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BENGALURU, India — At a Coca-Cola factory on the outskirts of Chennai in southern India, a giant battery powers machinery day and night, replacing a diesel-spewing generator. It's one of just a handful of sites in India powered by electricity stored in batteries, a key component to fast-tracking India's energy transition away from dirty fuels.    The country's lithium ion battery storage industry — which can store electricity generated by wind turbines or solar panels for when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing — makes up just 0.1% of global battery storage systems. But battery storage is growing fast, with around a third of India's total battery infrastructure coming online just this year.    "Our orders are growing exponentially," said Ayush Misra, CEO of Amperehour Energy, the company that installed the batteries at the Chennai factory. "It's a really exciting time to be a battery storage provider."    Businesses invest in industry India currently has around 100 megawatts of storage capacity from batteries, with another 3.3 gigawatts of clean energy storage coming from hydropower. The Indian government estimates that the country will need about 74 gigawatts of energy storage from batteries, hydropower and nuclear energy by 2032, but experts think the country actually needs closer to double that amount to meet the country's energy needs.  Some customers are still wary of using battery technology for storage, and the storage systems can be seen as more expensive than the more commonly used coal. The supply chain of batteries is also concentrated in China, meaning the sector is vulnerable to geopolitical volatility.  But markets don't think customers will be hesitant about batteries for long, with major Indian businesses announcing significant investments in the industry.    In January this year, energy giant Reliance Industries said it will build a 5,000-acre factory in Jamnagar, Gujarat. And in March, Goodenough Energy said it will spend $53 million by 2027 to set up a 20 million kilowatt-hour battery factory in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir.    Alexander Hogeveen Rutter, an independent energy analyst based in Bengaluru, said upping storage capacity should be done alongside ramping up renewables.  "Clean energy combined with adequate storage can be an alternative to coal. Not in the future but right now," he said. He added that it's a "myth" that clean energy is more expensive than coal, as current prices of renewable energy combined with storage is cheaper than new coal.    Global battery costs are declining faster than expected, and experts say that if costs continue to plummet, energy storage systems can better compete with both coal and clean energy sources like hydropower and nuclear energy that can also control their supply to meet demand.  "Battery storage is now the largest resource to meet California's evening peak electricity requirements. It's more than gas, nuclear or coal," he said. This is being replicated in the U.K., China and even smaller nations like Tonga. "There's no reason why this can't happen in India too," he said.    India's energy needs grow One of India's unique challenges is that energy needs are growing more rapidly than most nations: the population is increasing and extreme heat fueled by climate change means more and more people are using energy-guzzling air conditioning. India's electricity demand grew by 7% last year and is expected to grow by at least 6% every year for the next three years, according to the International Energy Agency.  "The country needs to quadruple its renewable energy deployment just to meet demand growth," said Hogeveen Rutter.  Ankit Mittal, co-founder of Sheru, a software company that offers energy storage and management solutions, said that making battery storage sites more flexible can help the industry ramp up quickly.    Mittal said battery storage sites should be more accessible to the national energy grid, so they can provide electricity to whichever regions need the extra boost of energy most. Currently, battery storage sites in India only power up more local sites.    To encourage further growth of the battery sector, the Indian government announced last year a $452 million effort to support an additional four gigawatts of battery storage by 2031. But the government also provides subsidies for coal plants, making the electricity generated there a cheaper bet for some utility companies.  Future government policy could level the playing field. The country is set to announce a new national budget later in July that industry leaders hope will contain incentives for clean energy storage.  Akshat Singhal, co-founder of the Bengaluru-based battery tech startup Log 9 Materials, thinks that better government support can help the country meet growing energy demands "the right way," with clean energy.  "One significant policy change can kickstart the entire ecosystem," he said. 

sydney — Australia's cyber intelligence agency said on Saturday that "malicious websites and unofficial code" were being released online claiming to aid recovery from Friday's global digital outage, which hit media, retailers, banks and airlines.  Australia was one of many countries affected by the outage that caused havoc worldwide after a botched software update from CrowdStrike.  On Saturday, the Australian Signals Directorate — the country's cyber intelligence agency — said "a number of malicious websites and unofficial code are being released claiming to help entities recover from the widespread outages caused by the CrowdStrike technical incident."  On its website, the agency said its cyber security center "strongly encourages all consumers to source their technical information and updates from official CrowdStrike sources only."  Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neil said on social media platform X on Saturday that Australians should "be on the lookout for possible scams and phishing attempts."  CrowdStrike — which previously reached a market cap of about $83 billion — is a major cybersecurity provider, with close to 30,000 subscribers globally. 

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Paris — Airlines were gradually coming back online Saturday after global carriers, banks and financial institutions were thrown into turmoil by one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years, caused by an update to an antivirus program. Passenger crowds had swelled at airports Friday to wait for news as dozens of flights were canceled and operators struggled to keep services on track, after an update to a program operating on Microsoft Windows crashed systems worldwide. Multiple U.S. airlines and airports across Asia said they were now resuming operations, with check-in services restored in Hong Kong, South Korea and Thailand, and mostly back to normal in India and Indonesia and at Singapore's Changi Airport as of Saturday afternoon. "The check-in systems have come back to normal [at Thailand's five major airports]. There are no long queues at the airports as we experienced yesterday," Airports of Thailand President Keerati Kitmanawat told reporters at Don Mueang airport in Bangkok. Microsoft said the issue began at 1900 GMT on Thursday, affecting Windows users running the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity software. CrowdStrike said it had rolled out a fix for the problem, and the company's boss, George Kurtz, told U.S. news channel CNBC he wanted to "personally apologize to every organization, every group and every person who has been impacted." It also said it could take a few days to return to normal. U.S. President Joe Biden's team was talking to CrowdStrike and those affected by the glitch "and is standing by to provide assistance as needed," the White House said in a statement. "Our understanding is that flight operations have resumed across the country, although some congestion remains," a senior US administration official said. Other industries Reports from the Netherlands and Britain suggested health services might have been affected by the disruption, meaning the full impact might not yet be known. Media companies were also hit, with Britain's Sky News saying the glitch had ended its Friday morning news broadcasts, and Australia's ABC similarly reporting major difficulties. By Saturday, services in Australia had mostly returned to normal, but Sydney Airport was still reporting flight delays. Australian authorities warned of an increase in scam and phishing attempts following the outage, including people offering to help reboot computers and asking for personal information or credit card details. Banks in Kenya and Ukraine reported issues with their digital services, while some mobile phone carriers were disrupted and customer services in a number of companies went down. "The scale of this outage is unprecedented and will no doubt go down in history," said Junade Ali of Britain's Institution of Engineering and Technology, adding that the last incident approaching the same scale was in 2017.   Flight chaos While some airports halted all flights, in others airline staff resorted to manual check-ins for passengers, leading to long lines and frustrated travelers. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration initially ordered all flights grounded "regardless of destination," although airlines later said they were reestablishing their services and working through the backlog. India's largest airline, Indigo, said operations had been "resolved," in a statement posted on social media platform X. "While the outage has been resolved and our systems are back online, we are diligently working to resume normal operations, and we expect this process to extend into the weekend," the carrier said Saturday. A passenger told AFP that the situation was returning to normal at Delhi Airport by midnight on Saturday with only slight delays in international flights. Low-cost carrier AirAsia said it was still trying to get back online and had been "working around the clock toward recovering its departure control systems" after the global outage. It recommended passengers arrive early at airports and be ready for "manual check-in" at airline counters. Chinese state media said Beijing's airports had not been affected. In Europe, major airports, including Berlin’s, which had suspended all flights earlier on Friday, said departures and arrivals were resuming. 'Common cause' Companies were left patching up their systems and trying to assess the damage, even as officials tried to tamp down panic by ruling out foul play. CrowdStrike's Kurtz said in a statement his teams were "fully mobilized" to help affected customers and "a fix has been deployed." But Oli Buckley, a professor at Britain's Loughborough University, was one of many experts who questioned the ease of rolling out a proper fix. "While experienced users can implement the workaround, expecting millions to do so is impractical," he said. Other experts said the incident should prompt a widespread reconsideration of how reliant societies are on a handful of tech companies for such an array of services. "We need to be aware that such software can be a common cause of failure for multiple systems at the same time," said John McDermid, a professor at York University in Britain. He said infrastructure should be designed "to be resilient against such common cause problems."

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