Belgium's transmission operator contracted 1.6 GW for 2028-29 and 0.8 GW for 2030-31; no two-hour batteries were selected for the later year and the 2027-28 top-up needed nothing.
On its 30 October earnings call Exelon put utility-owned storage at 1.5 GW to 3.5 GW, on top of a $1 billion, 500 MW project already proposed in New Jersey.
NEMPulse estimates the NEM's 63 grid-scale batteries took AU$37.62 million in October, 97% of it from arbitrage, with 12 October alone worth AU$6.82 million.
The plan adds 9.2 GW of renewables, 2.3 GW of storage and 3.3 GW of gas plus 2,400 miles of transmission; it is funded with $26 billion of debt and $8 billion of new equity.
Contracted large loads rose 22% to 84 GW, led by a 10.4 GW data centre campus in Ohio; gas generation spending rises to $20 billion and a 702 MW Bloom fuel cell project for Google is under way.
The semiannual outlook cites hyperscaler orders and colocated solar-plus-storage economics; globally it expects 3,098 GW/11,106 GWh by 2036, about ten times today.
Wood Mackenzie still sees 39 GW of new onshore wind by 2030, trims its repowering forecast by 1 GW and limits offshore to 5 GW over the next two years.
The deal, announced on 22 October, points to distributed resources becoming a market-scale asset; PJM demand-response revenue rose 240% in a year to $523.6 million in 2025.
The USITC's final injury vote in the Solar IV case lets Commerce issue antidumping and countervailing duty orders with combined rates reaching 249% for India, 268% for Indonesia and 219% for Laos.
EIA's hourly grid data show PJM at 162.6 GW, ERCOT at 91.1 GW and SPP at 58.0 GW; CAISO, ISO-NE, NYISO and MISO stayed just below their records in the hottest summer on record nationally.
