An open letter addressed to President von der Leyen and other EU officials recalls that Europe began seriously pursuing a European battery value chain by 2021, with European companies investing billions based on EU leaders' promises that their factories were essential to Europe's future resilience. The full text is truncated in the supplied context.
New South Wales' Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has approved BayWa r.e.'s Bullawah Wind Farm in the South West Renewable Energy Zone. The project pairs 804MW of wind capacity with a 718MWh battery.
Apparel giants have launched the Fashion Renewable Collective in collaboration with Schneider Electric. The initiative aims to help suppliers across fashion supply chains adopt renewable electricity at scale.
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) is set to own 51% of the 240-MW Rich Road Solar project in partnership with EDF. It is the first project NYPA has developed using a public-private partnership model to advance renewable energy.
Strict, notoriously tangled regulations in New York City make it difficult to get large energy storage projects onto the grid. MIT Technology Review reports that, faced with these obstacles, some startups are getting creative, finding ways to use relatively small batteries in unexpected places — an approach that could help the grid.
According to an executive at tax-credit consulting firm Alliant, facility operators are using 48E investment tax credits to make energy projects financially viable, most commonly by installing battery storage systems that can leverage lower-cost electricity rates.
ITER published an item titled "Research, engineering and industry converge". The supplied context contains only the headline and publication timestamp, with no further details on its content.
ITER has published a piece in which Nobel laureate and exoplanet discoverer Michel Mayor discusses the value of science, touching on topics from exoplanets to ITER. Further details are not provided in the available context.
ITER announced that one of its test facilities has earned international accreditation. The available context does not specify which facility, the accrediting body, or the scope of the accreditation.
ITER reports that major components of the electron cyclotron transmission lines are in production. The supplied context is limited to the headline and publication date, with no further details provided.
Nature Energy published a study describing a Ni(OH)2 symmetric battery cell intended for hydroxide exchange membrane-based direct air capture of CO2. The feed provides no further details on methods, results, or performance.