Aug 30, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
CATL now sells lithium iron phosphate battery cells from a web page. Pick a 314 Ah cell, and the price is 0.423 yuan per watt-hour — about $63 per kilowatt-hour, no distributor, a 600-cell minimum, shipped in three to five days. More than 1,800 energy-storage firms...
Aug 29, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Grid-scale batteries reached about 184 gigawatts of installed power worldwide by the end of July 2026, according to Rho Motion’s monthly deployment database — within a decade’s-worth of catch-up of pumped hydro, the water battery that took a century to...
Aug 28, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A grid-following inverter can only push power into a grid that already exists. A grid-forming inverter can build the grid — set its voltage and frequency itself, the way a spinning generator does. That one distinction decides whether solar panels and batteries can...
Aug 28, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
Lyten, a Silicon Valley startup that has never shipped a battery cell at gigawatt scale, has agreed to buy Norway’s bankrupt Morrow Batteries — its sixth distressed European battery asset in fourteen months. Morrow burned through NOK 5.1 billion, roughly €468...
Aug 25, 2026 | Battery Technology, Home Electrification, Renewable Energy
The right size for a home battery is the amount of electricity you can actually shift from an expensive hour to a cheap one, or store through an outage — not the number on the installer’s quote. For most American homes in 2026 that is a smaller battery than the...
Aug 25, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Saudi Arabia has signed $1.16 billion in contracts for 2,000 MW of grid batteries, each site holding four hours of storage, for a combined 8 GWh. The offtaker, the state’s Saudi Power Procurement Company, has agreed to pay for them for fifteen years whether they...
