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Key talking points at the Battery Asset Management Summit UK & Ireland 2026 included bankability, offtake, and regulatory and system reform.

According to GlobalData, renewables could rise from 12% of Qatar's power capacity in 2025 to 25.9% by 2035, with solar leading while gas remains the backbone of the country's power and water system. This is a projection, not a confirmed outcome.

Independent power producer Clearway Energy has added 210MW of energy storage capacity to its Honeycomb Energy Centre fleet in Southern Utah, US. According to the headline, this brings the facility's capacity to 2,120MWh.

The stutter Linux players report in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt appears to stem from a network check rather than the graphics card. A Wine bug report filed on October 8 says the game asks Windows whether the machine is online about 10 times a second on its main thread.

Neoen, BW ESS and MN8 are among the big names in the downstream battery storage market that have signed up to the newly formed Energy Storage Contract Alliance, an initiative aimed at simplifying battery energy storage system (BESS) procurement, according to the report.

According to pv magazine, CATL and Intilion have signed a five-year agreement extending an existing partnership into sodium-ion storage, targeting up to 3 GWh of sodium-ion storage across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

A student club has published a tool called RawMeta that turns the Neural Band wristband shipped with Meta Ray-Ban Display into an 8-channel, 2048Hz EMG recorder. The band hands raw electrode samples to anything that can prove it owns the band, and Meta has only ever priced it together with the glasses.

Patient advocates and some experts are expressing growing alarm over the perceived risks of a rare disease drug sold by Neurocrine Biosciences. The item does not provide specific safety data or conclusions.

Valo, the new joint venture formed as a continuation of Wärtsilä's energy storage business, is in discussions with 'strong players' about US domestic content manufacturing and is weighing investment in the US supply chain, including factories, according to Energy-Storage.news.

Meta's documentation for its glasses camera gives third-party apps three resolutions, with the top capped at 720x1280. The camera-streaming file in the Wearables Device Access Toolkit repository lists .high as 720x1280, .medium as 504x896 and .low as 360x640, with frame rate restricted; Meta says lower resolution yields better video.

Researchers in Slovenia developed a numerical model indicating that luminescent UV down-shifting layers could improve the long-term performance of TOPCon solar modules. Simulations suggest the technology could raise cumulative energy yields by more than 4% over 10 years while mitigating UV-induced degradation; the findings are simulation-based.

According to new scenarios published by grid operators Terna and Snam, Italy's installed solar PV capacity is expected to rise from 43.5 GW at the end of 2025 to 82.3 GW by 2030, reaching between 114 GW and 137 GW by 2040. The projections also point to significant growth in energy storage, electrification, and electricity flows between market zones.

pv magazine reports that distributed solar is expected to reach 92 GW by 2036. The report also notes that the growth of decentralized generation is expected to create operational challenges, particularly in integrating distributed energy resources, coordinating generation and demand, and maintaining system flexibility. The provided context does not specify the country or source of the projection.

According to an announcement published on October 10, D-Day VR Museum will drop its VR headset requirement with an update on October 27, letting visitors explore the virtual museum on a standard PC monitor without VR hardware. The VR version will remain available.

PV Magazine reports that PV systems are increasingly deployed in environments with diverse stressors, from alpine snow loads to desert dust and tropical humidity. The article argues that as solar expands into these regions, project design should look beyond nameplate efficiency and center on the climate systems will face for decades.

According to MIXED, Nvidia released version 4.18.0 of its real-time denoiser library NRD on October 9. In this version, the REBLUR and RELAX denoisers build their history from elapsed time rather than frame count, and the release ships five breaking changes. Nvidia's stated reason is truncated in the available context.

Samsung C&T's Australian renewables arm has referred an 800MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at Darnum in Victoria's Gippsland region to the federal government under Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act. The report covers the referral step only and mentions no approval decision.