Energy
Con Edison’s EV charging program shifts 97% of load off peak
Consumers enrolled in Con Edison's managed charging program kept 97% of their electric vehicle charging outside peak demand hours in 2024, according…
Energy
Grids, renewables, and the policies and investments powering the energy transition.
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A Washington state trial pushed 95 percent of electric vehicle charging into off peak hours automatically, and utilities are dropping flat rate incentives for software that times every plug in itself
A driver plugs in after dinner and walks away without touching a single setting.Hours later, long after the house has gone quiet,…
Energy
Nextnova to build 2 GW solar cell plant in Oklahoma
Nextnova Solar plans to open a 2 gigawatt solar cell manufacturing facility in Yukon, Oklahoma, adding new domestic production capacity to a…
Energy
A polysilicon tariff set a $21 per kilogram floor price in August, but domestic wafer and cell lines cover only a sliver of the solar panels America assembles each year
A pallet of raw silicon wafers sits just inside a factory door in the Southeast, still wrapped in foam.Down the line, robotic…
Energy
Dominion Energy proposes 3.5 gigawatts of battery storage in 20-year Virginia plan
Dominion Energy has proposed adding 3.5 gigawatts of battery energy storage across its Virginia service territory over the next two decades. The…
Energy
Solar farms paired batteries with 16 percent of new capacity this year, up from 2 percent nine years earlier, and federal data confirm the shift is accelerating
A row of solar panels stretches toward the horizon, but the real story sits just behind it now.Parked beside the panels is…
Energy
Arizona court again blocks APS fee on solar customers
An Arizona Court of Appeals panel has again refused to let Arizona Public Service collect an extra monthly charge from customers who…
Energy
A Michigan data center contract sets a $2.26 billion exit fee if the tenant ever walks away, and state regulators built that number to shield other electric customers from the bill
Soybean rows once covered the ground where steel now rises in rural Washtenaw County. Transmission crews have spent months widening the lines…
Energy
Singapore finds geothermal reserves 60 times its annual power use
Singapore has identified underground geothermal reserves that could be more than 60 times greater than the city-state's total annual electricity consumption, according…
Energy
A geothermal heat pump once promised a 5 to 10 year payback on a $30,000 system, but losing a 30 percent tax credit stretched that wait past 15 years
A drilling rig sits in a side yard, its mast angled over a hole barely wider than a dinner plate.Below it runs…
Energy
EIA data show EV charging load growth slowing sharply in 2026
Growth in electricity consumption from electric vehicle charging slowed sharply in the first half of 2026, according to new federal data. Even…
Energy
A California utility offered EV owners $40 a month to let it manage their charging, but fewer than 5 percent signed up, so utilities are betting on automatic price signals instead
A driveway charger clicks on at midnight, then quietly clicks off again before sunrise, obeying a schedule its owner never set.That small…