Why a US Battery Startup Built Its First Factory in Changzhou, China
On September 22, 2026, American energy-storage startup EnerVenue started mass production at its first commercial factory — in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China. Three years earlier, the same company had announced a $264 million plant in Kentucky that would create 450 American jobs. That plan was scrapped in 2024. The factory that actually got built is about […]
Tesla’s Home Batteries Just Powered a City — What the Record 580 MW Virtual Power Plant Means for Canada
On September 9, 2026, more than 140,000 home batteries across California — about 110,000 of them Tesla Powerwalls — discharged a record 580 megawatts to the grid during a heat wave. It was the largest residential virtual power plant (VPP) event ever recorded: thousands of small batteries in people’s garages, coordinated by software, doing the […]