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Batteries

580 EV battery packs are deployed in B2U’s SEPV Cuyama energy storage project in Santa Barbara County, Calif. The system charges from on-site solar and from the grid. Credit: Courtesy of B2U Storage Solutions

Hundreds of Old EV Batteries Have New Jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the Grid

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Azure Sky Solar Project in Haskell, Texas, on August 12, 2024. Credit: Ramsay de Give/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Texas’ Risk of Summer Blackouts Reduced Thanks to Solar and Batteries

By Arcelia Martin

NineDot Energy’s battery storage and solar project in the Bronx, New York City. Credit: NineDot Energy

Figuring Out a Battery Storage System to Fit New York’s Wind and Solar Ambitions Has Not Been Easy

By Lauren Dalban

An aerial view of Constellation Energy’s nuclear power plant with a wind power turbine in the foreground near Marseilles, Ill. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Illinois Punts on Plans for Increasing Energy Storage, Renewables

By Leigh Giangreco

A bystander watches a fire burn at the Vistra Corp. battery storage plant on Jan. 17 in Moss Landing, Calif. Credit: Doug Duran/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

Researchers Wanted to Understand Concerns With Batteries in Moss Landing, California. Their Funding Just Got Yanked

By Dan Gearino

The construction site of BlueOval SK’s EV battery manufacturing facility in Stanton, Tenn. Credit: BlueOval SK

EV Battery Manufacturing Capacity Will Rise When 10 New Plants Come Online This Year. But Can They Thrive in Chaos?

By Dan Gearino

A view of Jupiter Power’s battery storage complex in Houston. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

More Solar and Battery Storage Were Added to Texas’ Grid Than Any Other Power Source Last Year

By Arcelia Martin

Flames and smoke rise from the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility after a fire erupted on Jan. 16 in Monterey Bay, Calif. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Moss Landing Battery Fire Leads to Health Fears, Evidence of Contamination and Concerns About Overreaction

By Dan Gearino, Kiley Price

A fire erupts at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility on Jan. 16 in Monterey County, Calif. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Making Sense of the Giant Fire that Could Set Back Energy Storage

By Dan Gearino

A visitor looks at sodium-ion battery products at the smart vehicle section of the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Dec. 1, 2023. Credit: Li He/Xinhua via Getty Images

This Low-Cost EV Battery (Kind of) Runs on Salt, and It’s Having a Moment

By Dan Gearino

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19. He spoke about Lordstown, Ohio, where an auto assembly plant closed during the Trump administration and a battery manufacturing plant opened during the Biden administration. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

As the UAW Moves Into Battery Plants, New Research Shows the Shift to EVs Doesn’t Lead to Job Losses

By Dan Gearino

QuantumScape of San Jose, Calif., is developing a solid-state battery. Credit: QuantumScape

Want an EV With 600 Miles of Range? It’s Coming

By Dan Gearino

Muhammud Abu-Kass demonstrates how to work the training equipment at Guilford Tech Community College. The equipment trains him to be ready to work at Toyota’s first and only battery manufacturing plant in the U.S. Credit: Nicole Norman/Medill News Service

Toyota Opens a ‘Megasite’ for EV Batteries in a Struggling N.C. Community, Fueled by Biden’s IRA

By Nicole Norman

The shuttered power plant in Morro Bay, Calif., where Vistra Corp. has proposed a 600-megawatt battery storage project on a portion of the site. Credit: Vistra Corp.

On California’s Central Coast, Battery Storage Is on the Ballot

By Erin Rode

Joey Kabel (left) and Dan Stack, co-founders of Electrified Thermal Solutions in Medford, Mass., stand next to the company’s elevator-sized pilot system which contains electrically charged bricks that generate and store heat. Credit: Barry Chin/The Boston Globe

The Race to Decarbonize Heavy Industry Heats Up

By Phil McKenna

Trucks pump and haul spilled water away from a test mining drill site on March 8 in Green River, Utah. Residents are worried over how the Direct Lithium Extraction mine—and any spills caused by it—could impact local water supplies. Credit: Kelly Dunham

Mining Companies Say They Have a Better Way to Get Underground Lithium, but Skepticism Remains

By Wyatt Myskow

The second generation of Volkswagen's ID.3 electric car on a production line on May 24, 2023 in Zwickau, Germany. Credit: Jens Schlueter/Getty Images

Battery Prices Are Falling Again, and That’s a Good Thing

By Dan Gearino

Mike Ferry, with the University of California San Diego Center for Energy Research, shows a bank of Lithium Ion batteries at UCSD

U.S. Battery Storage Had a Record Quarter. Here’s Why It Could Have—and Should Have—Been Much Better

By Dan Gearino

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