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The battered European chemicals industry has just closed a weak but still better-than-expected first quarter as the supply shock from the Middle East hit Asian petrochemical makers amid dried-up naphtha and other […]

Utilities are under real pressure right now. Demand is climbing fast, with data centers and other new large loads driving visible — and at times controversial — demand, right as worsening extreme […]

A record year, and an incredibly strong outlook for the energy storage sector. From ESS News The energy storage industry has reached the 100 GW era, with BloombergNEF’s Energy Storage Market Outlook […]

Owner of Australia’s most successful big battery developer says storage costs have plunge 65-70 pct in last two years, and are solving the grid’s biggest problems. The post “They solve the problem:” […]

China has expanded its cleantech manufacturing capacity so much that industry players are searching for a way to decrease competition to make pricing more realistic and stop smaller producers from falling into […]

Month of April saw many new records, with strong wind conditions crunching coal, and big batteries displacing peaking gas generators. The post Batteries swamp gas, big wind crunches coal in a month […]

For most of the U.S. power system’s history, rate design has served a single purpose: allocating costs among customers, based on when and where they used electricity. Today, however, utilities aren’t just […]

There was a piece in PV Magazine on May 4 that caught my attention. The argument is that the era of competing on a single battery benchmark is over. LFP, NMC, sodium-ion, […]

Most of the market buffers that have stopped oil futures prices from rallying to record highs could vanish before the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which puts the market in a […]

The latest bulletin from Generadoras de Chile highlights the continued expansion of BESS systems linked to solar plants, with over 2.5 GW in operation and an additional 6.3 GW under construction, amid […]