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Google and Voltus Expand PJM Virtual Power Plant to 1 GW
Google calls its PJM virtual power plant with Voltus a 10-fold expansion to 1 GW; Voltus says 1,070 MW is added to the 100 MW from June. No timeline has been shared.
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Google calls its PJM virtual power plant with Voltus a 10-fold expansion to 1 GW; Voltus says 1,070 MW is added to the 100 MW from June. No timeline has been shared.
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Grid
NERC's Standards Committee approved Project 2026-03 on data center ride-through and power recovery, RTO Insider reported, after 3,800 MW of Northern Virginia load dropped on July 22.
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Batteries
Enertrag reached financial close on the three-hour LFP Les Sablons BESS in northern France. ESS News names Huawei as supplier, and operation is targeted for spring 2027.
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Batteries
BAIC Group signed the deal on October 22 to link models from multiple brands to CATL's Choco swap network and open its dealers to station builds, but gave no timeline or station count.
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Batteries
CATL's third-quarter profit grew far slower than revenue, with margins down and a VAT rebate cut ahead. It still sees 2027 demand holding on larger packs, averaging 69.5 kWh per vehicle.
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Cooling
LG Electronics showed data center cooling gear, from chillers and CDUs to cold plates and immersion, at Korea's HARFKO show on Oct 21 but gave no capacity or temperature figures.
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Grid
LevelTen's Q3 index puts the Core-Markets P25 solar PPA price at $64.23/MWh and blames Section 232 tariffs, as hyperscalers took 99% of Q1 new-build PPAs.
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Batteries
BW ESS's Hams Hall BESS in the West Midlands gets debt from OCBC, Rabobank and Societe Generale, backed by a 10-year EDF floor. The loan amount was not disclosed.
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Batteries
CATL and Chery registered a second battery manufacturing joint venture in Wuhu on Oct. 19, with 1 billion yuan of capital and CATL at 51%. Capacity is undisclosed.
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Grid
ABB's third-quarter orders rose 40% to a record $12 billion, led by an 82% jump in the United States as data centers and utilities buy switchgear and grid equipment.
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Batteries
MOT received a 10.1 billion won order for assembly equipment on Samsung SDI's third US LFP energy-storage line at StarPlus Energy, per The Elec, as an NCA line is rebuilt for larger LFP cells.
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Batteries
Gotion High-Tech's new CTB truck pack offers 400 to 700 kWh, 250 Wh/L and a 943 mm height, and the company says it makes the vehicle about 400 kg lighter.
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Batteries
EVE Energy launched its Longquan No. 3 2.0 all-solid-state cell at 1,045 Wh/L for brain implants, plus a sodium-ion solution for e-two-wheelers claiming 10,000 cycles.
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Batteries
CATL's new 1+X truck battery system combines a swappable 432 or 513 kWh main pack with a fixed 77 kWh range extender, with 13,000 initial units from 14 partners, electrive reported.
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Batteries
QuantumScape announced a 100 MWh solid-state cell line with Muehlbauer Group equipment, aimed at AI data centers, aerospace and defense, with cell production targeted to start in 2028.
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Batteries
Tesla's Q3 letter says battery availability limited vehicle volumes while Megafactory Texas began production with 50 GWh of planned capacity and storage deployments reached 13.7 GWh, as data center demand pulls on Megapack.
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Batteries
Peak Energy closed an oversubscribed $108 million round to scale U.S. production of passively cooled sodium-ion storage, with a 4 GWh Sacramento plant due to start in Q1 2027 and data centers as a new target market.
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Grid
Nearly all 94 US reactors were offered AI tools this year, and most accepted. The assistants search decades of records for a shrinking workforce, while humans keep every operating decision.
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Cooling
The three companies signed an MOU in Seoul to build and test standardized immersion-cooled data center designs. LG adds tanks to a lineup that already runs from chillers to coolant distribution units.
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Batteries
Yinwang signed a framework deal to make cars running Huawei's Qiankun driving systems work with CATL's Choco-swap stations. No vehicle models, dates or service areas were named.
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Batteries
Eos Energy expects record Q3 revenue of up to US$83 million, its eighth straight quarter of margin gains, but now guides to the lower half of its 2026 range.
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Batteries
Akaysha Energy rolled debt on four Australian BESS assets into an AU$1.75 billion, 11-bank facility, building a platform for a 6GW/25GWh pipeline.
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Batteries
Genesis Energy opened a 100MW/200MWh Saft battery at New Zealand's largest power station for about NZ$130 million as gas supply declines tighten winter margins.
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Batteries
ERCOT ended Q3 with 2.77 GW of batteries synchronized but not cleared for commercial operation, as US developers hit a year-end commissioning crunch.
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Grid
Google's 22-year PPA with Fortum takes up to half of Finland's 1.014 GW Loviisa nuclear plant from 2030, alongside 629 MW of wind and a 94 MW battery.
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Grid
AEP and X-energy will study a 960MW plant of twelve Xe-100 SMRs at a retired Indiana coal site, with Amazon funding development and buying the power.
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Batteries
Wood Mackenzie finds 4-hour BESS now cheaper than open-cycle gas peakers in all 43 markets it modeled, as gas turbine shortages push peaking costs higher.
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Batteries
Enertrag and Enlight, Vattenfall and Fluence, and Giga Storage advanced three German 4-hour BESS projects totalling 3.2GWh before a January 2027 FID cutoff.
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Grid
Fervo Energy is selling power from a 33MW unit at its $2 billion, 500MW Cape Station in Utah, the first utility-scale enhanced geothermal plant online.
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Batteries
VSL PowerHive will assemble LFP storage containers at a 7.5GWh-per-year plant near Chennai from April 2027, part of Vikram Solar's 30GWh-by-2030 battery plan.
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Cooling
Cooler Master has unveiled a 2,500kW in-row coolant distribution unit (CDU) for AI data centers, with mass production targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026.
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Cooling
Trane's LiquidStack CDU 2.X can remove up to 2.5MW of heat from AI servers and is built for several chip platforms, including Nvidia Vera Rubin. Ships Q2 2027.
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Grid
The EU has raised minimum import prices on GOES transformer steel until February 2027, after EU mills' share of their home market fell from 66% to 43%.
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Grid
Variable frequency drives, simple motor controllers, can cut motor power use 40 to 60 percent. Few US factories use them; makers want tech firms to help pay.
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Batteries
About 20.4GWh of big grid batteries came online worldwide in September, 61% more than a year earlier. China led, and Europe is growing fastest.
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Batteries
Flatiron Energy has raised about US$850 million for Energizar, a 1,200MWh battery project near Boston. Due in Q4 2027, it would be the US east coast's largest.
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