Energy Storage

Battery, grid storage, and long-duration storage news shaping power reliability and clean energy growth.

Energy Storage

The Global Electricity Gap Remains Stubbornly Wide

Jul 2, 2026

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The Global Electricity Gap Remains Stubbornly Wide

A new WHO report reveals 655 million people still lack basic power access, largely in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Energy Storage

Data Centers Will Devour 26 Percent More Power This Year

Jul 1, 2026

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Data Centers Will Devour 26 Percent More Power This Year

A new Gartner forecast warns that AI workloads are pushing the grid to its absolute limits.

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Green Energy

New York's $24 Million Bet on a Smarter Grid

Jul 1, 2026

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New York's $24 Million Bet on a Smarter Grid

The state is funding Grid Enhancing Technologies to squeeze more capacity out of existing power lines.

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Green Energy

SunZia: The Largest US Renewables Project Goes Live

Jun 29, 2026

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SunZia: The Largest US Renewables Project Goes Live

After 18 years of development, Pattern Energy’s 3.65 GW wind farm and transmission line is fully operational.

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Green Energy

Jun 29, 2026

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NextEra’s $94 Billion Bet on AI Power

The utility giant plans to build 15 to 30 GW of new generation specifically for US data centers by 2035.

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Green Energy

Energy Policy Is Getting a Security Badge

Jun 25, 2026

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Energy Policy Is Getting a Security Badge

Governments are treating grids, minerals, fuel prices, and electrification as economic-defense issues.

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Markets

Critical Minerals Need Buyers, Not Just Mines

Jun 25, 2026

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Critical Minerals Need Buyers, Not Just Mines

The next phase of mineral security is about creating bankable demand for diversified supply chains.

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Green Energy

Europe’s Heat Wave Is Turning Cooling Into Grid Infrastructure

Jun 25, 2026

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Europe’s Heat Wave Is Turning Cooling Into Grid Infrastructure

Extreme heat is not only raising electricity demand; it is also making some power plants harder to run.

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Green Energy

The AI Boom Just Ran Into the Breaker Box

Jun 25, 2026

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The AI Boom Just Ran Into the Breaker Box

Data centers are becoming one of the clearest tests of whether electricity systems can keep up with the economy they are supposed to power.

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Green Energy

AI Has a Power Problem. That Might Become a Grid Product.

Jun 24, 2026

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AI Has a Power Problem. That Might Become a Grid Product.

Data centers are growing from background infrastructure into one of the most important electricity stories of the decade.

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Energy Storage

Cambodia’s Battery Bet Is a Small Window Into a Big Grid Shift.

Jun 24, 2026

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Cambodia’s Battery Bet Is a Small Window Into a Big Grid Shift.

Emerging-market storage is not just a climate story. It is a reliability, development, and energy-security story.

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Markets

Oil gets a peace-deal discount. Tankers ask for the fine print.

Jun 17, 2026

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Oil gets a peace-deal discount. Tankers ask for the fine print.

Hormuz hopes cool crude, Puerto Rico buys LNG resilience, Southeast Asia gets an import-bill warning, and India’s solar boom runs into the battery wall.

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Energy Storage

Solar Just Beat Coal. The Grid Era Has Changed.

Jun 15, 2026

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Solar Just Beat Coal. The Grid Era Has Changed.

For the first full month on record, solar generated more U.S. electricity than coal. The milestone does not mean coal is gone, but it does show how quickly the American power stack is being rewritten.

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Beyond Lithium: The Race for Long-Duration Storage and Why the Next Decade Depends on It

May 10, 2026

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Beyond Lithium: The Race for Long-Duration Storage and Why the Next Decade Depends on It

Lithium-ion solved the evening peak. Now the industry is racing to build 100-hour storage at scale. Iron-air, vanadium, and thermal tech are all in the hunt.

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