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"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

• 60 out of 100 times it’ll “sync” and freeze with all 4 LEDs on. The Wii U does a little beep but doesn’t show the controller and no inputs work.
• 38 out of 100 times the same thing will happen but with all LEDs off
  • You need to remove the batteries in order to take the wiimotes out of these states
• 2 out of 100 times the wiimotes actually connect, but show with 1 battery bar and almost no inputs go through (and the ones that do are extremely laggy, except for the power button)
  • The manual states that if this happens you can remove the batteries, wait 3 minutes and connect (without syncing) again. That does fixes it sometimes, but it really only worked once for each wiimote.
  • A truly successful connection only happens after the “low battery one”, and even then it seems to be hard to achieve for the first time.
    • Afterwards you’re supposed to be able to reconnect without syncing and then not encounter the issues anymore. That was true for the pink wiimote, but the blue wiimote had to be synced again. I spent quite a few hours trying and wasn’t able to get a successful connection.
    • If you connect the pink wiimote that was working when the other wiimote is in the 4 LEDs freeze state it’ll break the connection of the other one and make you need to sync it again
      • Now none of my aliexpress wiimotes are synced and idk when I’ll be able to sync them again

"Spoiler alert: unless there happens to be some breakthrough in physics that will drive more gigahertz to our CPUs, more crypto to those GPUs, more watts to our batteries, and more money to cloud providers, we most probably will not see any difference between the computer you are using today and the one you will receive as a gift in Christmas 2033. Get used to this fact."

Return to Innocence
The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherbo…

The battery is often the first thing to fail with electronic medical implants, so... https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-battery-revival IEEE Spectrum: The unlikely revival of nuclear batteries.

Nuclear Batteries: Energy Storage for Decades
Nuclear batteries that last decades are being developed to power drones, sensors, remote devices and medical implants. Energy storage at its extreme.

GM lays off 1,700 workers making EVs and batteries in Michigan, Tennessee - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/weak-ev-demand-sees-gm-lay-off-1700-workers-at-two-plants/

Why there is no tsunami of waste #EV batteries. And look at the EV share in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Why it is important to get V2G/V2L working for older EVs right now.

"Tennet to grant grid access to 6 GW of Dutch battery projects"
#Netherlands #Batteries #Energy

Tennet to grant grid access to 6 GW of Dutch battery projects
After unlocking more than 9 GW of high-voltage grid capacity through flexible off-peak contracts, Dutch transmission system operator Tennet is set to allocate roughly two-thirds of the connection rights to battery energy storage systems.

i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy

Oppo launches €999 Find X9 and €1,299 Find X9 Pro in the UK and EU, with 7,025mAh and 7,500mAh silicon-carbon batteries and a MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chip (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/808187/oppo-find-x9-pros-massi…

Oppo Find X9 Pro’s massive 7,500mAh battery arrives in Europe
The two new Oppo phones bring some of the biggest batteries around.

Ready for the Sylvester Party on 1900m! Let's see how many tapes we can play with solar power backed 12v lead batteries.

Solar, wind power and batteries are set to make life a misery for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market.
A Reuters Breakingviews prediction for 2026. https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/renewables-turn-lng-glut-into-sinkhole-2…

Hyundai is making a major bet on EV batteries. The automaker is investing $900M to build a massive battery R&D campus in Korea by 2026.
The goal? Develop breakthrough battery tech in-house, optimize EV performance, and stay ahead in the global race to electrification.

Hyundai Motor Group Drives Next-Generation Battery Innovation with Future Mobility Battery Campus - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. KRW 1.2 trillion investment to establish Hyundai Motor Group’s first comprehensive battery research and development hub in Anseong, Korea, by the end of 2026 To internalize core battery technologies — cell design, process engineering and integrated control systems — to ... [continued]

Did little Luana really need to be lazy about removing batteries from original wiimotes after using?

"In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster"
#Batteries #Energy
https://www.

In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster
Aligned Data Centers will pay to build a 31-megawatt battery, an early example of how AI developers can move fast if they’re willing to be flexible.

A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly.
As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.

Tesla is recalling over 10,000 Powerwall 2 batteries due to burn risks https://www.theverge.com/news/820123/tesla-recall-uscpsc-powerwall-2-batteries-overheat-fire-burn-hazard

⚡ MXene current collectors could reduce size and improve recyclability of Li-ion batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-mxene-current-collectors-size-recyclability.html

MXene current collectors could reduce size and improve recyclability of Li-ion batteries
The vast majority of consumer electronics use lithium-ion batteries, and with each generation, these devices are designed smaller, lighter and with longer battery life to meet the growing demands of consumers. Each new iteration also brings the batteries that power the devices closer to the limits of their size, weight and performance.

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project (2007) - Learn how I switched my office lighting to 100% "off-grid" solar PV, batteries definitely included! #solar #microgen -

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project (2007)
Learn how I switched my office lighting to 100% off-grid solar PV, batteries definitely included! #solar #microgen

It’s apparent to anyone with a bit of education in technological history that this sort of thing must be possible. We have waste streams with higher concentrations of key elements than the "ore" we derive them from.
This is part of why I religiously recycle plastics even though right now they don’t really get recycled. At some point, the piles of unrecycled plastics will be a better raw material for new plastics than the dregs of petroleum we have left.

"Carmaker uses repurposed EV batteries to help power factory in Australia"
#Australia #EV #ElectricVehicles #Cars

Carmaker uses repurposed EV batteries to help power factory in Australia
Repurposed electric vehicle batteries are being used in the energy storage component of a solar and battery system supplying operations at Nissan Australia’s aluminum casting plant in Victoria.

Battery costs keep going down, good news for energy transition and renewable energy.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/batteries-now-cheap-enough-to-make-dispatchable-solar-economically-feasible/

Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.

It’s hard to articulate just how quickly batteries for grid storage are coming online.
These massive arrays of cells can soak up electricity when sources like solar are available and prices are low,
and then discharge power back to the grid when it’s needed most.
Back in 2015, the battery storage industry had installed only a fraction of a gigawatt-hour of battery storage capacity across the US.
That year, it set a seemingly bold target of adding 35 gigawatt-hours by …

Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Prices Fall to $108 Per Kilowatt-Hour, Despite Rising Metal Prices: BloombergNEF | BloombergNEF
BloombergNEF’s new framework and scorecard provides a tool for investors to analyze country-level climate risk and resilience.

How many lithium batteries and lithium power devices do you have in your house?
Might want to check on them every so often 🎈⁠🔥

When did CR2032 batteries get so expensive?! I was going to buy some for an AirTag yesterday but they were like £5.00 for 2 🤔

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy
https://e360.yale.edu/featur…

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

"les voitures électriques compensent leur surcoût environnemental initial après seulement deux ans d’usage."
(Étude d'une équipe de Duke University, publiée dans PLOS Climate)
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journa…

It’s odd that that happened, I’ve removed batteries a long time ago (these laptops have 3 separate batteries), and while there was some corrosion from one of them I cleaned it all up and it worked for several years.
I suspect something in power suppply (which is built into the laptop), so gonna have to take it apart which is annoying to say the least (brittle plastics, flimsy cables).

🚜 Electrification will change the farm. Swappable batteries, bidirectional charging and on-site solar charging
https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/tractors/agritechnica-2025-160hp-tadus-tractor-gets-swappable-batteries

Agritechnica 2025: 160hp Tadus tractor gets swappable batteries - Farmers Weekly
German outfit Tadus hopes to become the Tesla of the tractor world, having all but completed the development of its first battery-electric model. This has

Sharing the benefits of grid-scale batteries and solar/wind by trading in western US. The current 15 minute market in California Now going to day ahead market.
(I think made possible with recent massive grid-scale batteries allows evening out of renewables)
California now runs 5pm-8pm electricity use on batteries. Turn off more plants cuz can plan for a full day.
Thoughtful article on wholesale electricity grid coordination markets. Sounds dry, but cool:

😍 Der globale #LNG-Markt verändert sich grundlegend mit direkten Folgen für Australien.
Länder wie #Pakistan, #Indien und

How solar and big batteries are shaping a new global gas market reality – and what it means for Australia
Gas power's business model is disappearing. Solar has cut into daytime operation. Batteries are starting to take the rest. And that's bad news for Australian LNG.

Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible (Uma Gupta/pv magazine International)
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/batteries-now-cheap-enough-to-make-dispatchable-solar-economically-feasible/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p35#a251214p35

"Concrete that powers cities? Scientists turn ancient material into giant batteries"
#Batteries #Energy

Concrete that powers cities? Scientists turn ancient material into giant batteries | The Optimist Daily
MIT researchers develop a new kind of battery-powered concrete that could turn city infrastructure into green energy storage.

Fourth Power’s sci-fi thermal batteries could be cheaper than pricey natural gas power plants
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/fourth-powers-sci-fi-thermal-batteries-could-be-cheaper-than-pricey-natural-gas-powe…

Exclusive: Fourth Power’s sci-fi thermal batteries could be cheaper than pricey natural gas power plants | TechCrunch
Fourth Power has raised $20 million to build a demonstration version of its thermal batteries, which ultimately could store electricity at $25 per kWh.

Using thousands of discarded vape batteries to power a house sounds cool until you remember lithium-ion batteries can explode and cause fires. Definitely not a weekend project for amateurs. Watch if you dare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-wFixuRVU

KEHS talk: Home Batteries (2025) - Kingston Efficient Homes Show 2025 small talk on storing your energy. - https://www.earth.org.uk/KEHS-2025-talk-Home-Batteries.html

KEHS talk: Home Batteries (2025)
Kingston Efficient Homes Show 2025 small talk on storing your energy.

Tesla is recalling over 10,000 Powerwall 2 batteries due to burn risks https://www.theverge.com/news/820123/tesla-recall-uscpsc-powerwall-2-batteries-overheat-fire-burn-hazard

By stabilizing a metastable form of sodium solid electrolyte,
a new technique creates all-solid-state sodium batteries
that retain performance down to subzero temperatures
https://pme.uchicago.edu/news/breakthrough-advances-sodium-based-battery-des…

Breakthrough advances sodium-based battery design
By stabilizing a metastable form of sodium solid electrolyte, a new technique creates all-solid-state sodium batteries that retain performance down to subzero temperatures

A Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning Approach for Degradation-Aware Long-Term Charging Optimization in Batteries
Shanthan Kumar Padisala, Bharatkumar Hegde, Ibrahim Haskara, Satadru Dey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11515

A Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning Approach for Degradation-Aware Long-Term Charging Optimization in Batteries
Batteries degrade with usage and continuous cycling. This aging is typically reflected through the resistance growth and the capacity fade of battery cells. Over the years, various charging methods have been presented in the literature that proposed current profiles in order to enable optimal, fast, and/or health-conscious charging. However, very few works have attempted to make the ubiquitous Constant Current Constant Voltage (CCCV) charging protocol adaptive to the changing battery health as …

The Facts Are In: You Shouldn't Worry About EV Battery Replacements
“Lots of car buyers are worried about how long EV batteries last.
Research shows that modern EV batteries rarely fail.
Only 0.3% of batteries in EVs sold after 2022 have had to be replaced, outside of major recalls, Recurrent says.”
#EV #Car #Electric #EndFossilFuels
https://insideevs.com/news/779210/ev-battery-replacements-data-tesla/

"Ford is retreating from EVs — but embracing grid batteries"
#Ford #Batteries #Energy

Ford is retreating from EVs — but embracing grid batteries
Amid its $20B EV failure, the storied automaker will retool a Kentucky plant to try and break into the booming energy storage sector.

My batteries are always low after a long day of work.
No, not emotionally. The devices I work with just take up all my USB ports, leaving my phone empty.

So the Chinese have got a new type of battery that works at - 40ºC !
This will be game-changing in the arctic and antarctica, hopefully making diesel generators obsolete. Charge the batteries during the endless sun of the summer, use the energy during the endless night of the winter...

CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production
CATL announced its sodium-ion battery achieves 175 Wh/kg and 500 km range, with certified safety and 2026 mass supply.

Neighbors with solar panels can now trade energy directly with each other, thanks to a breakthrough cloud-based system from Washington State University.
The platform lets communities share power locally, cutting energy costs by up to 12% in testing. It's a glimpse of how neighborhoods could become mini power grids, keeping solar energy local instead of sending it back to utilities.

Community-based energy trading system for home solar-plus-storage
A research team led by Washington State University has developed a cloud-based system for trading and sharing energy from solar panels and batteries within a neighbourhood. The concept displayed potential energy cost savings of around 12% over a five-day test period.

I am at the @… offices in Iceland and all the clocks seem to have run out of batteries but don't worry friends, I fixed them! 😉
I am now just waiting for all the thanks from my colleagues to shower in.

Hmm I kinda wish the #dirvish extension had submitted fixes and enhancements to the #upstream project rather than just lift and shifted the code. At least the license is the same:

I absolutely did not anticipate how jam packed an itinerary we'd have coming out to philly but it's been sick so far
but yesterday and today have been just wall to wall ACTIVITIES and im surprised my body hasn't fallen apart yet
my physical and social batteries are gonna need to be put on charge for like a straight week at least after this trip tho

"Residential installations lead Dutch storage boom"
#Netherlands #Energy #Batteries

Residential installations lead Dutch storage boom
The phasing out of net-metering for solar installations is incentivizing a growing number of citizens to install residential battery storage systems in the Netherlands. Analysts are predicting the upward trend will accelerate in the coming years.

Quantification of Electrolyte Degradation in Lithium-ion Batteries with Neutron Imaging Techniques
Yonggang Hu, Yiqing Liao, Lufeng Yang, Ke Zhang, Yufan Peng, Shijun Tang, Shengxiang Wang, Meifang Ding, Jiahao Wu, Jianrong Lin, Jinding Liang, Yimin Wei, Yanting Jin, Zhengliang Gong, Anatoliy Senyshyn, Jie Chen, Yong Yang
https://arxiv.org…

Quantification of Electrolyte Degradation in Lithium-ion Batteries with Neutron Imaging Techniques
Non-destructive characterization of lithium-ion batteries provides critical insights for optimizing performance and lifespan while preserving structural integrity. Optimizing electrolyte design in commercial LIBs requires consideration of composition, electrolyte-to-capacity ratio, spatial distribution, and associated degradation pathways. However, existing non-destructive methods for studying electrolyte infiltration, distribution, and degradation in LIBs lack the spatiotemporal resolution req…

Honor unveils its flagships Magic8, with a 7,000mAh battery, and Magic8 Pro, with 7,200mAh, both featuring an AI button, launching in China for ~$630 and ~$800 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799808/honor-magic-8-pro-launch-chi…

Honor’s Magic 8 phones have huge batteries and oodles of AI
The Honor Magic 8 Pro fits in a 7,200mAh battery, but only in its Chinese release, with smaller batteries for international markets.

Is there someone (in the US) who offers a service to rebuild old laptop and camera batteries?

So the battery I changed in the MSI GS43 VR-7RE last month or so prevented the machine from powering up this morning.
I had to disassemble it to find that out but in the principle that it was the last thing I changed it was a fair enough guess.
Do I bother getting another battery from a different supplier? There's only a couple of actual batteries available and I could just rely on mains for sleeping; it's rarely moved.

Videogames convinced me that the power-cells on large devices would be user-removable, shaped like giant versions of device batteries, and be interchangeable between different types of device.
Move the power-cell from the winch to the security door controls of the abandoned research station.

Comparing fine-tuning strategies of MACE machine learning force field for modeling Li-ion diffusion in LiF for batteries
Nada Alghamdi, Paolo de Angelis, Pietro Asinari, Eliodoro Chiavazzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05020

Comparing fine-tuning strategies of MACE machine learning force field for modeling Li-ion diffusion in LiF for batteries
Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are transforming materials science and engineering by enabling the study of complex phenomena, such as those critical to battery operation. In this work, we benchmark the MACE machine learning model against a well-trained DeePMD potential for predicting interstitial lithium diffusivity in LiF, a key component in the solid electrolyte interphase in Li ion batteries. Our results demonstrate that the MACE-MPA-0 foundational model achieves comparable …

Not the final lights but ones with batteries I have lying around. They'll have lights chasing up and down the length of the windows and changing colour and warping when it's done next year.
Make 'em flash with the materialisation noise as an alarm clock maybe 😆

I took some renovation debris to our local recycling centre yesterday and picked up a bag for small batteries. I like how the design is Halloween inspired.
#Recycling

Product Digital Twin Supporting End-of-life Phase of Electric Vehicle Batteries Utilizing Product-Process-Resource Asset Network
Sara Strakosova, Petr Novak, Petr Kadera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02167

Product Digital Twin Supporting End-of-life Phase of Electric Vehicle Batteries Utilizing Product-Process-Resource Asset Network
In the context of the circular economy, products in their end-of-life phase should be either remanufactured or recycled. Both of these processes are crucial for sustainability and environmental conservation. However, manufacturers often do not support these processes enough by not sharing relevant data. This paper proposes use of a digital twin technology, which is capable to help optimizing the disassembly processes to reduce ecological impact and enhance sustainability. The proposed approach …

📉 Fossil fuel decline, though still nascent, is already hitting countries leading the electric vehicle boom like China and Norway
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-09-20/batteries-bite-into-o…

Batteries bite into oil: Demand slows in China and drops in Norway
Fossil fuel decline, though still nascent, is already hitting countries leading the electric vehicle boom

a world you can fully understand and hold in your head and hand. being the snowman in his globe rather than on yours. where's the water come from? the rain, these tanks. where's the power generated? those solar panels and batteries. you know the limits and work with them. self-sufficient. a fantasy irl, but one of the most universal magic cores you can imbue a fantasy with. no man is an island, no man isn't offputtingly hard to grasp.

"Energy storage could cut Brazil’s electricity system costs 16% in 2029"
#Brazil #Energy #Batteries

Energy storage could cut Brazil’s electricity system costs 16% in 2029
Storage is essential to expand renewables penetration and ensure grid flexibility, according to a study by consultants PSR. Regulatory and tax barriers still limit the sector, however, and new revenue sources are needed to make projects viable.

If the "Fast Fix" jewelry repair kiosk at my local shopping mall ever closes, I'll be sunk. I have this bizarre talent for draining batteries, and the lifetime battery replacement subscription for my analog wristwatch is essential.

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project (2007) - Learn how I switched my office lighting to 100% "off-grid" solar PV, batteries definitely included! #solar #microgen -

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project (2007)
Learn how I switched my office lighting to 100% off-grid solar PV, batteries definitely included! #solar #microgen

"Spain has broken the ruinous link between power prices and volatile fossil fuels, something its European neighbours are desperate to do. Spain risks sliding back into costly gas reliance amid post-blackout fears. Boosting grids and batteries will help Spain break free from fossil dependency for good."
It looks like the link is only partially broken, not through planning but due to scale.
Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the electricity market.

"Building sustainable sodium-ion batteries from wood industry by-products"
#Batteries #Energy
https://

Building sustainable sodium-ion batteries from wood industry by-products
In light of the growing demand for energy storage for the energy transition, there is an urgent need for cost-effective, safe and resource-efficient battery technologies. Sodium-ion batteries based on locally available and environmentally friendly materials offer a promising approach. Fraunhofer researchers and their project partners are working on a sodium-ion battery system based on lignin, a by-product of the wood and pulp industry.

10 million 🔋🚗🚛🚌vehicles on Europe's roads could become an important societal resource, if fit regulation is in place.
My new infographic for Regulatory Assistance Project offers recommendations to 🇪🇺 Member States on how to create a healthy ecosystem for #V2G to scale up.

How to scale V2G in Europe | Jaap Burger
New publication on vehicle-to-grid (#V2G)! Electric vehicles can do much more than just transport people or goods from one place to another. Through smart, bidirectional charging, EV batteries can become an important societal resource. With well over 10 million battery-electric cars, vans and buses already on Europe’s roads, the usable capacity of these mobile batteries is enormous. However, energy regulations are not always ready for these mobile batteries feeding in. Temporary deviations …

💪 Does the US have enough graphite to meet growing energy demand? Yes, but costs, quality are concerns
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-graphite-energy-demand-quality.html

Does the US have enough graphite to meet growing energy demand? Yes, but costs, quality are concerns
New research from the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Co. shows that the United States could mine enough graphite to build batteries for electric vehicles and other applications, but economics and geopolitics make it a complex problem.

The emerald waters of Qarhan Salt Lake on the Tibetan Plateau
beckon tourists
—and hold a bounty of lithium,
a critical ingredient in batteries for cars and renewable energy storage.
Brines in the 160-kilometer-wide lake yielded more than 50,000 tons of lithium carbonate last year,
enough for hundreds of thousands of electric cars.

I have three CO detectors. One on each floor of our house. I also have three smoke detectors, again one on each floor. No such thing as overkill when it comes to CO or smoke.
Tested and batteries changed.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/ar…

Incomplete Air Mixing Reduces the Efficiency of Commercial Buildings Behaving as Virtual Batteries
Austin J. Lin, Jacques A. de Chalendar, Johanna L. Mathieu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02933

Incomplete Air Mixing Reduces the Efficiency of Commercial Buildings Behaving as Virtual Batteries
Commercial building Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems can provide flexibility to the electricity grid. Some researchers have found it convenient to model HVAC systems as virtual batteries. These models also better align with models used by grid planners and operators. However, experiments have shown that HVAC load shifting can be inefficient, and virtual battery models do not capture this inefficiency well. While the models typically use the average room temperature as t…

"Nearly half of solar capacity will be co-located with storage by 2060, says DNV"
#Batteries #Energy #SolarPower

Nearly half of solar capacity will be co-located with storage by 2060, says DNV
DNV's Energy Transition Outlook 2025 report also predicts that distributed generation solar should begin outpacing utility-scale installations in some parts of the world by 2060. It adds that the levelized cost of electricity for solar is beginning to plateau and is expected to slow to an annual drop below 1% by the 2050s.

So the battery I changed in the MSI GS43 VR-7RE last month or so prevented the machine from powering up this morning.
I had to disassemble it to find that out but in the principle that it was the last thing I changed it was a fair enough guess.
Do I bother getting another battery from a different supplier? There's only a couple of actual batteries available and I could just rely on mains for sleeping; it's rarely moved.

@… did you know, that you were quoted by the De Programmatica Ipsum magazine?
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/return-to-innocence/

Yo camera manufacturers: put little ePaper displays on your batteries that show you which camera (make & model) it was last in, plus maybe charge level and battery health. It can’t be that hard or expensive to do this.

Germany is making a big bet on the future of energy storage.
The country is putting €22 million into Moll Batterien's new sodium-ion battery plant in Bavaria—part of a €103 million total investment. Why sodium-ion? It's a promising alternative to lithium batteries.
The plant launches in 2026 with 1 GWh capacity and will create 126 jobs.

Germany backs Moll Batterien sodium-ion battery plant with over €22 million
Moll Batterien has secured more than €22 million ($25.8 million) in public funding for a 1 GWh sodium-ion battery plant in Bavaria, part of a roughly €103 million investment scheduled to come online in 2026.

"Saudi Arabia connects 7.8 GWh battery storage project to grid"
#SaudiArabia #Batteries #Energy

Saudi Arabia connects 7.8 GWh battery storage project to grid
Saudi Electricity Co. has completed a massive storage project across three sites, enhancing grid stability and renewable integration. Once fully operational, the installation will become the world’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS).

A 400 MW virtual power plant of decentralised energy sources, including rooftop solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps, for Germany. It's not quite the GWs envisaged earlier, but it's still an impressive achievement.
https://www.pv-magazine.de/…

Enpal erreicht 400 Megawatt Leistung mit virtuellem Kraftwerk
40.000 Kundinnen und Kunden mit insgesamt 100.000 Photovoltaik-Anlagen, Batteriespeichern, Wallboxen und anderen Einheiten sind Enpal zufolge inzwischen beim Ende 2024 gestarteten „Enpal.One+“ vernetzt. Vom angekündigten Ziel, der Bündelung von mehreren Gigawatt Leistung, ist man aber noch ein gutes Stück entfernt.

Australian household energy bills will⭐️ halve by 2050 ⭐️as solar panels, batteries and electric cars and appliances become the norm,
reducing pressure on the federal government over living costs and creating room for more climate action, a thinktank study suggests.
Modelling by the Grattan Institute finds that cutting greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation in line with the goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050
will cut average household energy costs fro…

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project (2007) - Learn how I switched my office lighting to 100% "off-grid" solar PV, batteries definitely included! #solar #microgen -

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project (2007)
Learn how I switched my office lighting to 100% off-grid solar PV, batteries definitely included! #solar #microgen

tbf I guess not that many people have many dozens of digital cameras with different batteries

Western Australia just hit a major milestone: solar and wind powered 100% of demand on its isolated grid.
Battery storage made it possible, keeping the system stable while renewables did all the work. With coal plants set to retire by decade's end, the state is proving large-scale grids can run entirely on clean energy.

Solar and wind reach 100 pct of demand in biggest isolated grid, as batteries allow it to keep its thermals on
Wind and solar meet all of "net demand" in W.A., host of world's biggest isolated grid, as growing fleet of big batteries give market operator room to keep its thermals on.

Very interesting: German energy regulator @… is contemplating granular (locational, 15-minute basis) dynamic network fees. Prices can work both ways, to guide charging & discharging e.g. from batteries (first target group).

🥙 Battery made from natural materials could replace conventional lithium-ion batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-battery-natural-materials-conventional-lithium.html

Battery made from natural materials could replace conventional lithium-ion batteries
What if the next battery you buy was made from the same kinds of ingredients found in your body? That's the idea behind a breakthrough battery material made from natural, biodegradable components. It's so natural, it could even be consumed as food.

"The 10 biggest clean energy stories of 2025"
#Energy
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/biggest-clean-energy-stories-2025

The 10 biggest clean energy stories of 2025
A so-called energy emergency led to coal plants running past their prime, batteries and EVs had a standout year, and more of this year’s top stories.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ispreview/115269608554719100
This article about Openreach giving two-days notice to remove lithium batteries from co-lo cabinets, was posted about 2 hours before a Li-ion UPS caught fire and took out a South Korean government data centre. Spooky …

How researchers at Microsoft, IBM, and other organizations are using AI to speed up the search for new materials and chemicals for batteries (Andrew Moseman/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-battery-material

AI Drives Battery Innovation at Microsoft, IBM
What if AI could find the perfect battery material in hours, not years? Discover the latest advancements.

Tailoring materials into kirigami robots
Saravana Prashanth Murali Babu, Aida Parvaresh, Ahmad Rafsanjani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07027 https://arxiv.or…

Tailoring materials into kirigami robots
Kirigami, the traditional paper-cutting craft, holds immense potential for revolutionizing robotics by providing multifunctional, lightweight, and adaptable solutions. Kirigami structures, characterized by their bending-dominated deformation, offer resilience to tensile forces and facilitate shape morphing under small actuation forces. Kirigami components such as actuators, sensors, batteries, controllers, and body structures can be tailored to specific robotic applications by optimizing cut pa…

Nitrogen-Triggered Amorphization Enables High-Performance Solid-State Electrolytes
Bolong Hong, Lei Gao, Bingkai Zhang, Pengfei Nan, Ruishan Zhang, Yuhang Li, Zhihao Lei, Ming Liu, Jing Wu, Longbang Di, Haijin Ni, Songbai Han, Jinlong Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09960

Nitrogen-Triggered Amorphization Enables High-Performance Solid-State Electrolytes
Amorphous solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) hold great promise for advancing the application of all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs), owing to their favorable ionic conductivity, structural tunability, and promising electrochemical performance. However, the absence of universal design principles for amorphous SSEs limits their development. By fundamentally re-evaluating the amorphization-forming ability of amorphous SSE systems, this study establishes a nitrogen-driven universal strategy to convert …

“More than 9,000 low carbon assets were registered, including smart electric vehicle (EV) chargers, batteries and heat pumps.
The results highlight a maturing flexibility market, where customers and businesses are helping to strengthen the electricity network while cutting costs and supporting Net Zero.”

Electric cargo ships crossing oceans could be just 3 years away. CATL's marine division has already supplied batteries for 900 vessels and is making big strides with sodium-ion tech.
Falling battery prices are finally making long-range electric shipping economically viable—a huge step toward zero-carbon ocean freight.

CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. News in batteries and electrification has been coming fast and furious lately. Recently, Su Yi, the head of CATL’s marine division, stated, “CATL’s marine business already covers inland rivers, lakes, and coastal waters, and is now advancing toward ocean-going applications.” ... [continued]

Important decision for #V2G in Germany: parliament approves a legislative amendment that exempts electricity stored and supplied by bidirectional charging cars from energy tax and network costs. This makes the business case viable (and equivalent to large stationary batteries).

Bund ebnet Weg für bidirektionales Laden - electrive.net
Der Bundestag hat überraschend eine wichtige Entscheidung zur bisherigen Mehrfach-Belastung von Strom beim bidirektionalen Laden getroffen. Die Netzentgelte

"France revises grid tariffs to spur smarter battery storage use"
#France #Energy #Batteries

France revises grid tariffs to spur smarter battery storage use
France’s updated TURPE 7 framework adds an annual injection-withdrawal charge to incentivize battery energy storage system (BESS) operators to balance grid loads during high demand or surplus generation periods.

"India reaches 490 MWh energy storage capacity by June 2025"
#India #Energy #Batteries

India reaches 490 MWh energy storage capacity by June 2025
Policy incentives and hybrid solar-plus-storage projects are accelerating India’s energy storage sector despite a slowdown in first-half installations.

"Belgium powers up first 400 MWh phase of mainland Europe’s largest battery"
#Bwlgium #Batteries #Energy

Belgium powers up first 400 MWh phase of mainland Europe’s largest battery
Engie and Sungrow have connected the initial 100 MW/400 MWh phase of the Vilvoorde battery project in Belgium, set to reach 200 MW/800 MWh by late 2025.

"Could electric vehicle battery waste fix concrete’s carbon problem?"
#EV #ElectricVehicles #Batteries

Could electric vehicle battery waste fix concrete’s carbon problem?
Lithium waste from electric vehicles could become a vital ingredient in low-carbon concrete, say researchers testing a new environmental solution.

"Brazil eyes April 2026 for first battery storage auction"
#Brazil #Batteries #Energy

Brazil eyes April 2026 for first battery storage auction
A 20-day public consultation is anticipated to open in November to define the guidelines for the auction, which aims to contract 2 GW of battery energy storage systems (BESS). The initiative could unlock around R$10 billion ($1.85 billion) in investments.

"Illinois Is Going All In on Battery Storage. What Will That Mean?"
#US #USA #America #Illinois

Illinois Is Going All In on Battery Storage. What Will That Mean? - Inside Climate News
As power-guzzling data centers proliferate across the country and drive electricity prices up, batteries could be a part of the solution.

"Chart: Clean energy remains dominant in the US — despite Trump"
#US #USA #America #Energy

Chart: Clean energy remains dominant in the US — despite Trump
Trump spent much of 2025 boosting fossil fuels and blocking renewables, but 92% of new power additions through November were solar, wind, or batteries.

"Finnish Town Pioneers Renewable Energy Storage Solutions with World’s Largest Sand Battery"
#Finland #Energy #Renewables

Finnish Town Pioneers Renewable Energy Storage Solutions with World's Largest Sand Battery | Happy Eco News
Finland's renewable energy storage solutions using the world's largest sand battery cut emissions by 70% in Pornainen. The system stores 100 megawatt-hours of thermal energy from solar and wind sources, heating the entire town for weeks while eliminating oil dependence and reducing costs.

"Germany eases rules to accelerate battery heat and hydrogen storage"
#Germany #Batteries #Hydrogen #Energy

Germany eases rules to accelerate battery heat and hydrogen storage
Germany is preparing to ease planning rules for battery, heat, and hydrogen storage systems built outside urban zones.

"Study finds EVs quickly overcome their energy-intensive build to be cleaner than gas cars"
#EV #ElectricVehicles #Cars

Study finds EVs quickly overcome their energy-intensive build to be cleaner than gas cars
Making electric vehicles and their batteries is a dirty process that uses a lot of energy. But a new study says that EVs quickly make up for that with less overall emissions through two years of use than a gas-powered vehicle.

"California has a new law to prevent big grid battery fires"
#US #USA #America #California

California has a new law to prevent big grid battery fires
The state enhanced battery safety rules in response to the Moss Landing fire. The industry is on board, hoping better standards will reassure the public.