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, 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...
Aug 21, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
On 18 August, LG Energy Solution started production at an all-new $2 billion plant in Lansing, Michigan, rated at more than 35 GWh of cells a year. Paired with its Holland plant up the road, the company now anchors more than 50 GWh of North American lithium iron...
Aug 12, 2026 | Battery Technology
America is getting its first sodium-ion battery factory — for the second time. Peak Energy is building a $71 million plant near Sacramento to make 4 GWh of sodium-ion grid batteries a year, a twentieth of the budget of the $1.4 billion Natron Energy gigafactory that...
Aug 7, 2026 | Battery Technology, Charging & Infrastructure
A battery’s C-rate is how fast it charges or discharges relative to its own capacity: at 1C it fills in an hour, at 4C in fifteen minutes, at 10C in six. That last figure is not hypothetical. In March 2025 BYD’s Super e-Platform hit 10C — 1,000 kW, 1,000...
