Eco Stor says construction has begun on a 300 MW/714 MWh battery storage facility in Förderstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, now the largest such project under development in Germany. November 5, 2025 Sandra Enkhardt Image: Eco Stor From ESS News RWE briefly held the record for Germany’s largest battery storage facility under construction with its 400 MW / 700 MWh project. Following its groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, Eco Stor’s 300 MW / 714 MWh project in Förderstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, has n...

Chinese EV maker XPeng has unveiled its next-generation IRON humanoid robot at the 2025 XPeng Tech Day, calling it “the most human-like humanoid robot.” The IRON robot features a bionic “bone–muscle–skin” structure with a flexible spine, synthetic muscles, soft full-body skin, and 22 degrees of freedom in its dexterous hands. It runs on a physical-world foundation model powered by three Turing AI chips, combining advanced vision, language, and locomotion capabilities as part of a mul...

This story is a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Electricity prices have been rising across much of the country, and Illinois is among the states seeing the sharpest increases. Over the past five years, prices have shot up by about a third on average across the state, and some regions have seen increases of nearly 50 percent. According to the Illinois Commerce Commission, more than 170,000 disconnection notices were mailed ou...

By Rachel Irvine, CEO and Founder of Irvine Partners For decades, South Africa has been stuck in the same exhausting loop: dig something valuable out of the ground, ship it overseas, then buy back the finished product at a markup. We’ve done it with coal, platinum, and iron ore. We’ve watched the margins walk out the door while we’re left with the holes in the ground and not nearly enough jobs to show for it. But here’s what’s different about the energy transition: it might actually fo...

The premium headphone market overflows with active noise cancellation options from Sony, Apple, Sennheiser, and countless others, but Bose is still the brand that essentially invented consumer ANC and continues to push the technology forward. The QuietComfort Ultra is the top of the line from Bose and marries its most advanced noise cancellation with class-leading spatial audio capabilities that few competitors can match. Right now, Amazon has dropped the price from $429 down to $329, the all-ti...

How has Anker SOLIX specifically adapted its battery technology to handle Australia’s extreme environmental conditions, particularly the intense heat and coastal corrosion challenges that can impact energy storage systems? I think that’s one of the biggest challenges for the Australian market, especially because we have very long coastlines. All the major cities, including Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, and Brisbane, face the ocean along the eastern coastline, and even the west coast. In this sce...

Valve is bringing a helpful update to the Steam Deck, adding an option for downloading content while the screen is off. The company is calling it a display-off low-power mode. It will be enabled by default when the Steam Deck is plugged in. The handheld’s power settings can also allow it to be active while on battery power, although it will automatically revert to full sleep mode if the battery drops below 20 percent. If a user hits the power button while the Steam Deck is downloading cont...