Ballard Power plans $160 million Texas giga factory with 3 GW fuel cell capacity

Hydrogen fuel cell company Ballard Power Systems announced it planned to invest $160 million to set up a new giga factory in Rockwell, Texas, to manufacture fuel cell components an... Read More

US eyes second wind auction in Gulf of Mexico, but costs are 30% higher than Europe, says chief of RWE

Offshore wind development costs in the US are 30 percent higher than what they are in Europe, the CEO of Germany's biggest utility revealed, even as the US government considered la... Read More

SSE Thermal, Equinor evaluate 900 MW hydrogen power station in England

UK's SSE Thermal and Norway's Equinor are planning to develop a 900 MW hydrogen-fired power station at Keadby in North Lincolnshire, UK, that will become operational from 2030. The... Read More

JSW-MG Motors combine eyes top spot in NEVs, targets 1 million EV sales by 2030

JSW Group and MG Motors have officially joined hands to form a new company focused on new electric vehicles (NEVs) in India. The JV -- JSW MG Motor India Pvt Ltd -- will launch a n... Read More

SESI 2024: GoodEnough Energy announces India's largest BESS manufacturing facility in J&K

GoodEnough Energy, India's first manufacturer of battery energy storage systems, announced it will invest ₹450 crore to set up a 20 GWh per annum capacity plant in Jammu & Kash... Read More

SESI 2024: IESA brings stakeholders under one roof to deliberate on India's stationary energy storage sector

The India Energy Storage Alliance, India's premier body for companies operating in the energy storage, e-mobility and green hydrogen space, launched its 4th international conferenc... Read More

After batteries, China eyes green hydrogen capacity in Vietnam

Huadian Group, a Chinese government-owned undertaking, is looking to set up a $2.4 billion green hydrogen plant in Vietnam, news emerged. The company has partnered with Vietnam's M... Read More

Western Australia begins construction on 500 MW Collie BESS project

Synergy, the government-owned utility of Australia's Western Australia state, announced it had begun construction of its third grid-scale battery as part of efforts to move away fr... Read More

India unveils new EV policy to make country a global manufacturing hub

India has approved a scheme to promote the country as a manufacturing destination for electric vehicles, a release on the Press Information Bureau, the country's government news se... Read More

US DoE lends Lithum Americas $2.26 bn to get Nevada mine up and running

Mining company Lithium Americas announced it will get up to $2.26 billion in loans from the US Department of Energy (DoE) to build its Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada, USA. ... Read More

US offers $750 mn for 52 green hydrogen projects to boost fuel cell, electrolyzer output and cut costs

The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced $750 million in assistance for 52 clean (also called green) hydrogen projects across 24 mainland states to help reduce cos... Read More

Battery recycling company Lohum raises $54 million in Series B funding

Battery recycling and reuse company Lohum Cleantech has raised ₹450 crore (about $54 million) as a part of its ongoing Series B round of funding, according to multiple media report... Read More

ACEN, Marubeni to develop 400 MWh battery in New South Wales, Australia

ACEN Australia announced the company had signed an agreement with Marubeni Asian Power (Singapore) to jointly develop a 200 MW/ 400 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in New ... Read More

India's coal ministry targets 9 GW renewable capacity of its own by 2030

India's coal ministry is looking to ramp-up deployment of renewable power to reduce its carbon footprint. It is aiming to have 9 GW of renewable capacity by 2030, and a roadmap to ... Read More

India to call stakeholder meeting for specialized cylinders for storing GH2

India's Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is looking to convene a meeting of stakeholders to discuss the development of specialized cylinders that can store green h... Read More

SSE Renewables picks OCU Energy, Fluence for 150 MW Fiddler’s Ferry BESS

SSE Renewables announced that OCU Energy would be its principal contractor for the 150 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) project at Fiddler's Ferry, Warrington in north-weste... Read More

NatPower reveals £10 billion plan for 60 GWh battery storage capacity across UK

NatPower UK, the British arm of European clean energy developer NatPower Group, has announced plans to invest over £10 billion developing battery energy storage systems across the ... Read More

BESS turns cheaper: Gensol, IndiGrid win Gujarat's 250 MW auction at ₹ 4.49 lakh / MW per month

Gensol Engineering and IndiGrid 2 Ltd were declared the winners of Gujarat's auction for the development of 250 MW/ 500 MWh Standalone Battery Energy Storage Systems in the state.G... Read More

GH2 hurdle: electrolyzer costs have jumped 50 percent, warns BloombergNEF

Rising material costs have made electrolyzers more expensive, in turn making green hydrogen a more expensive proposition, BloombergNEF reports in its Electrolyzer Price Survey 2024... Read More

Jindal Stainless starts using green hydrogen at Hisar plant

Jindal Stainless (JSL) announced it has commenced the maiden usage of green hydrogen in the company's stainless steel plant in Hisar, Haryana, from what is India's first commercial... Read More

Microsoft AI designs batteries with 70 percent less lithium, identifies 18 new battery materials

Microsoft has used artificial intelligence to identify promising new battery materials for the US Department of Energy using (DoE). This use of AI enabled the company to come up wi... Read More

India cuts royalties for mining 12 critical minerals, including Vanadium

India's Cabinet has approved new royalty rates for mining of 12 critical and strategic minerals -- Beryllium, Cadmium, Cobalt, Gallium, Indium, Rhenium, Selenium, Tantalum, Telluri... Read More

India to launch second tranche of auction of critical and strategic mineral blocks

India will launch the second tranche of auction of critical and strategic mineral blocks on February 29, the government informed in a press release. Union Minister of Coal, Mines &... Read More

BYD Americas chief says Mexico plant by year end, but no plans for exports to USA

Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD has no plans of selling its passenger EVs in the US and finds the market "complicated" and "confusing", the CEO of its Americas operation said. S... Read More

Energy Vault starts construction on largest US green hydrogen storage

Energy Vault announced it has started of construction on the Calistoga Resiliency Center (CRC), the largest green hydrogen storage project in the US. The project is being developed... Read More

SECI commissions India's largest BESS project in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh

India has successfully commissioned the country's largest energy storage project, a 40 MW / 120 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) connected to a 152 MWh solar photovoltaic p... Read More

Europe offers $400 mn for Italian green H2 valley that will decarbonize steel

European authorities have decided to offer up to €370 million ($400 million) to Italian companies seeking to set up a 'Green Hydrogen Valley' in the country's southern region of Pu... Read More

Global energy landscape is set for a transformation with hydrogen

Traction for establishing strong hydrogen ecosystems is underway in different parts of the world. Governments are realizing the ideal positioning of their countries in hydrogen sup... Read More

Scientists demonstrate two new battery chemistries: water and calcium

Scientific teams working in Australia and China have demonstrated two new battery chemistries that could supplant lithium-ion batteries in the coming years, thus overcoming the pos... Read More

US DoE announces $710 mn in loans to EV tech makers

The US Department of Energy announced it has issued preliminary approval for nearly $710 million in loans to companies manufacturing electric vehicle (EV) components. The lion's sh... Read More
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