Bloomberg Three years after Elon Musk took up a challenge to solve Australian power outages by building the world’s biggest battery, a Siemens AG venture wants to install even larger ones to bolster renewable investment in the nation. Fluence, a partnership between Germany’s Siemens and Arlington, Virginia-based AES Corp, is proposing to build two giant lithium-ion batteries at strategic points ...

Bloomberg China completed construction of a $3.17 billion ultra-high voltage (UHV) electricity line that for the first time will transport only clean energy. It’s the first UHV line in the world built to transmit only carbon-free electricity, its developer, State Grid Corp of China, said. It will allow more renewables to be developed in Qinghai and Gansu provinces and deliver ...

Military leaders don’t like using troops for domestic purposes. It violates every rule they’re taught. You could see that wariness in the face of Gen Mark A Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, after President Trump told governors that he’d just put Milley “in charge” of cracking down on protestors. Following Trump’s exhortation to the governors to ...