Weekly Debrief

Savings grow as energy prices in Great Britain rise and cost of panel installation falls, analysis finds Households in Great Britain’s cloudiest regions could still save more than £400 a year on their energy bills by installing rooftop solar panels, research has found. Rising wholesale energy prices mean the potential savings from a home solar panel system have climbed in recent years, as the cost of installation has continued to fall, leading to increased demand. Continue reading...

Quaise Energy, an MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) spinout developing drilling technology to access superhot geothermal energy, raised $180 million in a series B round of venture capital, bringing the company’s total funding to $280 million. This new investment will fund the company’s Project Obsidian, a commercial superhot geothermal plant that Quaise is building near the… Read more

Tesla was one of the pioneers of the grid-scale battery storage market, but has faced increasing competition in the past few years. In this article we look under the hood of its latest grid-scale BESS product, the Megapack 3.

How renewable is your energy tariff? Discover what the Matched Clean Power Index reveals about UK suppliers, real-time energy matching and Good Energy’s renewable credentials.

Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Cleanhill Partners have agreed to sell power electronics manufacturer EPC Power Corp to Flex.

A roundup of user-posted analysis, views and unofficial news from across the industry this past week, this time looking at this week's sabotage attack on the German grid, BESS revenues and electricity market activity, CATL's LFP price cut and various non-lithium news.

Canadian Solar’s quarterly battery storage shipments increased 73% year-on-year, with 3.7GWh delivered in the second quarter of 2026.

BESS owner-operator BW ESS has progressed large-scale projects in Italy and Spain, totalling almost 1.2GWh and set to come online in 2027/28.

Power generator LEAG and its turnkey BESS construction partner HyperStrong have started building a 400MW/1,600MWh project in Germany, while Sunotec has done the same on a 441MWh project.

ONE Nuclear Energy has executed a binding letter of intent to develop a 2.88GW natural gas plant and 700MW/2.88GWh energy storage system, co-located with a high-capacity data centre campus.

South Korean battery manufacturer SK On’s US production facilities will supply NeoVolta Power with 9GWh of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) pouch cells under a five-year deal.

CIP has acquired full ownership of the 104MW Gawara Baya wind-plus-storage project in North Queensland, Australia, from developer Windlab.

Demand for avocados is booming in India and local growers hope to grab more of the market.