Honda wants in on the lucrative energy storage market. This week it began producing batteries destined for data centers, not driveways.
Base Power is skipping the PJM’s troubled interconnection queue by placing its batteries at people’s homes, offering backup services in exchange.

Tesla and independent energy firm NatPower have reached a deal to build 25 gigawatt-hours of battery storage in Italy and Britain, the first phase of a program worth up to $5 billion.
Under the multiyear agreement, NatPower will deploy Tesla’s Megapack…

Drew Baglino spent nearly two decades building Tesla’s batteries, motors, and power electronics. Now the former Tesla SVP is quietly building the one home energy product Tesla talked up for years and never shipped: a residential heat pump.
His startup,…
Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.
Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts worth by 2030.
GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.

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“Why are you here?” Fabrizio Pilo, an electrical engineer, asks me as we sit in an outdoor café near his home in Cagliari, an ancient city on the island of Sardinia. It’s a fair question. I’m a journalist from the United States. I’d just stepped off m…
Form Energy and Redwood Materials both received orders from the data center developer.