Texas has always charted its own course, especially when it comes to energy. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages about 90% of the state's electric load, operates ...

Grid operators are racing to keep up with a surge of renewable power and a wave of electricity-guzzling data centers, and the old toolkit of short-duration lithium packs and gas peaker plants is no ...

There’s folk wisdom in just about every culture that teaches about renewable energy — things like “make hay while the sun shines”. But as an industrial culture, we want to make hay 24/7 and not be at ...

The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has begun the first tests of a utility-grade battery at the new Grid Storage Launchpad, a major milestone for DOE's investment in ...

Grid-scale energy storage, particularly mega-batteries, is essential for the global clean energy transition by balancing the variable nature of renewable energy sources like solar and wind. The scale ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. As the global energy system adds more intermittent renewables, ...

ORNL advances in flow-battery research showcase how modifications in glyme-based electrolytes (yellow, red and green) can boost efficient energy storage. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak ...

The US added 57 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of battery storage capacity to its electric grid last year – enough to supply the annual electricity needs of roughly ...

Following their review of redox flow battery research, Norway-based scientists told pv magazine that despite its high upfront capital costs and lower energy density relative to metal-ion, the ...

U.S. electricity demand is rising faster than the grid was designed to accommodate. The demand is driven by artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, data centers and large-scale electrification. Energy ...

EDISON, N.J., Feb. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Calibrant Energy today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to build, own, and operate a 23 MWh on-site battery energy storage system at Iron ...

Pacifico Energy K.K. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Hiroki Matsuo; hereinafter “Pacifico Energy”) today announced that it has commenced commercial operation of a grid-scale battery ...