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The year-end rush is described as a perennial challenge for the battery energy storage system (BESS) sector in the US, highlighting strains related to commissioning and policy.

According to a new Wood Mackenzie report, four-hour battery storage is less expensive than open-cycle gas turbines in all 43 markets where both technologies were modelled.

SteamVR's 2.18.4 beta carries only three change lines. Valve offers Steam Link a "speculative fix for ~300ms gaps in frame delivery in some packet-loss situations" — Valve's own wording — and does not promise the fix works.

Taiwanese floating solar supplier Suntoward will begin producing floats, walkways and mooring components in the Philippines in early 2027.

A group of Green Party politicians in Norway is calling on the Norwegian government to enable the connection of plug-in solar and batteries that meet established safety requirements by the end of 2027.

OpenAI says ChatGPT Slides is rolling out to eligible Pro, Business and Enterprise users with Space access, on web and desktop. It can build presentations that teams edit in real time, though on Windows 10 the desktop app delivers a PowerPoint file instead.

Virtual power plants are rapidly scaling, and other developments include 20 community solar projects securing financing, an ERCOT storage site doubling its capacity, Flatiron financing the East Coast's largest BESS, and an innovative solar upgrade for an Oregon municipal building.

Scientists identified overactive immune cells in the brain as an unexpected culprit behind sleep loss in Alzheimer's disease. Temporarily removing these cells restored more than two hours of sleep per day in mice, suggesting a possible new treatment target; this is animal-model research, not yet shown in humans.

Indonesia's president has instructed a reform of the state power utility PT PLN, focusing on improving efficiency and productivity as well as accelerating delivery of the country's 100 GW solar program.

According to mid-stage study results reported Monday, an oral treatment from Gilead Sciences eliminated symptoms experienced by patients with a type of inflammatory bowel disease. The findings come from a mid-stage study.

Longi researchers found that edge masking improves the measured efficiency of heterojunction back-contact solar cells by suppressing edge recombination, with an optimal masking width of 5 mm. Their simulations suggest selective metallization could raise efficiency from 26.85% to a theoretical maximum of 27.39%.

CATL CEO and chairman Robin Zeng said in an industry speech last week that energy storage is becoming an indispensable infrastructure of the new-type power system, and that the technology must stand the test of time.

JinkoSolar has unveiled its first back-contact solar cell technology, a new architecture called TAC that combines TOPCon with amorphous silicon heterojunction passivation. The Chinese manufacturer reported a peak cell conversion efficiency of 28%.

Valve has reintroduced Android binder IPC support in the SteamOS 3.9.3 beta kernel. Owners say the option is needed for Waydroid to run on a Steam Deck without unlocking the filesystem, and its removal was reported three weeks ago.

LUT University professor Christian Breyer told pv magazine that oil- and gas-producing countries could strengthen their economies by accelerating domestic renewable deployment while maintaining fossil fuel exports. He cited Norway as an example of electrification maximizing fossil fuel value, and argued Russia's political choices prevent it from exploiting similar opportunities.

The studio Another Axiom updated Gorilla Tag's OG Maps and Rotating Maps to support 20-player rooms. The update also provided map makers with a Dev Terminal.

The South Australian government has selected four proposed renewable energy projects with a combined generation capacity of almost 13 GW. These projects are slated to progress near the industrial center of Whyalla in the state’s Upper Spencer Gulf region.