CleanPowerDaily

TODAY'S LEAD: Ford Energy's entry into utility-scale battery storage with a $2 billion investment plan collides with a wave of sodium-ion breakthroughs and BESS deployments across the Sun Belt, signaling that the American energy storage market is entering a new phase of industrial competition — just as the grid buckles under data center demand. Meanwhile, a Virginia solar developer's five-year setback over a wrong interconnection filing underscores the brutal reality that speed and precision now