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Daily Science
A hemispherical perovskite solar cell modeled by Chinese researchers averaged 28.25 mW/cm² across sun angles of 0° to 50°, pv magazine reported on October 23. No built device is reported.
Science Desk
Daily Science
Fraunhofer ISE says 25-Ah silicon-rich pouch cells kept over 83% capacity after 1,000+ cycles at 280 Wh/kg. The 330 Wh/kg figure is a projection, and low cell pressure speeds fade.
Science Desk
Cooling & rack power
A CP-OSFP cold plate and a Mini QD connector developed with Ciena put pluggable optics on the liquid loop, but heat, flow and availability figures are unpublished.
Energy & Cooling Desk
Policy & Economics
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Grid
South Korea's renewables topped coal by 283 MW on Oct. 21, the first time, Korea Power Exchange data show. Grid hosting limits and connection rules due in January 2027 now come into focus.
Energy & Cooling Desk
Power
SGE SMR UK and Origin Nuclear signed a letter of intent on a joint venture to operate 14 planned BWRX-300 SMRs, 4.2 GW across three UK sites, with the first unit targeted for 2034. The JV is not yet formed.
Chips & Power Desk
Batteries
Canary Media's analysis of EPRI and SEIA data puts the US grid battery failure rate down more than 97% from 2016 to 2025 as deployments rose 250-fold, though EPRI calls the sample small.
Energy & Cooling Desk
Batteries
Chinese storage maker Sigenergy plans an initial $250 million India build-out, inverters first in Q2 2027, but has named no site and is still seeking investment clearances.
Energy & Cooling Desk
Chips
NVIDIA added MGX 2U and MGX 4U Aerial RAN Computer servers for AI-RAN after T-Mobile's Bellevue call, but gave no power draw, price or shipping dates.
Chips & Power Desk
Batteries
Tesla deployed 13.7 GWh of storage in Q3, up 10%, but analysts expected roughly 15.9 GWh, Electrek reported. Its 10-Q cites Megapack tariff refunds and a lower average selling price per unit.
Energy & Cooling Desk
Data centers
TerraWatt wants to turn Illinois' shuttered 381-acre Alton Steel mill into a data center starting at 200 MW, but rezoning and an Ameren Illinois study decide how much power it can ever draw.
Chips & Power Desk
Chips
NVIDIA B300 GPUs appeared on open monitoring endpoints with Chinese IP addresses, reportedly linked to China Telecom. IP data shows visibility, not ownership or an export violation.
Chips & Power Desk
Batteries
The German home-battery maker, sold by Shell to Tiven this summer, told about 400 staff of its filing on Oct. 22 while sonnen USA says sales doubled. Service for 150,000 customers is meant to continue.
Energy & Cooling Desk
Batteries
Greenvolt Power agreed to sell two built battery storage projects, 400 MW and 1.6 GWh, to Malta-based A&R Investments; closing is expected by the end of 2026.
Energy & Cooling Desk
Chips
A NEDO-selected project led by Japan's LSTC will build 2nm-generation medical imaging AI, starting on IBM's Spyre, targeting 5x GPU speed; no foundry is named.
Chips & Power Desk
Chips
ZDNet Korea reports Samsung ordered tools for 6,000 more 2nm wafers a month at its Taylor fab, filling Fab 1 to 20,000 in H2 2027. Samsung has not confirmed.
Chips & Power Desk
Policy & Economics
DOE released about $967 million more in Grid Resilience formula grants on Oct. 20. States, tribes and territories have until Feb. 17, 2027 to apply, and battery storage and backup generation qualify.
Policy & Economics Desk
Grid
Ofgem's OFTO tender, its largest to date, invites investors to take on the 2.9GW Hornsea 3 transmission assets for up to 25 years of inflation-linked revenue; Ofgem has published no bid deadline.
Energy & Cooling Desk
Chips
NVIDIA's OpenShell Reference Architecture runs agents on Vera CPUs and enforces policy on BlueField-4 DPUs, with a claimed 20% capacity gain that no benchmark yet backs.
Chips & Power Desk
Batteries
Chery says its Volt-dragon charger takes a battery from 10% to 97% in 6 min 50 s, behind CATL's 6 min 27 s record; all figures are vendor claims, and no car or battery is named.
Energy & Cooling Desk
Chips
The FCC waiver lets Intel keep updating the automated guided vehicles that move materials in its US fabs for one year, citing risk to domestic chip manufacturing services.
Chips & Power Desk
Policy & Economics
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