Thursday, 15 October 2026

India plans to widen the use of artificial intelligence across its power sector, aiming for a grid that is more reliable, resilient and secure, Union Minister of State for Power and New and Renewable Energy Shripad Yesso Naik said on Wednesday.

Naik put total installed generation capacity at 558 GW, of which non-fossil fuel sources supply 308 GW, or around 55%.

In Eleuthera, Works and Family Island Affairs Minister Clay Sweeting said he would keep pushing for steadier electricity supply in his constituency after residents reported repeated outages over the holiday weekend that hit homes and businesses.

Sweeting said the EA Energy project would deliver cleaner, more reliable power and cut reliance on ageing diesel generators.

Amwins Global Risks expanded its specialist commercial and industrial insurance facility to cover battery energy storage systems and electric vehicle infrastructure, the firm said on Tuesday.

The facility offers limits of up to USD 10 million per project, according to Business Insurance. It allows portfolios of smaller distributed energy assets across different locations to be insured under a single program.

The expanded facility lets developers, owners and investors insure multiple distributed energy assets across different locations under one insurance program, according to Reinsurance News.

Coverage spans construction and operational risks, including delay in start-up and business interruption, as well as construction of EV charging stations in the United States, according to Business Insurance.

Changan and CATL plan to expand battery capacity at their joint venture to 75 GWh, according to electrive. The venture's production capacity had previously been planned at 50 GWh.

In a separate development reported by electrive, Gelion signed an agreement with an unnamed major automaker to test its sulphur-based Nano Encapsulated Sulfur cathode technology.

Base Power will deploy about 100 MWh of residential energy storage for Central Georgia EMC using 2,500 Base Core batteries, according to ESS News.

The batteries will give the co-op 50 MW of dispatchable capacity sited at customer homes across its territory, ESS News reported.

First installations are scheduled for 2027.

The agreement marks Base Power's first utility partnership outside Texas, where the company has signed several such deals, per ESS News.

China Huadian has completed the first grid connection of a 100 MW/1,000 MWh compressed carbon dioxide (CO2) energy storage plant in Mulei County, Xinjiang, according to ESS News. ESS News described it as China's first 100 MW compressed CO2 storage plant to connect to the grid.

The facility achieved its initial grid connection on Sept. 30, according to China Huadian. ESS News reported the plant has a nominal discharge duration of 10 hours.

Nightpeak Energy brought its 150 MW / 300 MWh Bocanova 2 project in Brazoria County, Texas, into commercial operation on September 17, following financial close.

The second phase doubled the capacity of the battery storage project, which operates within ERCOT, according to ESS News.

The combined Bocanova site now holds 300 MW of capacity and sits in Brazoria County near the Houston metropolitan area, according to Solar Builder.

Fluence won a contract from Vattenfall to build a battery storage system rated at 254 MW and 1,016 MWh on the grounds of a decommissioned nuclear plant in Germany, ESS News reported.

Groundbreaking is set for 2027, and Vattenfall expects the plant running by the close of 2028, according to ESS News. The project is to link to the grid in late 2028.

The Brunsbüttel installation runs on a turnkey contract, handing Fluence responsibility from engineering and build through commissioning and extended servicing, ESS News reported.

Econergy has connected its 40 MW/120 MWh Dalmarnock battery energy storage system in Glasgow, Scotland, to the UK grid, according to ESS News.

The company expects the Dalmarnock battery to reach full commercial operation by December, ESS News reported.

The project is financed with approximately GBP 21 million of project debt from Santander UK, according to ESS News.

Econergy has also signed a 10-year agreement with EDF that guarantees a minimum annual revenue and provides a revenue-sharing mechanism above the floor, ESS News reported.

Central Maine Power, the state's largest electric utility, has filed suit in federal court to block a Maine law requiring participation in the regional electric grid, according to Maine Public. The law also removes a longstanding financial bonus for joining ISO-New England.

Maine's Office of Public Advocate said eliminating that incentive, known as an "adder," would save electricity customers USD 2 million a year.

Separately, state and county lawmakers raised financial and environmental concerns about the proposed County Line wind farm in talks with Haynesville, Maine, residents, according to the Bangor Daily News.

Eko Power Limited says it holds a distribution license issued directly by the Lagos State Electricity Regulatory Commission (LASERC) to distribute electricity in the southern parts of Lagos State, according to Nairametrics.

The company describes itself as the successor distribution company recognized under the Lagos framework, operating under the LASERC license and bound by the regulator's tariff methodology and service-level standards for Lagos customers, according to Nairametrics.

Eko Power Limited said its distribution, tariff and customer-service commitments are governed under Lagos State law, according to Nairametrics and Daily Post. The company said it is licensed by LASERC for distribution and tariffs, and that its service commitments to customers are set independently under Lagos State law.