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  1. I scored two brand new 5kWh batteries, but I need to strip the built in proprietary electronics for my own, so I can tie it into all the rest of the house batteries. So these shiny new BMS with built in active balancing will do the trick! #solar #batteries #renewables

  2. NeoVolta announces battery manufacturing collaboration with SK On

    By Martin McConnell September 2, 2026 Energy technology firm NeoVolta and its subsidiary NeoVolta Power have entered into…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #SK #batteries #BESS #ESS #Manufacturing #NeoVolta #SKGroup #SKOn #storage
    europesays.com/korea/141437/

  3. EU approves German capacity mechanism

    The European Commission approved, under EU state aid rules, Germany’s capacity mechanism under the StromVKG, which is due…
    #Europe #EU #EuropeanCommission #batteries #energystorage #Germany
    europesays.com/europe/128976/

  4. The European Commission has approved Germany’s capacity mechanism, clearing the way for up to €35.2 billion in state support for generation, storage and demand-side flexibility.#Batteries #EnergyStorage #Germany
    EU approves German capacity mechanism - pv magazine Global
  5. The European Commission has approved Germany’s capacity mechanism, clearing the way for up to €35.2 billion in state support for generation, storage and demand-side flexibility.#Batteries #EnergyStorage #Germany
    EU approves German capacity mechanism - pv magazine Global
  6. Texas Instruments’ new BQ79826Z-Q1 battery monitor integrates EIS to actively diagnose LFP cell health, improving accuracy over traditional voltage-based BMS monitoring.#Batteries #EnergyStorage
    Texas Instruments introduces chip-level diagnostics to improve grid-scale battery cell safety - pv magazine Global
  7. Texas Instruments’ new BQ79826Z-Q1 battery monitor integrates EIS to actively diagnose LFP cell health, improving accuracy over traditional voltage-based BMS monitoring.#Batteries #EnergyStorage
    Texas Instruments introduces chip-level diagnostics to improve grid-scale battery cell safety - pv magazine Global
  8. Research by the International Renewable Energy Agency finds over 397,000 settlements across the four countries could be served by mini-grids with batteries.#Africa #Batteries #Highlights #OffGrid
    Batteries key to mini-grid electrification in Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal - pv magazine Global
  9. Research by the International Renewable Energy Agency finds over 397,000 settlements across the four countries could be served by mini-grids with batteries.#Africa #Batteries #Highlights #OffGrid
    Batteries key to mini-grid electrification in Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal - pv magazine Global
  10. Midnight power raid by big batteries in regulator’s crosshairs
    By Daniel Mercer

    Batteries have been hailed as an antidote to price pain but strange charging behaviour in WA has pushed the market higher. Now the regulator is preparing to intervene.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-02/wa-

    #Batteries #ElectricityProductionandDistribution #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #DanielMercer

  11. Midnight power raid by big batteries in regulator’s crosshairs
    By Daniel Mercer

    Batteries have been hailed as an antidote to price pain but strange charging behaviour in WA has pushed the market higher. Now the regulator is preparing to intervene.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-02/wa-

    #Batteries #ElectricityProductionandDistribution #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #DanielMercer

  12. Midnight power raid by big batteries in regulator’s crosshairs
    By Daniel Mercer

    Batteries have been hailed as an antidote to price pain but strange charging behaviour in WA has pushed the market higher. Now the regulator is preparing to intervene.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-02/wa-

    #Batteries #ElectricityProductionandDistribution #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #DanielMercer

  13. Midnight power raid by big batteries in regulator’s crosshairs
    By Daniel Mercer

    Batteries have been hailed as an antidote to price pain but strange charging behaviour in WA has pushed the market higher. Now the regulator is preparing to intervene.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-02/wa-

    #Batteries #ElectricityProductionandDistribution #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #DanielMercer

  14. Midnight power raid by big batteries in regulator’s crosshairs
    By Daniel Mercer

    Batteries have been hailed as an antidote to price pain but strange charging behaviour in WA has pushed the market higher. Now the regulator is preparing to intervene.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-02/wa-

    #Batteries #ElectricityProductionandDistribution #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #DanielMercer

  15. Three years on: how much has the EU Batteries Regulation changed the BESS market?

    Perhaps the most consistent industry criticism has not been the Regulation’s ambition but the difficulty of implementing it…
    #Europe #EU #batteries #batteriesregulation #end-of-life #EuropeanUnion #recycling #secondlife
    europesays.com/europe/128019/

  16. China has begun taxing lithium-ion batteries at 2% from Sept. 1, 2026, ending a decade-long exemption; the rate will rise to 4% in September 2027, while emerging technologies such as sodium-ion and solid-state batteries remain temporarily exempt.#Batteries #China #EnergyStorage
    China restores 2% lithium-ion battery tax after 11-year exemption - pv magazine Global
  17. China has begun taxing lithium-ion batteries at 2% from Sept. 1, 2026, ending a decade-long exemption; the rate will rise to 4% in September 2027, while emerging technologies such as sodium-ion and solid-state batteries remain temporarily exempt.#Batteries #China #EnergyStorage
    China restores 2% lithium-ion battery tax after 11-year exemption - pv magazine Global
  18. According to S&P Global, rising negative electricity prices are reshaping solar, storage and PPAs across Europe. Wider price spreads are strengthening the case for batteries and more structured renewable energy ontracts.#Batteries #EnergyStorage #Europe #Utility-scale
    Negative prices reshape Europe’s solar, storage and PPA markets - pv magazine Global
  19. According to S&P Global, rising negative electricity prices are reshaping solar, storage and PPAs across Europe. Wider price spreads are strengthening the case for batteries and more structured renewable energy ontracts.#Batteries #EnergyStorage #Europe #Utility-scale
    Negative prices reshape Europe’s solar, storage and PPA markets - pv magazine Global
  20. According to S&P Global, rising negative electricity prices are reshaping solar, storage and PPAs across Europe. Wider price spreads are strengthening the case for batteries and more structured renewable energy ontracts.#Batteries #EnergyStorage #Europe #Utility-scale
    Negative prices reshape Europe’s solar, storage and PPA markets - pv magazine Global
  21. BW ESS has broken ground at the 5.7 GWh Klostermansfeld battery energy storage system (BESS), making a splash in the German market and building on utility-scale BESS experience gained in the United Kingdom.#Batteries #BESS #EnergyStorage #Shipping
    Shipping gigawatt-hours of battery storage - pv magazine Global
  22. BW ESS has broken ground at the 5.7 GWh Klostermansfeld battery energy storage system (BESS), making a splash in the German market and building on utility-scale BESS experience gained in the United Kingdom.#Batteries #BESS #EnergyStorage #Shipping
    Shipping gigawatt-hours of battery storage - pv magazine Global
  23. Kind of a naive question about residential photovoltaics

    How feasible is it to install a big battery at home to become self sufficient?

    I was thinking 150 or 200 kWh? Do these systems exist, is sodium there yet, etc

    There is space here for about a dozen 500 W or so panels, that’s just above 7 kWc as I was told (I don’t understand their math). Daily electricity usage is certainly less than 10 kWh all year, often closer to 6. Everything is electric, big spikes while cooking.

    I know the summer would have a lot of over production that wouldn’t sell well, and spring/fall would probably be just about even; winter would likely need to charge at night (in the Paris area, France).

    (I know how much the air/water heat pump makes this a crazy idea that requires cross seasonal storage that doesn’t exist yet, residentially, so let’s leave it out)

    #photovoltaics #batteries #OffGridSolar

  24. Answer: "No."

    Most #CriticalMinerals are on #IndigenousLands. Will miners respect #TribalSovereignty?

    by Taylar Dawn Stagner, March 26, 2025

    "#Mining — whether for #FossilFuels or, increasingly, the critical minerals in high demand today — has a long history of perpetuating violence against #IndigenousPeople. Forcibly removing tribal communities to get to natural resources tied to their homelands has been the rule, not the exception, for centuries.

    "Today, more than half of the mineral deposits needed for a global energy transition — including #lithium, #cobalt, #copper, and #nickel to make things like #batteries and #SolarPanels — are found near or beneath Indigenous lands.

    "In 2007, the United Nations adopted a resolution called the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [#UNDRIP] that included the right to free, prior, and informed consent to the use of their lands, a concept known as #FPIC. This principle protects #IndigenousPeoples from being forcibly relocated, provides suitable avenues for redress of past injustices, and gives tribes and communities the right to consent to — and the right to refuse — #extractive industry projects like #mining.

    "There’s a lot at stake: When followed, FPIC promises a process that gives Indigenous peoples a voice in how their homelands are used, as well as the right to say no to development altogether. And when it’s not, which is the vast majority of the time, #TribalCommunities are further #disenfranchised, facing #violence and #ForcedRelocation as their #sovereignty and rights are ignored.

    "There are an estimated 5,000 tribal communities around the world, encompassing roughly 476 million people across 90 countries, according to the U.N. Different tribes have different opinions on mining, but rarely is their legal right to refuse extraction projects recognized, even under the 2007 declaration.

    "Grist talked with five experts to better understand what free, prior, and informed consent should look like in this new era of mineral extraction. Their responses have been edited for length and clarity."

    Read more:
    ictnews.org/news/most-critical

    #CanPol #CanadaPol #BigOilAndGas #LandBack #IndigenousSovereignty #TribalSovereignty #LithiumMining #RecycleLithium #LithiumAlternatives #RecycleCopper

  25. Answer: "No."

    Most #CriticalMinerals are on #IndigenousLands. Will miners respect #TribalSovereignty?

    by Taylar Dawn Stagner, March 26, 2025

    "#Mining — whether for #FossilFuels or, increasingly, the critical minerals in high demand today — has a long history of perpetuating violence against #IndigenousPeople. Forcibly removing tribal communities to get to natural resources tied to their homelands has been the rule, not the exception, for centuries.

    "Today, more than half of the mineral deposits needed for a global energy transition — including #lithium, #cobalt, #copper, and #nickel to make things like #batteries and #SolarPanels — are found near or beneath Indigenous lands.

    "In 2007, the United Nations adopted a resolution called the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [#UNDRIP] that included the right to free, prior, and informed consent to the use of their lands, a concept known as #FPIC. This principle protects #IndigenousPeoples from being forcibly relocated, provides suitable avenues for redress of past injustices, and gives tribes and communities the right to consent to — and the right to refuse — #extractive industry projects like #mining.

    "There’s a lot at stake: When followed, FPIC promises a process that gives Indigenous peoples a voice in how their homelands are used, as well as the right to say no to development altogether. And when it’s not, which is the vast majority of the time, #TribalCommunities are further #disenfranchised, facing #violence and #ForcedRelocation as their #sovereignty and rights are ignored.

    "There are an estimated 5,000 tribal communities around the world, encompassing roughly 476 million people across 90 countries, according to the U.N. Different tribes have different opinions on mining, but rarely is their legal right to refuse extraction projects recognized, even under the 2007 declaration.

    "Grist talked with five experts to better understand what free, prior, and informed consent should look like in this new era of mineral extraction. Their responses have been edited for length and clarity."

    Read more:
    ictnews.org/news/most-critical

    #CanPol #CanadaPol #BigOilAndGas #LandBack #IndigenousSovereignty #TribalSovereignty #LithiumMining #RecycleLithium #LithiumAlternatives #RecycleCopper

  26. Answer: "No."

    Most #CriticalMinerals are on #IndigenousLands. Will miners respect #TribalSovereignty?

    by Taylar Dawn Stagner, March 26, 2025

    "#Mining — whether for #FossilFuels or, increasingly, the critical minerals in high demand today — has a long history of perpetuating violence against #IndigenousPeople. Forcibly removing tribal communities to get to natural resources tied to their homelands has been the rule, not the exception, for centuries.

    "Today, more than half of the mineral deposits needed for a global energy transition — including #lithium, #cobalt, #copper, and #nickel to make things like #batteries and #SolarPanels — are found near or beneath Indigenous lands.

    "In 2007, the United Nations adopted a resolution called the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [#UNDRIP] that included the right to free, prior, and informed consent to the use of their lands, a concept known as #FPIC. This principle protects #IndigenousPeoples from being forcibly relocated, provides suitable avenues for redress of past injustices, and gives tribes and communities the right to consent to — and the right to refuse — #extractive industry projects like #mining.

    "There’s a lot at stake: When followed, FPIC promises a process that gives Indigenous peoples a voice in how their homelands are used, as well as the right to say no to development altogether. And when it’s not, which is the vast majority of the time, #TribalCommunities are further #disenfranchised, facing #violence and #ForcedRelocation as their #sovereignty and rights are ignored.

    "There are an estimated 5,000 tribal communities around the world, encompassing roughly 476 million people across 90 countries, according to the U.N. Different tribes have different opinions on mining, but rarely is their legal right to refuse extraction projects recognized, even under the 2007 declaration.

    "Grist talked with five experts to better understand what free, prior, and informed consent should look like in this new era of mineral extraction. Their responses have been edited for length and clarity."

    Read more:
    ictnews.org/news/most-critical

    #CanPol #CanadaPol #BigOilAndGas #LandBack #IndigenousSovereignty #TribalSovereignty #LithiumMining #RecycleLithium #LithiumAlternatives #RecycleCopper

  27. Answer: "No."

    Most #CriticalMinerals are on #IndigenousLands. Will miners respect #TribalSovereignty?

    by Taylar Dawn Stagner, March 26, 2025

    "#Mining — whether for #FossilFuels or, increasingly, the critical minerals in high demand today — has a long history of perpetuating violence against #IndigenousPeople. Forcibly removing tribal communities to get to natural resources tied to their homelands has been the rule, not the exception, for centuries.

    "Today, more than half of the mineral deposits needed for a global energy transition — including #lithium, #cobalt, #copper, and #nickel to make things like #batteries and #SolarPanels — are found near or beneath Indigenous lands.

    "In 2007, the United Nations adopted a resolution called the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [#UNDRIP] that included the right to free, prior, and informed consent to the use of their lands, a concept known as #FPIC. This principle protects #IndigenousPeoples from being forcibly relocated, provides suitable avenues for redress of past injustices, and gives tribes and communities the right to consent to — and the right to refuse — #extractive industry projects like #mining.

    "There’s a lot at stake: When followed, FPIC promises a process that gives Indigenous peoples a voice in how their homelands are used, as well as the right to say no to development altogether. And when it’s not, which is the vast majority of the time, #TribalCommunities are further #disenfranchised, facing #violence and #ForcedRelocation as their #sovereignty and rights are ignored.

    "There are an estimated 5,000 tribal communities around the world, encompassing roughly 476 million people across 90 countries, according to the U.N. Different tribes have different opinions on mining, but rarely is their legal right to refuse extraction projects recognized, even under the 2007 declaration.

    "Grist talked with five experts to better understand what free, prior, and informed consent should look like in this new era of mineral extraction. Their responses have been edited for length and clarity."

    Read more:
    ictnews.org/news/most-critical

    #CanPol #CanadaPol #BigOilAndGas #LandBack #IndigenousSovereignty #TribalSovereignty #LithiumMining #RecycleLithium #LithiumAlternatives #RecycleCopper

  28. Answer: "No."

    Most #CriticalMinerals are on #IndigenousLands. Will miners respect #TribalSovereignty?

    by Taylar Dawn Stagner, March 26, 2025

    "#Mining — whether for #FossilFuels or, increasingly, the critical minerals in high demand today — has a long history of perpetuating violence against #IndigenousPeople. Forcibly removing tribal communities to get to natural resources tied to their homelands has been the rule, not the exception, for centuries.

    "Today, more than half of the mineral deposits needed for a global energy transition — including #lithium, #cobalt, #copper, and #nickel to make things like #batteries and #SolarPanels — are found near or beneath Indigenous lands.

    "In 2007, the United Nations adopted a resolution called the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [#UNDRIP] that included the right to free, prior, and informed consent to the use of their lands, a concept known as #FPIC. This principle protects #IndigenousPeoples from being forcibly relocated, provides suitable avenues for redress of past injustices, and gives tribes and communities the right to consent to — and the right to refuse — #extractive industry projects like #mining.

    "There’s a lot at stake: When followed, FPIC promises a process that gives Indigenous peoples a voice in how their homelands are used, as well as the right to say no to development altogether. And when it’s not, which is the vast majority of the time, #TribalCommunities are further #disenfranchised, facing #violence and #ForcedRelocation as their #sovereignty and rights are ignored.

    "There are an estimated 5,000 tribal communities around the world, encompassing roughly 476 million people across 90 countries, according to the U.N. Different tribes have different opinions on mining, but rarely is their legal right to refuse extraction projects recognized, even under the 2007 declaration.

    "Grist talked with five experts to better understand what free, prior, and informed consent should look like in this new era of mineral extraction. Their responses have been edited for length and clarity."

    Read more:
    ictnews.org/news/most-critical

    #CanPol #CanadaPol #BigOilAndGas #LandBack #IndigenousSovereignty #TribalSovereignty #LithiumMining #RecycleLithium #LithiumAlternatives #RecycleCopper

  29. We need to shift from the grid as the primary source of electricity, with renewables and batteries as individualized backups, to the other way around.

    Being one solar event away from the collapse of our society, individualized sources of electricity can be protected by Faraday cages, with the grid (relieved of strain) serving remote areas and backing up individual solutions in the event of failure.

    #link: youtu.be/TsmlyqZJOug

    #electricity #SolarFlares #renewables #batteries

  30. Friday, July 11, 2025

    What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  31. Friday, July 11, 2025

    What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  32. Friday, July 11, 2025

    What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  33. Friday, July 11, 2025

    What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  34. Friday, July 11, 2025

    What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  35. More of this, please! More #recycling, #LessMining!

    More than 600K pounds of #ElectronicWaste (#EWaste) has been diverted from landfills thanks to #Colorado teenagers
    Over the past 12 years, #CañonCity High School students have prepped and delivered mostly electronic waste to 3R Technology Solutions

    by Sue McMillin
    Feb 14, 2024

    CAÑON CITY — "More than 600,000 pounds of mostly electronic waste has been diverted from landfills over the past 12 years by the students who run #TigerRecycling at Cañon City High School.
    To be precise: 623,702 pounds of #laptops, dismantled #desktops, #cellphones, #printers, #televisions, and the assorted detritus of outdated, broken, waterlogged or unwanted gear has been prepped by students and delivered to 3R Technology Solutions, according to 3R CEO Pete Mikulin, who says they track every pound that comes through the doors.

    "Amid the haul were assorted #SmallAppliances#mixers, #SewingMachines, #toasters — and #batteries and #cords that students disassemble or sort. Tiger Recycling and 3R, its primary vendor, take just about anything that plugs in or runs on batteries except for large appliances such as washers and dryers.

    "While all this stuff is getting #reused or #repurposed, the students learn how to take things apart, safely handle potentially #HazardousWaste, identify and sort materials (such as clean or dirty #aluminum, #steel and #plastic), prepare items for shipping, fill out bills of lading, and take in and weigh items from customers.

    "This student-run business is unique in a couple of other ways: Tiger Recycling is certified for recycling by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and it earns money.

    "'That program, if you look at it as a whole, these kids learn a lot of skills,' Mikulin said. 'They take ownership in it every year. They don’t look at it as just a class, they look at it as a company. It is registered with the state of #Colorado, and it abides by all the state’s laws and rules for recycling.
    'They are practicing #sustainability, diverting materials from the #landfills. It’s been pretty cool all these years.'

    "He calls Tiger Recycling the 'showcase' of school recycling programs and credits program coordinator Ken Cline with bringing it from the brink of collapse into a self-sustaining business.

    "Cline has about 20 students per quarter spread over five class periods, and summer school classes. It’s tough to have more than five students at a time dismantling equipment, even though Tiger Recycling moved into its own warehouse space about five years ago, he said.

    "They also have three sheds where they can store items awaiting packaging or shipping.

    Shelves inside the classroom hold huge bins labeled for every conceivable component of computers and TVs, and a stack of desktop computers is piled against one wall, awaiting disassembly.

    "As students arrive on a recent Tuesday afternoon, Cline directs them to tasks and within seconds gloves are on and screwdrivers turning. One student asks for time to work on other classwork and Cline gives him a nod.

    "The class is part of the school’s Career Technical Education program, and participants earn general education credits.

    "He stays flexible with the students and tries to address their needs. Sometimes that means providing math tutoring; last year he had a class of four repeat students who wanted to delve deeper into electronics so Cline accommodated that.
    He also mentors students working on required capstone projects, including a couple who used recycled computer parts to build new computers.

    "The program brings in an average of $5,000 a year, Cline said. The money is handled by the high school, which then gives Tiger Recycling a budget for items such as tools, safety glasses, work gloves and field trips for students, said Cline, who noted that they’ve never spent more on those things than they’ve brought in."

    coloradosun.com/2024/02/14/ele

    #ReduceReuseRecycle #MoreRecycling #LessMining #RightToRepair #LithiumMining #CopperMining #Reuse #Recycle #SolarPunkSunday