Viessmann Ukraine Rebuilds After July Strike, Scales Up Mobile Heat Capacity
A missile strike on 19 July destroyed the Ukrainian logistics hub of Viessmann Climate Solutions Ukraine, incinerating the facility along with equipment prepared for reconstruction projects. Within two months the company had a new warehouse of approximately 1,000 square metres ready for opening at an alternative location — concrete shelters are currently being installed on […]
Ukrainian Red Cross Transfers Nearly 1,000 Solar Panels to Bucha Community
The Ukrainian Red Cross has transferred close to a thousand solar panels, totalling nearly 600 kW of capacity, to the Bucha community in Kyiv Oblast. The equipment will serve modular settlements in Bucha and Vorzel that house internally displaced persons, according to the Kyiv Regional Military Administration and the Bucha City Council. The humanitarian shipment […]
Google Scales Demand-Response Ambition Tenfold to 1 GW Across the PJM Grid
Google has struck a deal with demand-response aggregator Voltus to manage up to 1 gigawatt of flexible electricity load across the PJM Interconnection grid — a tenfold jump from the 100-megawatt pilot the company announced in June, according to Canary Media. Under the arrangement, Google will compensate households and businesses that voluntarily cut their consumption […]
U.S. Grid Battery Incident Rate Has Fallen More Than 97% in a Decade, EPRI Finds
Large-scale battery storage in the United States has become far safer over the past ten years, with incident frequency dropping by more than 97% between 2016 and 2025 even as installed capacity grew 250-fold, according to an EPRI report reviewed by Canary Media. Three of those ten years recorded zero incidents at all. The improvement […]
sonnen’s German Arm Files for Insolvency Two Months After Shell’s Exit
The German operation of home battery company sonnen has filed for insolvency, just two months after oil major Shell sold the business to investment group TIVEN. Management at sonnen GmbH confirmed the filing and notified around 400 employees at the company’s facility in Wildpoldsried, Bavaria. The company says it intends to continue servicing more than […]
Britain’s Idle Coal Sites Offer Renewables Developers a Queue-Jumping Shortcut
Britain’s retired power stations are proving most valuable not for their land, but for the substations and high-voltage cables they left behind — infrastructure that lets renewable developers bypass a grid-connection queue that once stretched well beyond 700 GW. At West Burton, on the banks of the River Trent, the cooling towers have gone cold. […]
Japanese Perovskite Solar Glass Enters Commercial Market Ahead of Full Production
A Japanese corporation has begun shipping its first perovskite solar glass modules to customers from pilot facilities in Moriguchi, more than two years before planned mass production is set to begin at its Nagahama plant in April 2029. The early commercial launch, which started in September 2026, aims to accelerate market entry while serial manufacturing […]
