Energy Digest Weekly
June 15 - June 21, 2026
Your weekly roundup of power & energy news
101
Total Articles
70
News & Industry
31
Research Papers
Executive Summary
This week's energy industry news highlighted significant advancements in battery storage and solar technologies, with major players like Wärtsilä and RCT Solutions partnering to integrate energy storage solutions into their respective businesses. The integration of renewable energy sources, such as solar-hydrogen-storage projects, continued to gain momentum, particularly in Asia. Additionally, the need for long-duration energy storage solutions became increasingly apparent, particularly in the context of data center operations in the APAC region. As policymakers and industry leaders grapple with grid instability issues, innovative solutions like agrivoltaics and compressed-air energy storage are being explored as potential panaceas.
Top Topics This Week
Battery Storage
25 (25%)
Solar
23 (23%)
Grid & Transmission
18 (18%)
Other
14 (14%)
Data Centers & AI
12 (12%)
Electric Vehicles
4 (4%)
Nuclear
3 (3%)
Renewable Integration
1 (1%)
Wind
1 (1%)
Battery Storage
25 articles- Wärtsilä wraps energy storage business into joint venture with solar manufacturer RCT Solutions Energy Storage News
- Airengy, Hagag Europe to build 5 GWh compressed-air energy storage plant in Romania PV Magazine
- VIDEO: Germany’s ramp constraints, grid limitations and their impact on the energy storage business case Energy Storage News
- World’s largest solar-hydrogen-storage project goes online in China PV Magazine
- APAC data centres risk a fossil fuel dependency long-duration energy storage can help end Energy Storage News
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Solar
23 articles- Cyprus curtails 65% of solar generation in January–May 2026 PV Magazine
- Floating Solar PV on Foam with Air Bubblers CleanTechnica
- Will New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sign a balcony solar bill? Canary Media
- Spain Could Have Nearly 7 Gigawatts of Offshore Solar Power CleanTechnica
- Home solar in rural America: a storm just took out your power, now what? Electrek
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Grid & Transmission
18 articles- Unifying awareness, control, and settlements to solve grid instability Renewable Energy World
- Is New England’s new hydropower transmission line paying off? Canary Media
- Can this grid monitoring tool reduce outage times by up to 80%? Renewable Energy World
- Geometry-Driven Islanding Detection and Fault Classification for Grid-Forming Inverters: A Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Manifold Framework with Physics-Derived Thresholds ArXiv
- Geospatial sensitivity of transmission-constrained ACOPF to generator retirement ArXiv
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Other
14 articles- The real cybersecurity debate around chinese inverters is only just beginning PV Magazine
- Western Power begins work on 18 new community batteries in Western Australia Energy Storage News
- Can Optimal Dispatch Models Recreate Reality? A Retrospective Analysis of Europe's 2022 Energy Crisis Using PyPSA-Eur ArXiv
- Ex-Tesla exec builds the home heat pump Tesla gave up for robots Electrek
- Stability Analysis in Large-scale Centralized Bidirectional Inverter-based Stations Connected to Bulk Power Systems through AC and DC Connections ArXiv
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Data Centers & AI
12 articles- Renewables shield Spain from energy crisis as gas sets electricity price in only 9% of hours PV Magazine
- Tesla Cybercab Specs Are Public — But Questions Remain CleanTechnica
- FERC Poised to Act on Data Center ANOPR at June Meeting RTO Insider
- China Resources New Energy launches Shenzhen IPO targeting record $3.4 billion raise PV Magazine
- A Stateful Stochastic Allocation Mechanism with Fairness Guarantees for Networked Electricity Systems ArXiv
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Electric Vehicles
4 articles- Exponential Weighting Model Predictive Control with Observer for Modular Multilevel Converters ArXiv
- Forecasting what Matters: Decision-Focused RL for Controlled EV Charging with Unknown Departure Times ArXiv
- GDGU: A Gradient Difference-based Graph Unlearning Method for Cyberattack Localization in Electric Vehicle Charging Networks ArXiv
- ev-flow: A Reproducible, NHTS-Grounded Generator of Synthetic Plug-in Electric Vehicle Charging Behavior for Eight U.S. Regions ArXiv
Nuclear
3 articlesRenewable Integration
1 articles- Clean energy wins | Factor This Brief Renewable Energy World
Wind
1 articlesKey Numbers
5 GW
The 5 GWh plant will store compressed air for later use as renewable energy source.
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65%
The 65% reduction in solar generation refers to a planned cutback from 2015 levels.
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9%
In approximately 9% of hours, natural gas is used to set electricity prices in Spain.
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650MW
Australias Energy Security Corporation invests in a 650 megawatt (MW) Ausgrid battery storage pla...
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80%
Reducing average power restoration time from 2 hours to 0.4 hours with its use.
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3.4 billion
China Resources New Energy aims to raise $3.4 billion through its Shenzhen initial public offerin...
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4.8GW
The 4.8GW solar project is expected to generate approximately 4.8GWh of electricity annually.
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640MW
The 640 MW of energy storage represents a significant contract for a large-scale battery project.
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15 GW
The planned output of 15 GW of small-scale solar power in Iran is ambitious renewable energy capa...
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110 MW
Mongolia is tendering for a 110 megawatt-scale solar power project to generate electricity.
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Sources
ArXiv
31
PV Magazine
14
CleanTechnica
14
Energy Storage News
10
Electrek
8
RTO Insider
6
Power Magazine
5
Renewable Energy World
4
Canary Media
3
Solar Power World
2