Mercedes-Stellantis combine halts work at gigafactory sites, considers switch to LFP cells

Carmakers Mercedes and Stellantis have halted construction of their joint venture EV battery factories and are taking a relook at their EV battery plans. Reports say the two partne... Read More

GM sticks to EV transition plan, all-electric lineup by 2035 likely

General Motors is sticking to its plan for an all-electric vehicle lineup by 2035, a company spokesperson told reporters after news that the Detroit-based automaker might attempt a... Read More

What EU tariffs will do to trade with China

Imports of Chinese electric vehicles to Europe would drop 25 percent if the continent imposed a 20 percent import tariff on vehicles from the Middle Kingdom, according to a report ... Read More

Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power signs deal for 2 GW green hydrogen capacity in Tunisia

Saudi green hydrogen developer ACWA Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tunisia to develop a multi-gigawatt green hydrogen project that will export output to Europe... Read More

Architectural powerhouse designs buildings with built-in gravity energy storage

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill --- the firm that designed the Burj Khalifa in Dubai --- has signed an exclusive partnership with Energy Vault and deve... Read More

India offers ₹50 crore each to four hydrogen valleys: Pune, Jodhpur, Bhubaneshwar, Kerala

The Government of India has approved funding of ₹50 crore each over five years to four Hydrogen Valleys coming up in the country: Pune, Jodhpur, Bhubaneshwar and Kerala.  The ... Read More

South Korea unveils energy transition plan: 3x increase in wind, solar to 72 GW by 2038

South Korea has announced plans to more than triple renewable energy generation as part of national energy transition plan that will see the country generate majority of its electr... Read More

Australia's Squadron Energy eyes 2 GW renewables project linked to massive 12-hour battery

Australian renewables developer Squadron Energy has proposed a massive, 2 GW energy park consisting of 1 GW solar PV capacity and 1 GW wind power capacity, linked to a 1 GW / 12 GW... Read More

Brookfield buys majority in renewables developer Neoen in $6.6 billion deal

Brookfield Asset Management, the world's largest renewables investor, is looking to buy a majority stake in French renewables development company Neoen. The Canadian-based investor... Read More

Spain's X-Elio proposes 350 MW solar plant with 120 MW / 240 MWh big battery in Queensland

Spanish renewables developer X-Elio has applied for environmental approval in Australia to build a 350 MW solar farm coupled with a two-hour big battery of 120 MW / 240 MWh. The pr... Read More

BHEL looks to scale up indigenous alkaline electrolyzer tech in partnership with BARC

State-owned engineering and manufacturing company in India, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) signed a Technology Transfer Agreement with Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC)... Read More

BluSmart raising $25 million from founders, to launch e-taxi services in Dubai next month

BluSmart, India's biggest e-cab operator, is raising $25 million from its founders and existing investors, with contributions from new investors as well, co-founder Punit Goyal tol... Read More

RWE to build Australia's first eight-hour battery

Germany-headquartered global renewables player RWE has announced an investment decision to build Australia's first eight-hour battery near Balranald in New South Wales (NSW). The L... Read More

Gotion showcases EV batteries that charge to 80 percent in > 10 mins

China's Gotion High-Tech might have stolen a march on the rest of the world, including homegrown rival CATL, with the development of a car battery that can go from zero to 80 perce... Read More

Europe passes bill to kickstart clean tech manufacturing, to come in force from June

Europe has cleared the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA), its attempt to counter the US Inflation Reduction Act and China's clean tech dominance, while kickstarting clean energy product... Read More

Rio Tinto, BHP to test large battery electric haul truck technology

Leading global mining group, Rio Tinto on Monday (May 27) announced that it will be collaborating with BHP for the testing of large battery-electric haul truck technology in t... Read More

GAIL inaugurates its first GH2 plant in India: 10 MW PEM electrolyzer at Vijaipur, MP

Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) announced the company inaugurated its first green hydrogen plant at Vijaipur, Madhya Pradesh. The plant, which uses a 10 MW proton exchange membra... Read More

Ameresco strikes $249 million deal with Atlantic Green to build one of UK’s largest battery storage project

Leading cleantech integrator, Ameresco on Thursday (May 23) announced that it has entered in a $249 million contract and long-term service agreement with Atlantic Green to bui... Read More

Tesla breaks ground on $200 mn ESS plant in Shanghai, its first outside US

Company has also reportedly told EV suppliers to set up capacity outside China and Taiwan from next year Tesla has broken ground in Shanghai on the company's first battery factory ... Read More

Nel enters technology licensing agreement with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries

Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser AS, a fully owned subsidiary of Nel ASA (Nel) on Tuesday (May 21) announced it has entered into a technology licensing agreement with India's largest... Read More

Uzbekistan to get Central Asia’s first renewable energy facility with utility-scale battery storage

The World Bank on Tuesday (May 21) announced that it will support a 250-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic plant with a 63-MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Uzbekistan -- Ce... Read More

Sandvik eyes second-life BESS for miners, to deploy prototype at Glencore

Mining company Sandvik has initiated a pilot to deploy a second-life battery energy storage system (BESS) from retired Sandvik BEVs at Glencore, the two companies announced. The co... Read More

Quinbrook starts work on $3.5 billion green steel project in Queensland

Queensland, Australia could become home to one of the largest green steel projects in the world, with Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (QIP) announcing it has commenced devel... Read More

Sungrow inks strategic agreement with L&T for a 760MWh off-grid energy storage project in Saudi Arabia

Leading photovoltaic inverter and energy storage solutions provider, Sungrow Power Supply Co. Ltd (Sungrow) on Tuesday (May 21) announced that it has entered a strategic partnershi... Read More

Ohmium to provide 10MW PEM electrolyzers for Croatia's first green hydrogen project

Advanced proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer manufacturer, Ohmium has been selected to equip the first green hydrogen project in Croatia led by IVICOM and supported by INA ... Read More

Scotland evaluates its largest 'water battery': 2 GW pumped storage at Loch Ness

Scottish developer Glen Earrach Energy Ltd (GEE) has announced plans to develop a 2 GW pumped storage hydro station at Balmacaan Estate in Scotland, and recently submitted its scop... Read More

Eiffage Énergie Systèmes and Entech's joint venture to deploy major energy storage projects

Technology firm, Entech and Eiffage Énergie Systèmes, a leader in design, installation, and maintenance of systems and equipment for electrical, industrial, climate, and energy eng... Read More

Italy's Eni reveals a 30 percent cut in scope 1 and 2 emissions from 2018

Italian energy company Eni announced it had cut its net scope 1 and 2 emissions in the upstream sector by 40 percent in 2023, compared with a 2018 baseline. It said particular atte... Read More

LG Energy Solution inks estimated $1 bn deal for ESS batteries with Hanwha QCells

LG Energy Solution Ltd, the world's third-largest battery maker, disclosed it had signed a contract with to supply 4.8 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy storage system (ESS) batteries... Read More

EPRI, Southern Company and Storworks complete testing of the world’s largest concrete thermal energy storage pilot

Leading independent, non-profit energy research and development organization, EPRI in collaboration with Southern Company and Storworks has successfully tested a pilot concrete the... Read More
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