Energy Digest Weekly
March 23 - March 29, 2026
Your weekly roundup of power & energy news
88
Total Articles
70
News & Industry
18
Research Papers
Executive Summary
This week's energy industry news highlighted significant advancements in renewable energy technologies, particularly battery storage and solar power. Notably, India has made substantial investments in behind-the-meter energy storage systems, with ACME Solar commissioning a 480MWh battery storage facility. Additionally, the US has seen a surge in domestic manufacturing of grid batteries, which could have a profound impact on the country's energy infrastructure. These developments underscore the growing importance of clean energy technologies and their role in shaping the future of the global energy landscape.
Top Topics This Week
Battery Storage
20 (23%)
Solar
18 (20%)
Data Centers & AI
15 (17%)
Grid & Transmission
15 (17%)
Other
10 (11%)
Wind
4 (5%)
Hydrogen
2 (2%)
Electric Vehicles
1 (1%)
Markets & ISO
1 (1%)
Policy & Regulation
1 (1%)
Nuclear
1 (1%)
Battery Storage
20 articles- India: ACME Solar commissions 480MWh of BESS, readies for FDRE and peak supply deals Energy Storage News
- AGL commissioning ‘ambitious’ 1,000MWh Liddell grid-forming BESS in Australia Energy Storage News
- Hydrogen Storage Investments Stalled at Port of Rotterdam Amid High Costs and Demand Uncertainty Hydrogen Fuel News
- Indian industry body projects 346 GWh of BESS capacity by 2033 PV Magazine
- Nebraska advances energy storage and data centre-focused bill Energy Storage News
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Solar
18 articles- New Orleans day shelter to benefit from 44-kW solar array Solar Power World
- German startup offers team of 22 specialized AI workers for PV plant O&M operations PV Magazine
- VIDEO: Grid-forming, LDES and solar hybrids in Europe, with Envision Energy’s Michael Koller Energy Storage News
- Solar cyber threats expand, but inverters still stay in the crosshairs PV Magazine
- Solar and wind reach record 17% of US power generation PV Magazine
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Data Centers & AI
15 articles- Entso-E report finds systemic failures behind 2025 Iberian blackout PV Magazine
- FERC Denies Generation Developer Complaint Against PJM Network Upgrade Costs RTO Insider
- End-to-End Differentiable Predictive Control with Guaranteed Constraint Satisfaction and feasibility for Building Demand Response ArXiv
- EPRI launches new large load framework to reduce time to power for data centers Renewable Energy World
- Maine tries again to unlock wind energy — but this time it has help Canary Media
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Grid & Transmission
15 articles- Suddenly, the US manufactures a ton of grid batteries Canary Media
- PJM’s Capacity Market Was Meant to be a Safety Net; It Has Become the Entire Grid RTO Insider
- Anatomy of a Blackout: Findings from the Spain-Portugal Grid Collapse Final Report Power Magazine
- Input Convex Encoder-Only Transformer for Fast and Gradient-Stable MPC in Building Demand Response ArXiv
- Unified Sensitivity-Based Heuristic for Optimal Line Switching and Substation Reconfiguration ArXiv
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Other
10 articles- Virtual power plant demonstration sets up in Washington, D.C. Solar Power World
- BOOST-RPF: Boosted Sequential Trees for Radial Power Flow ArXiv
- IF-CPS: Influence Functions for Cyber-Physical Systems -- A Unified Framework for Diagnosis, Curation, and Safety Attribution ArXiv
- Physics-Infused Neural MPC of a DC-DC Boost Converter with Adaptive Transient Recovery and Enhanced Dynamic Stability ArXiv
- An Electricity Market That’s Bigger Than the Weather RTO Insider
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Wind
4 articles- Sierra Club Celebrates as the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project Powers On CleanTechnica
- The US’s largest offshore wind farm just produced its first power Electrek
- WAKE-NET: 3D-Wake-Aware Turbine Layout and Cabling Optimization Framework of Multi-Hub-Height Wind Farms for Grid-Scale and Industrial Power Systems ArXiv
- Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind begins delivering power Utility Dive
Hydrogen
2 articlesElectric Vehicles
1 articlesMarkets & ISO
1 articlesPolicy & Regulation
1 articlesNuclear
1 articles- Study outlines Finnish options for new nuclear capacity World Nuclear News
Key Numbers
480MW
The 480MWh battery energy storage system enables efficient power supply during peak hours.
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1,000MW
One thousand megawatt-hours (MWh) is a significant energy storage capacity for a power station.
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346 GW
The proposed energy storage system has a planned capacity of 346 gigawatt-hours by 2033.
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11%
The 11% threshold refers to a point at which a batterys capacity is fully depleted.
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17%
Seventeen percent represents a new high for solar and wind power contributing to US electricity g...
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5.5GW
The 5.5 GW of battery storage represents a significant increase in renewable energy capacity.
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100%
In electrical engineering, 100% represents a systems maximum capacity to produce active power.
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1.2GW
The planned 1.2GW is a large-scale power generation capacity for battery storage projects.
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2GW
The 2GW of grid battery storage is intended to replace a significant portion of NSWs coal-fired p...
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300MW
The 300MWh (megawatt-hours) Texas battery storage project represents approximately 6 months of el...
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Sources
ArXiv
18
PV Magazine
15
Energy Storage News
12
Solar Power World
6
Transmission & Distribution World
6
Power Magazine
5
RTO Insider
4
CleanTechnica
4
Electrek
4
Canary Media
3