large area perovskite solar devices on glass substrates.
The Chinese supplier said the new product uses high-strength AL6005-T5 aluminum alloy and SUS304 stainless steel. It can be adjusted to a tilt angle of 0-15°.
Brazilian scientists have developed a slope-based framework for agrivoltaics, finding that sites below 15% gradient offer the best balance between agricultural suitability and technical feasibility. Their review of 30 studies shows that steeper terrain can host PV systems with adapted designs, land-use limits, erosion risks, and rising installation costs.
Researchers in Saudi Arabia conducted a year-long simulation of fixed-tilt PV panels at different azimuth angles, finding that south-facing panels (180°) maximize energy production, while up to 45° eastward shifts cause minimal losses.