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Liander and Enedix, two of the Netherlands’ largest distribution system operators (DSO), appealed to private energy consumers to temper their expectations as the country deals with its seriously congested electricity grid. According to Liander, the largest Dutch DSO, around 7,300 customers are waiting longer than desired to connect to the grid in order to upgrade an existing small-scale consumption connection to a new or heavier power connection. This places restrictions on customers who want to add a heat pump or charging station to their home or business. Liander’s Chief Operations Officer, Sarike van Wette, says that a heavier connection is…

Toyota Racing will conduct the first public demonstration runs of its liquid hydrogen-powered TR LH2 Racing Prototype at the Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France next week. “The TR LH2 Racing Prototype is based on the same chassis as the TR010 HYBRID Hypercar that will compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans from June 13 to 14. It is intended to promote the development of hydrogen technology in motorsport,” said the Japanese car manufacturer. A research team in China Dalian Institute for Chemical Physics proposed a new hydrogen-electricity co-storage system by coupling gas-solid hydrogen batteries (g-HIB) with…

As large-scale solar, wind and battery projects change the way electricity is generated and stored, households have quietly scored a recent victory with the Cheaper Home Batteries Program delivering 10.7 GWh of storage to the grid. Australia’s years spent solving the supply side of the energy transition have finally paid off at a time when the world is facing a global oil crisis that is accelerating the pace of electrification. This is reflected in how quickly Australian consumers are turning their attention to electrification. Nearly 16,000 electric vehicles were sold in Australia in March, rising to one in six vehicles…

The energy transition forces us to solve problems that are often complex, interconnected and in many cases unprecedented. No individual, company or discipline has all the answers. In that environment, leadership is less about having the right answer yourself and more about creating conditions in which the best ideas can emerge from the collective expertise of a team. For me, inclusive leadership is a decision-making benefit rather than a social objective. People with different backgrounds, experiences, and ways of thinking will often identify risks, opportunities, or unintended consequences that others overlook. The challenge is to ensure that these perspectives are…

In this blog, Rishi Srivastava, co-founder of Offgrid Energy Labs, which has developed an alternative battery chemistry that it will start producing in Britain in July, argues that to ensure energy security, Britain must look to globally abundant materials for its energy storage needs.For seventy years, British governments have written energy security plans against the same recurring threats: oil shocks and gas shortages. The vocabulary is so familiar to ministers that they reach for it without thinking: Diversify supply, build up storage, maintain the strategic reserve, lean on allies. The UK’s net zero transition plans use much the same vocabulary.…

Energy Minister Michael Shanks says community batteries can “put power back in the hands of local people”.He commented on the potential of the technology as the UK government has launched a call for evidence to gather views on how shared battery storage could be rolled out in the UK.The UK market is currently underdeveloped for community batteries, which enable shared access to the savings associated with battery energy storage systems (BESS), the government has said. The call for evidence will gather insights on how to scale up implementation, remove regulatory and commercial barriers, ensure safety and ensure benefits reach those…

Arctech has signed an agreement with PowerChina’s East China Electric Power Design Institute for the ADQ solar project in the United Arab Emirates, with a capacity of 2,091 MW. The agreement was signed on June 3 during SNEC 2026 in Shanghai. Arctech also signed a memorandum of understanding with Anhui Zhonghong New Energy for a 1 GW energy storage project aimed at deploying an integrated solar-plus-storage system. China Energy Engineering Corp. (Energy China) has released its 2026 centralized tender for PV inverters. The tender includes eight lots with a joint estimated purchasing volume of 20 GW. One plot includes central…

By Martin McConnell June 4, 2026 Chicago electric company Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) has launched its new ComEd Breweries Pilot in Illinois, heralding the new program with a $30,000 distributed generation rebate for Chicago’s own Brewing revolution. The program is intended to help small and medium microbreweries reduce their rising energy costs and focuses on equipment and processes specific to breweries, wineries and distillers, ComEd says. The company’s recently implemented pilot project takes a “customer-centric approach” to billing savings and energy management practices, with a focus on underserved communities in the Chicagoland area. “As the costs of materials such as aluminum…

“The landscape is generally quite good in terms of how it can evolve and how it can develop,” Anastasios Christakis, COO of Queequeg Renewables, told our colleagues at PV Tech Premium at last month’s Renewables Procurement & Revenue Summit, where he spoke about the policy environment for UK solar projects.Hosted by Solar energy portal Publisher Solar Media in London, the event brought together around 200 industry experts to discuss the financial landscape of Britain and Europe, and speakers were generally optimistic about the direction in which renewable energy investment would take in Britain, with the Contracts for Difference (CfD) program…

According to figures from GlobalData, Malaysia is on track to reach 29.7 GW of solar capacity by 2035. The consultancy expects solar capacity in Malaysia to rise from 5.8 GW at the end of last year to 7.3 GW at the end of this year, an increase of 1.5 GW. According to the analysis, solar deployment is expected to reach 1.9 GW next year, before annual deployment increases to 2.4 GW to 2.7 GW per year until 2035. This trajectory would see Malaysia surpass 10 GW of solar power by 2028 and 20 GW of solar power by 2032, leaving…