The future leaves
signals in time.

Energy storage owner-operator Nightpeak Energy has reached financial close and commercial operation on its 150MW/300MWh Bocanova 2 battery storage project in Brazoria County, Southeast Texas. Per the headline, this doubles the Texas BESS site to 300MW.

Scientists have found that unusually small cancer cells carrying extra chromosomes can be far more aggressive than larger ones, growing faster, spreading more readily and resisting common treatments. The finding could help explain why some tumors are especially dangerous and may offer a new way to predict cancer outcomes.

Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve has introduced 38 Sand gazelles into an operational 250 MW solar facility following a seven-month trial. The project aims to use existing PV infrastructure as a breeding habitat for threatened wildlife, with the first births expected this winter.

This commentary describes how customs paperwork, rather than engineering, can delay warehouse robotics deployments: the author says a Skypod system that took eighteen months to engineer sat in a port warehouse for six weeks because a customs form listed the wrong harmonized tariff code, with the technical team blameless in both such cases the author observed.

Metals and energy group Metlen and conglomerate Karatzis Group have inaugurated the largest battery energy storage system (BESS) in Greece, a 790 MWh facility, at a ceremony attended by the country's Prime Minister, who said that "storage should accompany renewables".

A Mercom India study found that solar industry employers across project development, manufacturing, rooftop solar, and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) often need to spend months training fresh graduates before they are ready to contribute effectively.

Agility has selected Nyobolt to provide ultra-fast charging power technology for its Digit 5 humanoid robot. According to the report, the technology enables the humanoid to work up to 20 hours a day.

According to an ITER announcement, the JOREK magneto-hydro-dynamic simulation code is now available as open source. The item provides no further details beyond the release notice.

Valve's Steam Big Picture mode has added a new home screen layout called Big Art Mode and a screensaver that users can swap for their own. According to the client notes, Big Art Mode can be enabled in Settings > Home, and the new screensaver feature is accessible in Settings > Customization.

According to WIRED, a scientist on NASA's Artemis III mission shared what to expect from the agency's next lunar mission. Per the report, the voyage — though scaled back from initial plans of landing — will serve as a dress rehearsal for when humans return to the moon's surface.

As Exa Energy connected a 100MW/1GWh CO2-based energy storage system to the grid in China, the report compares its technology with Energy Dome's and quotes the statement 'we are taking appropriate action to defend IP rights.' How similar the two technologies are is not stated in the context provided.

Exa Energy has connected a 100MW/1GWh carbon dioxide-based energy storage system to the grid in China, prompting a comparison of its technology with that of Energy Dome.

Think tank Ember says the world is falling well short on its energy storage commitment despite increased ambitions. It reports insufficient progress towards the Energy Storage and Grids Pledge, which dozens of countries endorsed at COP29 two years ago.

Finnish transmission system operator Fingrid will require new wind and solar plants in Finland's weakest grid areas to provide grid-forming capability. Developers can meet the requirement with co-located batteries sized at up to 30% of plant output.

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, with William Zhou and Daniel Freeman, ran the Gemma4-26B-A4B model across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes bought for about $55 each with 4GB of RAM apiece, achieving 0.39 tokens per second overall. The authors write that the result shows "signs of life for AI worms."

Mova has launched the LumeGret S5000 residential energy storage system, which combines solar power management, expandable battery storage and electric vehicle charging. The system supports up to 4.8 kW of solar input and can be paired with a 7 kW EV charger.

Researchers in Portugal investigated the mechanical durability of moth-eye-inspired antireflective silicon surfaces for photovoltaic applications, finding that repeated sliding causes nanopillar fracture and material compaction, with higher mechanical loads leading to increased friction and wear.