Live coverage of Sunday's Formula 1 Heineken Dutch Grand Prix 2026.
The full official starting order for Sunday's 2026 Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort.
Polesitter Alisha Palmowski extended her lead at the top of the standings as she won the F1 ACADEMY Feature Race in Zandvoort.
Falling prices have made grid-scale storage batteries more attractive, reports Bloomberg. But after decades of stagnant investment, America's grids "are racing to make the upgrades needed to plug them in," with supplies straining for the necessary equipment.
Demand for batteries has skyrocketed as electricity use across the U.S. swells, driven by data centers' booming energy needs and increasing electrification. It's also getting harder to get them connected to power grids... As those upgrades get delayed, storage projects are piling up in interconnection queues from coast to coast. For example, Consolidated Edison Inc., a major utility in New York state, says over the last two years the volume of battery storage projects waiting to be connected has grown by 300%... "The whole process of interconnecting these new power plants got really log-jammed and bottlenecked," said Joseph Rand, an energy policy researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
Nationwide, some 750 gigawatts of energy storage projects — roughly equivalent to the generating capacity of more than 700 nuclear reactors — are in line to get grid connections, according to the lab's research. Not all of these projects will get built. Many developers already abandoned the queue because of delays. Still, the waiting time is increasing; the median was five years in 2025, up from a year and a half in 2015. The flood of battery projects is expected to continue. Wood Mackenzie, an energy consultancy, projects the U.S. energy storage market will quadruple in the next six years...
[Shortages in key equipment] have driven up construction costs and time lines for grid upgrades, leaving utilities struggling to build fast enough. A drought of skilled workers is further slowing them down... In California, PG&E Corp., the state's largest utility, told regulators in January that a key driver of delays was long lead times for specialized equipment. Procuring certain breakers could take nearly four years, according to the utility, which reported a 300% increase in its interconnection workload compared to prior years. In Northern California, for example, holdups to circuit breaker upgrades to a substation in Solano County led to projected delays for two battery projects worth a combined 450 megawatts. Transmission line work in the Bay Area has put another 800 megawatts of energy storage at risk of delay, according to PG&E.
Last year New York's Con Ed started requiring developers to help pay for upgrades if their projects will push power demand and strain infrastructure. But that also drew criticism:
According to a survey conducted by the trade group New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST), the new methodology raised costs by an average of $21 million per project, a 14-fold increase. At least 25 projects have been canceled as a result, according to the group. Battery advocates have appealed to state regulators to get Con Ed to abandon the new policy.
Thanks to Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the news.
Demand for batteries has skyrocketed as electricity use across the U.S. swells, driven by data centers' booming energy needs and increasing electrification. It's also getting harder to get them connected to power grids... As those upgrades get delayed, storage projects are piling up in interconnection queues from coast to coast. For example, Consolidated Edison Inc., a major utility in New York state, says over the last two years the volume of battery storage projects waiting to be connected has grown by 300%... "The whole process of interconnecting these new power plants got really log-jammed and bottlenecked," said Joseph Rand, an energy policy researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
Nationwide, some 750 gigawatts of energy storage projects — roughly equivalent to the generating capacity of more than 700 nuclear reactors — are in line to get grid connections, according to the lab's research. Not all of these projects will get built. Many developers already abandoned the queue because of delays. Still, the waiting time is increasing; the median was five years in 2025, up from a year and a half in 2015. The flood of battery projects is expected to continue. Wood Mackenzie, an energy consultancy, projects the U.S. energy storage market will quadruple in the next six years...
[Shortages in key equipment] have driven up construction costs and time lines for grid upgrades, leaving utilities struggling to build fast enough. A drought of skilled workers is further slowing them down... In California, PG&E Corp., the state's largest utility, told regulators in January that a key driver of delays was long lead times for specialized equipment. Procuring certain breakers could take nearly four years, according to the utility, which reported a 300% increase in its interconnection workload compared to prior years. In Northern California, for example, holdups to circuit breaker upgrades to a substation in Solano County led to projected delays for two battery projects worth a combined 450 megawatts. Transmission line work in the Bay Area has put another 800 megawatts of energy storage at risk of delay, according to PG&E.
Last year New York's Con Ed started requiring developers to help pay for upgrades if their projects will push power demand and strain infrastructure. But that also drew criticism:
According to a survey conducted by the trade group New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST), the new methodology raised costs by an average of $21 million per project, a 14-fold increase. At least 25 projects have been canceled as a result, according to the group. Battery advocates have appealed to state regulators to get Con Ed to abandon the new policy.
Thanks to Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the news.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
GAZA-STAD (ANP/AFP) - Israƫlische luchtaanvallen in de centrale Gazastrook hebben zondag drie mensen gedood, onder wie een kind, meldt de burgerbescherming. Het Israƫlische leger beweerde een "terrorist" te hebben getroffen.
Twee mensen kwamen om het leven bij een luchtaanval in de stad al-Zawayda, onder wie de 4-jarige Mohamed Abdel Salam Taha. Een andere Israƫlische luchtaanval doodde een persoon in het vluchtelingenkamp al-Nuseirat.
De Israƫlische militaire operaties in de Gazastrook zijn niet stopgezet sinds de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump eind juli een routekaart aankondigde die de ontwapening van Hamas en een Israƫlische terugtrekking uit Palestijns gebied omvatte. Hamas accepteerde het plan, maar Israƫl verwierp het.
Volgens het ministerie van Volksgezondheid in Gaza hebben de Israƫli's sinds het ingaan van het staakt-het-vuren in oktober 2025 1286 Palestijnen gedood. In diezelfde periode sneuvelden vijf Israƫlische soldaten en een burger.
Max Verstappen is gecrasht in de laatste Dutch Grand Prix van Zandvoort. De viervoudig wereldkampioen raakte aan het einde van de eerste ronde de controle kwijt over zijn Red Bull en reed de auto vol in de vangrails. Zijn auto was te beschadigd om verder te rijden.
De Nederlander stapte ongedeerd uit de auto. "I am okay", waren zijn eerste woorden over de teamradio.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Beachvolleyballers Stefan Boermans en Alexander Brouwer hebben de Nederlandse titel veroverd. Het duo, dat sinds mei samenspeelt, was in Den Haag in de finale veel te sterk voor Matthew Immers en Leon Luini: 21-14 21-11.
Voor Boermans (31) was het zijn derde nationale titel op rij, nadat hij het NK de afgelopen jaren al won samen met Yorick de Groot. Met zijn nieuwe partner Brouwer (36) schreef de Hengeloƫr in juli al het prestigieuze Elite16-toernooi in Gstaad op zijn naam.
Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
Heading for the train station after a day at work.
Adelaide Railway Station, Adelaide. South Australia
Embassy in London says Andrey Kelin left last month after seven years in diplomatic post
Russia has withdrawn its ambassador to the UK, it has emerged, as the Kremlin continues to try to put pressure on Britain over its support for Ukraine.
Andrey Kelin left last month after seven years in the diplomatic post, according to the Russian embassy in London.
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