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Four-hour battery storage now undercuts gas peakers nationwide
Four-hour battery storage systems reaching commercial operation in the United States this year cost 65 percent to 75 percent less than new…
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A Minnesota battery pack is being built to run nonstop for 100 hours on rusting iron, and that is roughly ten times longer than the lithium batteries that dominate the grid today
A quiet field in rural Minnesota is filling up with steel enclosures the size of shipping containers, wired together and waiting for…
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Consumers Energy seeks $456 million Michigan electric rate hike
Consumers Energy has asked Michigan regulators for permission to collect an additional $456 million a year from electric customers, a request now…
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A Pennsylvania gas customer charge climbs from $16.25 to $20 a month before anyone burns a single therm, so regulators blocked a bigger jump utility wanted and barred new rate hikes until 2029
A small metal box bolted to the side of a Pennsylvania house ticks along all winter, measuring nothing more than whether the…
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Fervo Energy starts commercial geothermal power at Cape Station
Fervo Energy announced on October 1 that the first power-generating unit at its Cape Station project in Beaver County, Utah, has reached…
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A homeowner drilled a geothermal well on a tight December 31 deadline expecting a 30 percent tax credit worth up to $10,500, but finishing two weeks late erased that refund entirely
A drilling rig sits parked in a suburban side yard, its mast pointed at a narrow hole in the frozen ground.Coiled plastic…
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North Carolina co-ops launch telematics EV charging grid program
North Carolina's Electric Cooperatives has launched a managed charging program that pays members up to $120 a year to shift electric vehicle…
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A charging network crossed 80,000 fast ports this summer, but usage held flat at 16 percent, and rival companies are closing the station-size gap with the dominant EV maker
A driver pulls up to a bank of six fast chargers on a highway shoulder, and only two of the cables are…
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T1 Energy wins Commerce waiver to import 1.725 GW of solar cells
T1 Energy has received a waiver from the U.S. Department of Commerce allowing it to import up to 1.725 gigawatts of solar…
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A Georgia plant is racing to fuse glass, wafers and cells under one roof, but new industry data shows only 10 gigawatts of wafer capacity feeds a much larger assembly line nationwide
Inside a sprawling factory in Cartersville, Georgia, raw polysilicon enters one end of the building. Panels roll out finished at the other,…
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Buffalo apartment building gets indoor battery storage system
A battery energy storage system is now operating inside an occupied apartment building in Buffalo, New York, in what developers describe as…
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A Sacramento factory will turn out 4 gigawatt hours of sodium batteries a year starting early next year, and it is the first US plant built solely for this grid chemistry
A warehouse-sized shell on the edge of Sacramento sits mostly empty right now. Soon it will be stacking steel battery enclosures the…