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BYD’s plan to install a solid-state battery in a test vehicle next year lands it on the same 2027 pilot-production timeline that CATL, Geely, SAIC-Qingtao and Samsung SDI have each separately confirmed over the past two months. Rather than a leadership claim, Stella Li’s Valencia announcement is confirmation that essentially the entire top tier of [...]

Globally, natural hydrogen exploration has produced exactly one commercially operating well, a small site at Bourakébougou in Mali that generates electricity for a single village. That is the entire proven commercial track record behind a category more than 100 companies now describe themselves as pursuing, and it is the backdrop against which Element One Hydrogen [...]

Heron Power’s newest funding announcement cites more than 40 gigawatts of customer interest in its Heron Link power conversion system. The company’s own materials from earlier this year put that figure higher, at a backlog exceeding 50 gigawatts, and founder Drew Baglino told Latitude Media in August that demand was running well north of the [...]

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market’s Core Carbon Principles label, the leading quality benchmark in voluntary carbon markets, already excludes large-scale landfill gas projects that combine flaring with electricity generation, the exact category Era4’s UK data center plan depends on. That exclusion predates and exists independently of Era4’s specific project, ...

The Partnerships to Accelerate Training and Hiring for Geothermal Heat Pumps prize awarding 1.2 million dollars to eight teams this month was launched in December 2024 under the prior administration’s Geothermal Technologies Office, with a total program budget of 3 million dollars that has not changed since. The September 2026 announcement of this month’s winners [...]