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
Grids, renewables, and the policies and investments powering the energy transition.
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…
Energy
Canadian Solar plans to double Indiana HJT cell capacity to 6.3 GW
Canadian Solar said it will expand its heterojunction solar cell factory in Jeffersonville, Indiana to 6.3 gigawatts of annual capacity. Trial production…
Energy
Solar panels are getting too heavy for one installer to carry alone, and factories added a 2 millimeter glass layer that cuts moisture damage by more than half
A solar panel coming off a factory line today is often too heavy for one installer to carry alone.The sheet of tempered…
Energy
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…
Energy
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…
Energy
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…
Energy
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…