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US-based BESS companies Peak Energy, ESS Inc and Unigrid aim to commercialise sodium-ion in US, Europe
Peak Energy, ESS Tech Inc, and Unigrid have announced new sodium-ion energy storage manufacturing, product launches, and deployment milestones in the US and Europe.
- Peak Energy selected Sacramento, California for a new Na-ion BESS manufacturing facility announced 8 July, targeting up to 4GWh annually and US$71 million in capital investment.
- The project is expected to create 239 local jobs over 18 months; Peak also cited a US$10.5 million CalCompetes tax credit awarded in May 2026 and earlier phased deals including up to 4.75GWh with Jupiter Power.
- ESS Tech Inc launched the ESS Bridge, a 1.2MWh modular Na-ion BESS for utilities, AI-driven data centres, critical infrastructure operators, and C&I customers; it can scale to 4.8MWh in the same footprint as a traditional 20-foot container.
- Unigrid announced first deliveries of its Na+Casa residential BESS, rated at 9.25kWh, with installations in Europe and US availability expected by end of 2026 pending compliance requirements.
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Leadership Updates: Key Data Center & Cloud Appointments (Q3 2026)
The article summarizes a wave of leadership appointments across data center operators, infrastructure vendors, and related service firms; it is a roundup rather than a single first-time project announcement.
- Multiple firms, including NTT Data Group, Stream Data Centers, Colt Data Centre Services, and Vantage Data Centers, announced new executive appointments to support expansion, operations, finance, technology, and regional growth.
- The roundup also covers leadership moves at Oracle, Güntner Group, Apx Data Centre Solutions, Trane Technologies, Anthropic, Scality, EdgeCore, JLL, Cushman & Wakefield, and industry bodies such as ASHRAE and EPRI; no single investment amount or project cost is given.
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Patented: Topgolf’s Newest Award and More Inventions Across North Texas
Dallas Invents has reported a weekly roundup of patents granted in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, highlighting Topgolf’s new patent among other local assignees and inventors.
- Topgolf International, Inc. received U.S. Patent No. 12649095 for a Galton configuration in golf ball receiving apparatus and systems that uses RFID tags and an antenna reader to identify golf balls while avoiding jams.
- The article is a news roundup/commentary on patent activity, not a first-time corporate announcement; it also lists other grants to entities including Texas Instruments, Toyota, Samsung, Bank of America, Citibank, USAA, Halliburton, and Akamai.
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The Data Center Water Problem Is Soluble
ITIF has published a policy report arguing that data center water use can be managed through state-led regulation, standardized disclosure, watershed-based review, and targeted federal support.
- The report says states should require facility-level water disclosures, use watershed-specific performance standards, and establish joint water-energy review for large data center loads.
- It also recommends federal action on standardized metrics, procurement, and R&D rather than a national water mandate; examples cited include Nvidia Rubin liquid cooling and Microsoft zero-water cooling designs.
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Nodiac partners with PowerBank to colocate modular data centers with solar and BESS across North America
Nodiac has signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with PowerBank Corporation to formalize a partnership to co-develop modular data centers colocated at PowerBank’s solar and battery storage sites across North America.
- Main announcement: The JDA establishes a defined framework for joint development and cash flow distribution to deploy one–20MW modular data center units at distribution-level interconnection points on sites where PowerBank holds generation capacity, land, and permits; site-specific terms will be negotiated and are subject to definitive agreements, permits, technical feasibility, and financing.
- Background and details: The JDA formalizes an LOI first announced in April; Nodiac has a pipeline exceeding 800MW across more than 500 identified sites in 30+ US states, while PowerBank claims a development pipeline exceeding 1GW with more than 100MW operational; Nodiac also signed an LOI this month with SkyVolt Energy to deploy its modular solution across SkyVolt sites.
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Climate Change Solutions - June 30, 2026
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) recaps Expo2026 panels and highlights recent policy developments.
- Main announcement: EESI summarizes the 29th annual Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency EXPO and Policy Forum (Expo2026), providing links to full recorded panels on topics including permitting reform, energy affordability, data centers, and building and grid resilience; the newsletter links to EESI’s YouTube recordings and lists speakers and organizations for each session.
- Policy and event updates: The newsletter reports the Senate Agriculture Committee’s draft Farm Bill (PDF link provided) and notes the House passed H.R.7567 in April; it also records recent congressional actions including passage of S.629 (Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act) through the House, passage of S.4822 (Saving the Ocean Observatories Initiative Act of 2026) in the Senate, reintroduction of S.4867 (Small Farm Conservation Act), and introduction of S.4870 to reauthorize Earth MRI; it lists upcoming EESI briefings on July 16, 2026 (Nitrogen pollution research roadmap) and July 24, 2026 (drought impacts).
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Carolina West Wireless to Transfer Mobile Network to Verizon
Carolina West Wireless has announced it will shut down its wireless service by Sept. 30, 2026 and transition its network to Verizon.
- Main action:Carolina West Wireless (CWW) will cease wireless operations by Sept. 30, 2026 and is transitioning its network to Verizon; customers who switch to Verizon before July 30 will receive a $150 Mastercard gift card per line and Verizon will not charge mobile line activation fees. CEO Slayton Stewart said the decision reflects rising infrastructure demands and the company pledged support for employees via severance and career services. CWW did not disclose the fate of its FCC-overseen wireless licenses.
- Background and reaction: CWW was founded in 1991 and is owned by a partnership of Skyline Telephone and Surry Communications; the Competitive Carriers Association President & CEO Tim Donovan urged sustainable USF operational expense support for rural carriers and called on Congress and the FCC to act promptly. Links to CWW customer transition FAQs and local reporting are cited in the article.
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FERC show-cause orders aim to speed large-load integration
FERC has issued tailored show-cause orders to six regional RTOs/ISOs requiring them to justify or reform large-load interconnection rules and to provide generation-availability details.
- Main action: FERC issued tailored show cause orders to ISO-NE, NYISO, PJM, MISO, SPP and CAISO giving them 60 days to “justify or reform” interconnection rules for data centers, manufacturing facilities, and other large energy users,” and requiring grid operators and their transmission owners to provide details on how they make adequate generation available within 30 days**.
- Background & specifics: FERC identified five reform categories to address (1) transmission application and study processes including alternative technologies, (2) preventing cost shifting and increasing cost transparency, (3) accommodating co-location agreements and behind-the-meter generation, (4) new transmission services for flexible large loads, and (5) studying generation proximate to large loads. Grid Forward solicited commentary from Bruce Grabow (Sheppard Mullin) and Ray Gifford (Wilkinson Barker Knauer) who emphasized that the order aims to “facilitate speed to power,” noted jurisdictional limits, and compared the action to historic FERC oversight efforts.
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WideOpenWest Expands Broadband Network in Central Florida
WideOpenWest (WOW!) announced expansion of its all-fiber network to 20,000 additional homes and businesses in Seminole and Orange counties, Florida, to be completed by fall 2026.
- Expansion: WOW! will add 20,000 additional homes and businesses in Seminole and Orange counties, Florida to its all-fiber internet network, with availability expected by fall 2026; with this addition the network will reach nearly 75,000 homes and businesses in Central Florida.
- Investment & background: WOW! has invested over $140 million in Central Florida since 2022; the announcement was published via a company release (PR Newswire) and quoted Chief Experience Officer Heather McCallion.
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NAIRR Science Program Reshapes Scientific Research, Powered by NVIDIA AI Infrastructure
NVIDIA announced its contribution to the NAIRR pilot, providing dedicated NVIDIA DGX access and technical support to researchers.
- Main announcement: NVIDIA provided researchers in the NAIRR pilot with a cloud-based resource guaranteeing a minimum of four NVIDIA DGX nodes for at least a month plus technical onboarding and support; the NAIRR pilot has supported over 700 projects across the past two years. The University of Michigan team used a 40-GPU NVIDIA DGX cluster (from a NAIRR allocation) and an additional 200,000 NVIDIA GPU hours on ALCF’s Polaris for MIST model development.
- Background and project details: NAIRR-enabled projects highlighted include Polymathic AI’s Walrus foundation model (dataset, code and pretrained weights made public) for fluidlike simulations, University of Michigan’s MIST molecular models for energy storage fused with LLMs, and Boston University’s BEACON LLM pipeline for infectious disease detection (processing HealthMap, news, social media and other signals). The announcement summarizes implementation over the past two years and documents concrete compute allocations and public releases.