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Solar and Battery Companies Rattle Utility Powerhouses

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As Tesla and other makers of home energy storage systems ramp up production for modular large-scale lithium-ion batteries that can be stacked together in industrial storage facilities, new wrinkles are coming to the grid. Newer entrants, potential energy powerhouses, are on the rise in Italy, Spain and Denmark.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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The two companies have made a series of deals across the world supplying carsfor the electrification programmes of cities and whole countries – Denmark,Israel and Portugal among them. The widespread adoption of electric cars would put a considerable extra strainon the power-genera-tion industry. Mike, Epworth, UK Ok.