Exelon Warns of Potential US Blackouts by 2027, Citing Power Grid Strain and Data Center Demand

The third meeting of the Jiangsu Provincial Energy Committee, also a meeting on ensuring energy and power supply during the summer peak, was held on June 29. The meeting stressed the need to strengthen power security and supply capacity, ensure the timely commissioning of supporting power sources, accelerate the construction of new energy such as distributed PV and offshore wind power, and build a new-type power grid system in conjunction with the "Six Networks"; deepen energy reform and innovation, accelerate energy technology innovation, coordinated development of computing and electricity, and AI empowerment; and establish a power market system with diverse players, orderly competition, and standardized operation.

Recently, Malaysia’s Plus Xnergy Services Sdn Bhd announced that a 20MWh battery energy storage system, deployed at a large food manufacturing facility in Perak, Malaysia, has completed full-capacity grid connection and entered commercial operation. The project was jointly developed by Plus Xnergy and energy storage system supplier HyperStrong. It is positioned as a commercial and industrial self-consumption battery energy storage project, namely a SELCO BESS.

China's first concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in Northeast China—the CGN Jixi Base 100 MW CSP plant—commenced power generation today in Da'an City, Jilin Province, marking a new breakthrough in the application of CSP technology in high-latitude, severely cold regions. Located at 45.36 degrees north latitude with an installed capacity of 100 MW, the plant features a thermal storage duration of up to 8 hours and is capable of 24-hour continuous operation, utilizing a large-area heliostat field array to focus sunlight for heat collection and energy storage.