Oct 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A 100-hour battery stores electricity for more than four days at a stretch and hands back only 35 to 50% of what you put in. That sounds broken. It is the entire point. The long-duration batteries now being built — Form Energy’s iron-air cells, Noon...
Sep 2, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A battery rated at 100 megawatts and a battery rated at 100 megawatt-hours are not the same battery, and mixing the two up is the most common error in energy storage. Power, measured in watts — kilowatts, megawatts, gigawatts — is how fast a battery can push...
Aug 17, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
On 13 August, Noon Energy and Sabanci Renewables signed an agreement to build up to 1 GW — 100 GWh — of storage that discharges for more than 100 hours, and to aim all of it at AI data centers. This is not a bigger version of the battery already on the grid. The...