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LA Is Putting Floating Solar and an Iron Battery on a Reservoir
LADWP approved a pilot at Encino Reservoir with a 5 MW floating solar array on 10 acres of water and a 5 MW iron flow battery to store the power.
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Antora Is Building a 5.8 GWh Battery in Kansas Made of Hot Carbon Blocks
Antora Energy plans a 5.8 gigawatt hour thermal battery at Pratt Energy's biorefinery in Pratt, Kansas. It stores cheap electricity as heat in carbon blocks and starts supplying energy in 2027.
Energy
EnergyX Just Landed a $2 Billion Lithium Deal With Trafigura
EnergyX signed a 10 year deal to sell 100,000 metric tons of battery grade lithium to commodity giant Trafigura, worth about $2 billion at today's prices, from projects in Chile and Texas.
Energy
Commonwealth Fusion Is Building a Digital Copy of Its Fusion Machine to Speed Things Up
The Department of Energy picked Commonwealth Fusion Systems to lead a project building a digital twin of SPARC, its fusion machine in Massachusetts. Google DeepMind, NVIDIA and four national labs are on the team.
Energy
A 600 MW Solar and Battery Farm Is Replacing an Old Coal Town's Power Plant
The UK approved RES's Steeple Renewables Project in Nottinghamshire, right next to the old West Burton coal plant. It pairs solar and batteries with up to 600 MW of grid connection, enough for about 180,000 homes.
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Chile Turned an Old Coal Site Into a 5 Hour Battery the Size of 160 Shipping Containers
ENGIE Chile switched on BESS Lile, a 142 MW, 802 MWh battery at its Mejillones energy complex. It can run for five hours, cost $174 million, and was built on land and wiring meant for more fossil fuel plants.
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Batteries Now Beat Gas 'Peaker' Plants on Cost in All 43 Markets Studied
A new Wood Mackenzie report says four-hour battery storage is now cheaper than new open-cycle gas plants in all 43 markets where it compared them. In the U.S., a spokesperson said batteries are 65 to 75 percent cheaper.
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QuantumScape Wants Its Solid-State Batteries Inside AI Server Racks
On Oct. 8, QuantumScape unveiled the QS PowerBlock, a solid-state battery design for in-rack backup power in AI data centers. The company claims 4x the power density and 5x the runtime of an industry spec, and will show it at the OCP Global Summit Oct. 12 to 15.
Energy
General Fusion Hit 12 Million Degrees by Squeezing Plasma With a Metal Wall
On Oct. 8, General Fusion and the UK Atomic Energy Authority said its LM26 machine heated plasma electrons past 1 keV, about 12.6 million degrees Celsius, using slow compression from a metal liner. Next up is 10 keV, then the Lawson criterion, targeted by the end of 2028.
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Google Is Paying to Squeeze 890 MW More Out of 11 Old Nuclear Reactors
On Oct. 6, Google and Constellation signed a 20-year deal to fund upgrades at 11 existing nuclear units in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The goal is 890 MW of brand new capacity on the PJM grid, with the first uprate due by 2028 and all of it by the end of 2032.
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South Africa Has Too Much Solar at Noon. Now It Wants 4,600 MW of Batteries.
On Oct. 7 South Africa's electricity minister signed off on procuring 4,600 MW of battery storage and 5,000 MW of gas power. The goal is to stop wasting midday solar and keep the grid steady when the sun goes down.
Energy
Type One Energy Raised $200M to Chase a 2034 Fusion Plant in Tennessee
On Oct. 6 the Knoxville stellarator startup closed a $200 million Series B aimed at Infinity Two, a planned 400 MW plant at TVA's Bull Run site, with CFS magnet tech in the design.
SpaceEnergy
Star Catcher Is in Orbit to Try Beaming Power Between Two Satellites
Star Catcher's Protostar launched Oct. 1 on SpaceX's Transporter-18. Over the next few months it will release a CubeSat and try to beam power with light onto its solar panels, which Star Catcher says would be a first.
Energy
ITER Just Got the Last Big Piece of Its Fusion Machine
Europe's fifth and final vacuum vessel sector reached the ITER site in France on Oct. 2. ITER says every core component of the machine is now on site. Research operations are still set to start in 2034.
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JERA, Dell, and RHAELM plan a 400 MW AI site in Chiba.
On Oct. 1, 2026 the three signed a memo for a behind the meter AI project at JERA's Chiba Thermal Power Station. Up to 400 MW. Capital expected above $15 billion. Operations targeted around 2028. Not built yet.