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Competitive TCO, detailed specs and strong local presence key for BESS supplier success in Germany, RWE says
We hear from the BESS lead at RWE Renewables Europe & Australia ahead of the Energy Storage Summit Germany 2026, discussing the major trends, challenges and opportunities in the country’s grid-scale storage market.
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Sovereign enterprise: securing global business from space
How sovereign satellite connectivity can strengthen enterprise resilience and secure critical communications
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Firmus seeks $5bn raise in Australian IPO - report
Targeting an offering in October
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Iron Mountain sues UK's Home Office over £140m passport contract bid
Firm says it was unable to submit tender after government department quadrupled potential penalties at short notice
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Heca Data plans integrated zone for hyperscale data centers in Egypt
A delegation led by the data center developer’s CEO “voiced interest” in strengthening cooperation with the Egyptian government
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An Idaho county banned renewables. It’s having second thoughts.
This article was copublished with The Daily Yonder , a newsroom covering rural America. POCATELLO, Idaho — Jeff Hough did not pull any punches. What his fellow Republican county commissioners were about to do, he said to the packed courthouse, would violate America’s founding ideals. He quoted the Declaration of…
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Masdar, clean energy investor Luxcara form €5 billion partnership for Germany BESS and wind projects
UAE state-owned renewables company Masdar has partnered with Germany’s Luxcara for battery storage and wind energy projects.
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Power testing in the age of AI
Explore the next generation of power testing for the AI data center
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Turning utility customer affordability into action
The growing role of customer affordability in utility strategy, investment and long-term planning.
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The hidden cost of utility customer vulnerability
Affordability struggles are spreading. Is your utility built to catch them in time?
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Trina signs 1GWh MoU to help developer meet ‘unique technical and delivery requirements’ of Japan’s battery storage market
Trina Storage, the battery storage arm of major Chinese solar PV company Trinasolar, has signed a 1GWh MoU to supply products in Japan.
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Sponsored: Gerchamp launches modular AI data center to bring high-density compute to available power
AI infrastructure for sites with available power, with rapid deployment from factory-assembled systems
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Sponsored: When AI grows new limbs: The fiber scale out
The connectivity foundations for AI infrastructure at Corning’s fingertips
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Lava Blue commissions Australia’s first grid NAS battery as ZEBRE sees 360MWh BESS waved through EPBC Act
Lava Blue commissions Australia's first grid-connected sodium-sulfur BESS, while ZEBRE's 360MWh Noblevale BESS clears EPBC review.
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‘Not to the detriment of the market’: Eku Energy on Australia’s Capacity Investment Scheme
Eku Energy's Elias Saba discusses why he believes the CIS has not fundamentally changed the company's investment approach.
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Infineon RISC-V for Automotive at Hot Chips 2026
At Hot Chips 2026, Infineon presented a case for using RISC-V in various automotive processors in next-generation cars The post Infineon RISC-V for Automotive at Hot Chips 2026 appeared first on ServeTheHome .
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Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic
Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.
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Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock
Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.
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The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs
From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
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What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?
On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.
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Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.
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TechCrunch Mobility: Lyft has entered the robotaxi chat
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation, and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
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How retrofitting can help win the AI infrastructure race
Stop building, start upgrading
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Attackers already understand your software supply chain better than you do
And AI is only making these attackers smarter
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Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world
Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.
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From grid constraint to grid asset: Rethinking the path to data center power
Stop asking for permission and start offering solutions
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Sponsored: From pilot to production: Direct liquid cooling deployment risks in AI data center cooling
Examining the top eight challenges of direct liquid cooling vs air cooling data centers
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Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board
Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."
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d-Matrix Joins the NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Platform
d-Matrix and NVIDIA announced that d-Matrix will use NVLink Fusion to scale up and out with its next-gen Raptor AI accelerators The post d-Matrix Joins the NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Platform appeared first on ServeTheHome .
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026
While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.
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Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development
Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like?
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Tesla says it will finally unveil the second generation Roadster on October 1
Tesla’s halo sports car was first announced in November 2017.
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Sponsored: Making data centers ready for AI workloads with rack-level cooling
As AI matures and scales, organizations must decide: Where will these high-density workloads run?
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Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.
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xAI has quietly built a massive battery at its Memphis data center hub
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has built what may be the biggest battery in the U.S. at its controversial Memphis AI computing hub. The exact size of the battery is unclear. Canary Media counted 720 Tesla Megapack battery containers visible on the grounds of the Colossus 2 data center in satellite imagery dated July 11. That…
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Court rules that Trump can’t force a Michigan coal plant to keep running
A federal court has ruled that the Department of Energy acted outside the bounds of its legal authority when it forced a coal plant in Michigan to keep running last year — a decision that could undermine the Trump administration’s push to prevent aging and costly fossil-fueled power plants from closing down. Under…
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ASUS Pro WS W890E-SAGE SE Motherboard Review
Today we are taking a look at ASUS's premium motherboard for the new Xeon 600 workstation platform, the Pro WS W890E-SAGE SE. A showcase for the platform, the SAGE SE supports Xeon 600's full capabilities, while looking to appeal to both businesses and enthusiasts alike The post ASUS Pro WS W890E-SAGE SE Motherboard Review appeared first on ServeTheHome .
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Court rejects DOE ‘emergency’ order delaying coal plant retirement as overstep
“The Department’s reading of 'emergency' invites frequent federal interventions that are unsupported by the statute and threaten the stability of the energy market,” the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit said in its ruling.
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New York ISO’s independence is critical when the grid is stressed
This summer’s Champlain Hudson Power Express outage highlights the importance of an independent grid operator, writes Zach Smith, senior vice president of system and resource planning at NYISO.
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Balcony solar is this year’s clean energy superstar in the US
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Summer is only just coming to a close, but this year’s top clean energy trendsetter is already clear. At the start of 2026, you may never have even heard of balcony solar. The panels have long been staples…
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Premier Energies, RCT India plan 12GWh BESS manufacturing facility in Telangana
Premier Energies and RCT India have established a joint venture to develop a 12GWh BESS manufacturing facility in Telangana, India.
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Pennsylvania PUC to consider ratemaking, ROE and curtailment as data center load grows
The decisions come “amid growing concern about the balance between rapidly increasing electricity demand and the resources available to serve that demand” in PJM territory, the Pennsylvania PUC said.
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Metlen agrees to sell 165MW/725MWh Chile solar-plus-storage project
Greek renewables developer Metlen Energy & Metals has signed an agreement with utility Copec for the sale of the Tamarico II solar-plus-storage project in Chile’s Atacama region.
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Axpo and energieUri commission Switzerland’s largest operational BESS facility
Utility and power firms Axpo and energieUri have commissioned two large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Gurtnellen, Canton Uri.
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BESS Industry Buzz: Beijing’s manufacturing ban, ‘responsible’ data centre policy, LDES economics and more
Our collection of user-posted analysis, views, and unofficial news, gathered from our networks on LinkedIn, returns for its third outing.
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Unplanned power plant outages fell sharply during 2025/26 winter storms: FERC-NERC report
Improved preparations and interregional power transfers played key roles in avoiding planned blackouts during bitter cold in early 2026, according to the agency and grid watchdog.
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Vattenfall goes ahead with 1GWh battery storage project at former nuclear site in Germany
Update 14 September 2026: Vattenfall representatives offered more details and responded to Energy-Storage.news enquiries.
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The battery era is here — and China is supplying it
See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column . Batteries are taking center stage in the energy world. Battery deployment, both to power electric vehicles and to store electricity for the grid, has skyrocketed in recent years. Last year, more than 1.5 terawatt-hours of batteries were placed into service…
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Mass. utilities and Hydro-Quebec sue each other over missing hydropower
Three Massachusetts utilities are suing Canadian energy giant Hydro-Québec after it failed to deliver promised hydropower for several days during a cold snap this winter. Hydro-Québec, in turn, is suing the utilities for withholding payment for power that was delivered. The dispute is the latest in a string of…
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Broadcom Rides Rocketing Trend For Custom AI Accelerators
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Google bankrolls PG&E virtual power plant
The SHARE program is a proof of concept for privately-funded distributed energy capacity and could eventually expand to include commercial, industrial and utility-scale resources, Pacific Gas & Electric said.
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Beyond Category 5: What extreme hurricanes mean for electric utilities
As storm behavior changes, grid planning frameworks need to keep pace with evolving risk profiles, write Michael Levy and Sarah Pearl of management consulting firm Baringa.
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Startup d-Matrix Will Pair Its Raptor Memory-Based XPU To Nvidia Rackscale Iron
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California PUC to revise general rate case plan around transparency goals
Commissioner Darcie Houck suggested taking “a closer look at the correlation between utility performance and compensation.” The plan has not been comprehensively updated since 2007.
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Solar generation expected to grow 21% this year, 18% in 2027: EIA
Data centers and a manufacturing expansion will drive U.S. electricity use 2% higher this year and next, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Wednesday.
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Qualcomm Talks Next-Gen Oryon CPU, Adreno GPU, and Hexagon NPU
Qualcomm disclosed more on its next-gen Oryon CPU, Adreno GPU, and Hexagon NPU that will power next-gen devices The post Qualcomm Talks Next-Gen Oryon CPU, Adreno GPU, and Hexagon NPU appeared first on ServeTheHome .
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FlexGen, SMT Energy commission 320MWh Texas BESS in just six weeks, as ERCOT grid faces record demand
Developer SMT Energy and Software-focused energy storage system integrator FlexGen have announced the start of operations of a 160MW/320MWh energy storage facility Houston, Texas, US.
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Second-life BESS firms B2U, Moment and Rebaba advance project operations, US compliance, and new financing
Second-life battery energy storage system (BESS) firms B2U, Moment and Rebaba are advancing project operations in Texas, US compliance, and new financing in Europe, respectively.
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Coal-to-solar project lands a rare clean-energy win in Ohio
Clean energy scored a rare win in Ohio last month when state regulators unanimously approved a permit for 149 megawatts of solar and 149 MW of battery storage at the Hamden Energy site in Vinton County, located in the southeast quadrant of the state. In contrast to most of the state’s solar permitting cases, no…
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Trump emergency order casts uncertainty over grid battery growth
The Trump administration’s vaguely worded executive order on grid cybersecurity threatens to slow down the booming U.S. energy storage market . The order, issued late last month, declares a national security emergency over the risk that foreign-made technologies could be used to hack into and disrupt the U.S. power…
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- Energy-Storage.news
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- IEEE Spectrum
- computing
- The Next Platform
- compute
- Utility Dive
- power
- Canary Media
- energy
- TechCrunch
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- ServeTheHome
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