Today’s paper

Canada · 2 Nov 2026

A Bowmanville cement plant is taking a 50 MWh battery with nothing due up front - the megawatts are blank, one trade page hopes for May 2028, and the box charges from the grid

On 27 October 2026 Rodan Energy and St. Marys Cement said Rodan will develop, own and operate a 50 MWh battery behind the meter at the Bowmanville, Ontario plant. St. Marys pays nothing up front. The release does not print megawatts, a dollar figure, a savings split or a switch-on date. CemNet, on 29 October, says those four lines were not disclosed. Energy Tech, on 28 October, writes that Rodan hopes to switch on by May 2028. No solar is named. The battery charges from the grid.

1. Malaysia · 2 Nov 2026

   Malaysia puts a 30% renewable line on data centres - August use was 1,374 MW against 2,346 MW booked, the test is not one sentence, and the speech names generators where a battery would sit

   On 27 October 2026 Deputy Prime Minister Fadillah Yusof told the Dewan Rakyat that data centres are required to use at least 30% renewable energy. The Edge prints the test as total capacity or energy consumption. RTM prints it as each operator's total energy use. On 28 October Bernama, via Malay Mail, printed August 2026 figures of 2,346 MW contracted and 1,374 MW used, called 58.5%. The same remarks name solar for the building's own use, CRESS, and backup generators. They do not name a battery. The Energy Commission is still writing the guidelines. No start date is printed.

2. Storage · 2 Nov 2026

   A Steinach timber plant is adding two 197 kWh batteries beside 520.76 kWp of roof solar - the CHF 35,000 is the panels, the 72% is an expectation, and the box only holds leftover noon

   On 29 October 2026 SolarEdge said Leimholz Haag in Steinach is adding two commercial batteries to a rooftop system commissioned in June 2025. The roof is 520.76 kWp, about 54% of the plant's electricity, about CHF 35,000 a year and about 235,000 kg of CO2. The batteries are rated 197 kWh each, up to 394 kWh of surplus solar, with self-consumption expected to rise to 72%. Best Magazine reported the same figures on 30 October. No franc price for the batteries is printed. No inverter kilowatts for this site are printed. The batteries store surplus solar. They do not make power.

3. Australia · 1 Nov 2026

   A roof under 100 kW can fall under the mid-scale certificate rules if a related system pushes the total over - ten shops on one street meter can stay separate, and a 10 MW job cannot claim the first megawatt in stages

   The Clean Energy Regulator updated its small, mid and large solar page on 30 October 2026. Total capacity includes related solar on the same site or an adjoining site. Related turns on location, ownership, the wiring, the meters and the network connection. One street meter does not decide it. Certificates on an expansion cover only the capacity added on or after 1 October 2026. A related total over 1 MW is off the small-scale scheme. Applications are still marked for mid to late November.

Also filed

1. A Pilbara lithium mine takes at least 325 GWh a year for 20 years from Fortescue's solar and battery grid - the cents are blank, the supply is not firm, and the on-site battery stays

   Australia · 1 Nov 2026

2. Western Australia opens 3% loans of $300,000 to $15 million for factory solar and batteries - the worksite puts in 20% cash, and spend before the deed is out

   Australia · 1 Nov 2026

3. A logistics yard in Aichi has taken delivery of a 2,742 kWh battery beside 858 kW of roof solar - operations are scheduled for February 2027, and the yen are blank

   Storage · 31 Oct 2026

4. Maryland opens a closed auction for grid batteries of at least 20 MWh and four hours - this round is up to $100 million, the bid cap is hidden, and a net-metered roof is off the generation line

   Markets · 31 Oct 2026

5. Three Ha Tinh factories are taking power from up to 22 MWp of roof solar and a 45 MWh battery - the cost line is nearly 3.5 billion dong a year, and the tariff is blank

   Storage · 31 Oct 2026

6. Egypt Aluminium takes a 25-year contract for power from 569 MW of solar and a 100 MWh battery - the price is blank, and the smelter does not own the plant

   Storage · 30 Oct 2026

7. Powertown will fund 125 kW or 250 kW batteries at Brockton workplaces with nothing due up front - a laundry puts the cut at about $30,000 a year, and the savings split is blank

   United States · 30 Oct 2026

8. Cemex tells a Zagreb fair it uses 145 GWh a year and that 6.4 MW of solar covers 6% - the 18 MW finish was spoken at the fair, and the company page prints a different next step

   Croatia · 29 Oct 2026

9. CIMB pairs a battery with 20.2 GW of the 24.3 GW of new Peninsular solar on its 2026-2035 sheet - about RM1 million a megawatt for the battery and RM3 million for the panels

   Malaysia · 29 Oct 2026

10. Ontario caps an inverter plant at 75 MW on a 115 kV line in its next contract round - Belleville's list is 10 MW of solar and a 60 MW battery, and a local factory feeder is off the map

    Canada · 29 Oct 2026

11. A citrus farm with 22 power accounts is lining up 3 MWp of solar and a 6.6 MWh battery on one private line - the tariff is blank

    Storage · 28 Oct 2026

12. A Minas Gerais poultry farm is running 378 kWp of solar and a 1.29 MWh battery - the 50% bill cut is an estimate, and the diesel generator stays

    Storage · 28 Oct 2026

13. LevelTen puts the 25th percentile of German solar-plus-battery offers at €65.50 a megawatt-hour, down 12.7% - Spain's solar-only cut is €30.93, and a posted offer is not a signed contract

    Markets · 28 Oct 2026

14. Google and Voltus added 1,070 MW of flexible PJM capacity - a workplace battery can join the pool, and the contract prints no payment rate

    United States · 26 Oct 2026

15. Grid batteries set the NEM spot price in 48% of September-quarter intervals, wholesale power averaged $63, and they beat gas in the evening peak

    Australia · 26 Oct 2026

16. Irish business power averaged 24.1 euro cents a kilowatt-hour in the first half of 2026, the highest EU average in SEAI's table, and the battery count leaves out the box on site

    Ireland · 26 Oct 2026

17. A Czech industrial group signed a 20-year contract for power from 27 MW of solar and a 10 MW battery - the developer owns the plant, and the price is blank

    Storage · 21 Oct 2026

18. Dominion sketches 3.5 GW of grid batteries over 20 years - the April law tells that utility to seek 16,000 MW of shorter batteries and 4,000 MW of longer ones

    United States · 21 Oct 2026

19. A Malaysian company buying green power across the grid pays 4 sen per kWh - the developer's 14 sen fee is a different line, fixed for 10 years

    Malaysia · 20 Oct 2026

20. Ontario's draft lets a transmission battery sell energy, reserve and frequency control in the same hour - the pay formula is blank, and a factory feeder is out

    Canada · 20 Oct 2026

21. A Geelong campus is running a 100 kWh lead-acid battery - the Sydney factory copy is still a plan, 600 mm from the wall

    Australia · 19 Oct 2026

22. Ireland doubled a workplace loan pot to €1 billion - renewable energy is named, and the extra green discount is 0.25%

    Ireland · 19 Oct 2026

23. A La Fox factory plans a 5 MWh battery on site - ComEd's storage rebate is $300 or $250 a kilowatt-hour, and this project has not been paid it

    United States · 18 Oct 2026

24. Grid batteries set the NEM spot price in 36% of intervals in the June quarter, up from 17%, and the discharge price fell to $107

    Markets · 18 Oct 2026

25. Croatia puts €30 million on the table for farm and food-plant solar and batteries - first in, first paid, from 9 November

    Croatia · 17 Oct 2026

26. The grid couldn't give a Barcelona factory more power, so it bought a 3.87 MWh battery instead of waiting

    Storage · 17 Oct 2026

27. A Galway medical-device plant built a 6 MWh battery and 4 MW of generators around its solar - and the installer behind it now sells through Energia

    Ireland · 16 Oct 2026

28. Honda Malaysia put 5.6 MWp of solar and a 5.8 MWh battery on its factory - and it still covers only about a tenth of the power bill

    Malaysia · 16 Oct 2026

29. A Woodstock car-parts factory put in a 3.6 MW battery for two hours of peak cut - financed by someone else

    Canada · 15 Oct 2026

30. US buyers now pay about 20% more for Chinese storage cells before tariffs - freight flipped the map

    Markets · 15 Oct 2026

31. A Riverwood factory warehouse put in a 200 kWh battery on a 50 kW inverter - four hours of push, and a A$15,000-a-year estimate

    Australia · 14 Oct 2026

32. A Vermont chip factory added about 6 MW of solar and a 16 MW battery - and the battery is the part that pays

    United States · 14 Oct 2026

33. Varaždin's technology park put 60 kW of solar on its roof so it would not lift tenants' rent

    Croatia · 14 Oct 2026

34. A Johor precast concrete factory put 573 kW of solar and a 522 kWh battery on site - about two hours of battery at full push, built in roughly three months

    Malaysia · 13 Oct 2026

35. France's biggest battery published its first report card - 145 full cycles in 125 days and 70.5 GWh fed back from a 240 MW / 480 MWh site

    Storage · 13 Oct 2026

36. Alberta's biggest battery is online - Northland's Jurassic box is 80 MW / 160 MWh, two hours at full power, with a 15-year offtake covering all of it

    Canada · 12 Oct 2026

37. European C&I battery shelves may get crowded into early 2027 - utility-scale prices look steadier

    Markets · 12 Oct 2026

38. DENSO put 5.25 MWac of solar beside its Athens Tennessee plant - more than 10,000 modules, about 14% of the plant's yearly power, no battery named

    United States · 11 Oct 2026

39. NSW cleared a 125 MW / 1,000 MWh eight-hour battery near Narrabri - Energy Vault owns it, Enervest delivers, LTESA runs 14 years

    Australia · 11 Oct 2026

40. Batteries now beat gas peakers on cost in 43 markets. A battery still runs out after four hours.

    Markets · 10 Oct 2026

41. Germany's latest innovation auction went entirely to solar-plus-storage - 480 MW at an average €0.0514 per kWh

    Markets · 10 Oct 2026

42. JA put a 125 kW / 261 kWh solar-plus-battery cabinet on European pre-order - one box for panels, storage and 10 ms backup

    Storage · 10 Oct 2026

43. Buying green power through CRESS just got a cheaper grid fee: 14 sen per kWh, down from 20 - and a RM34m solar build lands 19 days later

    Malaysia · 8 Oct 2026

44. Four First Nations want to power an Ontario gold mine with an 8.5 MW solar farm - the permit takes longer than the build

    Canada · 8 Oct 2026

45. Two Long Island batteries are switched off over a 2023 fire - New York regulators point at the fire suppressant, not the batteries

    United States · 8 Oct 2026

46. Ausgrid will buy the solar a warehouse roof can't use - 16-year contracts, about 8c a kilowatt-hour expected, in two trial areas

    Australia · 7 Oct 2026

47. Three Spanish factories now run 62.5 MWh of batteries beside 34 MWp of solar - the first three of ten in a 366 MWh job

    Storage · 7 Oct 2026

48. A landlord with up to 240 offices, warehouses and clinics handed its roofs to an energy company - about 70 MW of solar and 300 MWh of batteries, with no capex for tenants

    Australia · 6 Oct 2026

49. Ireland's business solar grant nearly doubles from today - 45% of eligible costs for nine months, up from about 23%

    Ireland · 6 Oct 2026

50. Ireland puts money behind home batteries again from 6 October - and says businesses using the solar support can cut energy costs by up to €300,000 a year

    Ireland · 5 Oct 2026

51. NSW's Waratah Super Battery hit final commercial ops - 850 MW on an old coal site, built to catch grid shocks in milliseconds

    Australia · 5 Oct 2026

52. A US tech company booked Malaysian firm solar for its data centres - 680 MW of panels and a four-hour battery, on a twenty-one year term sheet

    Malaysia · 2 Oct 2026

53. Queensland's wholesale power price fell 40% in a year - the state generator credits the battery build-out

    Australia · 2 Oct 2026

54. FRV just switched on a 100 MW two-hour battery in southwest Victoria - its first big standalone box in Australia

    Australia · 1 Oct 2026

55. A Victorian hybrid solar-plus-battery hub just hired its Stage 1 builder - Gamuda takes the Mortlake EPC

    Australia · 30 Sep 2026

56. Mayo just cleared a revised plan for an 80 MW four-hour battery next to an SSE gas station - FID is still SSE's call

    Ireland · 30 Sep 2026

57. A Moroccan phosphate mine switched on a five-hour battery next to its solar - lunchtime sun for the night shift on the plant

    Storage · 29 Sep 2026

58. Spain will put a new capacity charge on power bills - and pay factories that can cut load when the grid is stressed

    Markets · 29 Sep 2026

59. From Wednesday, a factory roof between 100 kW and 1 MW can use the same small-scale certificate paper as a house

    Australia · 28 Sep 2026

60. Ireland will stop charging grid batteries like a factory when they fill up - from 1 October they pay the generator fee instead

    Ireland · 28 Sep 2026

61. Amazon booked a four-hour Victorian battery without building it - Australia's first corporate storage toll outside the energy industry

    Australia · 25 Sep 2026

62. Croatia's parliament passed power market changes that push business PPAs and strengthen self-producers

    Croatia · 25 Sep 2026

63. Greece put €8.15 million toward workplace batteries next to solar. Most of the programme budget is still sitting unused.

    Storage · 24 Sep 2026

64. US commercial solar got 5.6% dearer in a year, to $1.77 a watt, even as module prices fell

    United States · 24 Sep 2026

65. Victoria's state utility bought into a long battery - and booked half its power for fifteen years for business customers

    Australia · 24 Sep 2026

66. Arizona's big utility booked a four-hour battery for twenty years - and the banks closed $220 million behind it

    United States · 23 Sep 2026

67. Croatia signed 47 business battery grants worth EUR 16.3 million, using only about 30% of the money on offer

    Croatia · 23 Sep 2026

68. Malaysia publishes a fixed grid fee for corporate solar that can deliver for four hours

    Malaysia · 23 Sep 2026

69. A German steel mill bought solar - and the right to run the batteries when the plant needs power

    Markets · 22 Sep 2026

70. Google banked leftover solar in batteries so clean power showed up in the hours it actually used

    United States · 22 Sep 2026

71. Australia switched on its first eight-hour grid battery. It fills up at noon and runs into the night.

    Australia · 21 Sep 2026

72. Istria switched on its first public-building solar roof, 100 kW on Umag's health centre, with three more on the way

    Croatia · 21 Sep 2026

73. US workplaces bought batteries in bulk last quarter. The install record was not only utilities.

    United States · 21 Sep 2026

74. Canberra’s small-scale battery discount stops at 100 kWh. NSW’s workplace voucher goes to 30 MWh.

    Australia · 19 Sep 2026

75. Ireland’s panel grant is not the payment for leftover noon.

    Ireland · 19 Sep 2026

76. Malaysia closed new applications on the old one-for-one meter. The 2026 workplace path is ATAP.

    Malaysia · 19 Sep 2026

77. The Australian battery discount is paid in traded paper. Tuesday’s price is not your contract.

    Markets · 19 Sep 2026

78. Ireland will help pay for workplace solar panels. The battery is a separate bill.

    Ireland · 18 Sep 2026

79. NSW will knock money off a workplace battery. The published cut is a range. Your quote is a different number.

    Australia · 18 Sep 2026

80. Meta added a 144 MW Texas solar farm to its Apex deals, taking the green certificates while the grid gets the power

    United States · 17 Sep 2026

81. A Croatian oil factory switched on 3.5 MW of solar and a 4.5 MW / 9 MWh battery - self-use first, surplus into the box

    Croatia · 16 Sep 2026

82. If the lights are still on after sunset, a battery is how lunchtime sun works the night shift.

    Storage · 15 Sep 2026

83. Malaysia pays a business a bulk rate for leftover lunchtime sun. That is not the rate on your bill.

    Malaysia · 15 Sep 2026

84. The Malaysian home rebate tops out at RM3,000. It does not pay for a factory roof.

    Malaysia · 15 Sep 2026

85. The US set final duties on solar cells from India, Indonesia and Laos, up to 249% combined for India

    United States · 14 Sep 2026

86. US commercial solar installs rose 11% in the second quarter while home solar hit a five-year low

    United States · 10 Sep 2026

87. Croatian power traded below zero at Sunday lunchtime, while neighbours' evening prices passed EUR 225

    Croatia · 6 Sep 2026

88. Croatia's first home battery grant filled in about a day: 9,320 applications, 1,460 for batteries

    Croatia · 4 Sep 2026

89. Illinois approved 600 MW of new four-hour batteries, but the PJM zone got only 80 MW of its 588 MW target

    United States · 3 Sep 2026

90. A new US order on foreign grid equipment puts battery projects first in line for delays, BloombergNEF says

    United States · 1 Sep 2026

91. Croatia lets standalone batteries get permits in industrial zones before local plans catch up

    Croatia · 28 Aug 2026

92. The US widened its block on new foreign-made grid inverters to cover wired connections, with a carve-out for 45X makers

    United States · 24 Aug 2026

93. New Jersey proposed paying home batteries for grid duty, and says business batteries at critical sites come next

    United States · 19 Aug 2026

94. Nevada's main utility signed for 25 years of solar with a four-hour battery: 400 MW of panels, 1,600 MWh of storage

    United States · 18 Aug 2026

95. Tesla filed plans for a $10.1 billion solar factory campus in Texas, with production from 2029

    United States · 12 Aug 2026

96. Dubrovnik airport plans solar roofs over its car parks and a 3.3 MWh battery, with no power sold to the grid

    Croatia · 11 Aug 2026

97. Vukovar's water company is building solar with a battery at its wastewater plant and expects over EUR 300,000 a year off power costs

    Croatia · 11 Aug 2026

98. A 5.3-hour battery is going up next to Ohio's data centre cluster: 200 MW / 1.06 GWh, the biggest on the PJM grid

    United States · 7 Aug 2026

99. From 4 December, imported solar modules in the US carry a $0.38 per watt price floor plus a 15% tariff

    United States · 7 Aug 2026

100. Orsted switched on a 250 MW / 500 MWh battery beside a Texas solar farm, and runs it separately from the panels

     United States · 6 Aug 2026

101. HEP confirmed its Sukosan solar plant comes with a battery of up to 200 MWh, and the estimate rose to EUR 65 million

     Croatia · 5 Aug 2026

102. Texas paused its data centre hook-up queue: 474 GW of requests, about 90% of them data centres

     United States · 5 Aug 2026

103. Costco took a Florida distribution centre off the grid with solar and batteries, and nobody said how big the system is

     United States · 28 Jul 2026

104. Croatia sold 312,171 green power certificates in one day, at about EUR 1.12 to 1.46 each

     Croatia · 28 Jul 2026

105. PJM wants new data centres that bring no power of their own to cut back first near a grid emergency

     United States · 28 Jul 2026

106. Tesla signed to buy about 1 TWh a year from an Arizona solar farm with a four-hour battery

     United States · 28 Jul 2026

107. Croatia's first energy community is live: 17 members share one fire station roof, no battery

     Croatia · 27 Jul 2026

108. Croatian power traded below zero for 257 hours last year, and the regulator reads it as a case for batteries

     Croatia · 23 Jul 2026

109. Solar and batteries were 91% of new US power capacity in the first quarter, and California's batteries met 36% of demand at one point in July

     United States · 23 Jul 2026

110. A Karlovac pasta maker paired a new line with 160 kW of solar and reports over 15% off its power use in the trial

     Croatia · 22 Jul 2026

111. Croatia's regulator adopted a written list of what blocks companies from using their own solar power

     Croatia · 21 Jul 2026

112. Croatia's passenger railway will charge battery trains at a station with its own solar and storage

     Croatia · 16 Jul 2026

113. Google booked the first two phases of America's largest solar-plus-storage build - and the box is part of the deal

     United States · 15 Jul 2026

114. An Istrian label printer put solar on its roof: 60 MWh in the first three months, EU-backed, no battery

     Croatia · 10 Jul 2026

115. Croatia connected 218 MW of new solar in six months and still imported a third of its June power

     Croatia · 10 Jul 2026

116. Croatia's regulator says the battery rulebook follows a new power law this autumn, with better terms from early 2027

     Croatia · 8 Jul 2026

117. The US solar tax credit's start-building deadline has passed, and late projects now race a December 2027 finish line

     United States · 8 Jul 2026

118. INA finished 11 MW of solar inside its Rijeka refinery, and the power is for a hydrogen machine

     Croatia · 2 Jul 2026

119. Croatia opened its first household battery grant. The workplace lesson sits next door in the business call.

     Croatia · 30 Jun 2026

120. Croatia finally priced the grid hook-up. Hybrid solar-plus-battery sites now pay on the higher of import or export.

     Croatia · 25 Jun 2026

121. A Medulin tourism site is building 5 MWp of solar and a 5 MW / 10 MWh battery on an old clay pit

     Croatia · 29 May 2026

122. Croatia's distributor named three ways to connect a battery. Co-located storage still may not charge from the grid.

     Croatia · 22 Jan 2026