Energy
Seattle City Light to add 200 curbside EV chargers by 2030
Seattle City Light and the Seattle Department of Transportation will install up to 200 new curbside Level 2 electric vehicle chargers across…
Energy
Grids, renewables, and the policies and investments powering the energy transition.
Energy
Massachusetts utilities pay EV drivers to feed power back to grid
Eversource and National Grid have begun enrolling Massachusetts homeowners with bidirectional-capable electric vehicles into a new program that pays them to send…
Energy
A single fast charger can rack up $4,500 in monthly demand fees even when almost no cars plug in, and that hidden utility charge decides which charging stations survive
A single fast charger can sit mostly idle in a parking lot for weeks. Yet it can still show up on a…
Energy
EV owners on cheap overnight rates trigger the same midnight discount within minutes of each other, and utilities say that shared habit created a new power surge nobody priced for
A porch light clicks off, a garage door hums shut, and somewhere behind the wall a meter starts spinning faster than it…
Energy
TOYO completes 2 GW solar module expansion in Texas
TOYO Co., Ltd. has completed the expansion of its solar module factory in Humble, Texas, lifting the facility's nameplate capacity to 2…
Energy
Toyo expands Texas solar factory amid tariff circumvention probe
Japanese solar manufacturer Toyo Co., Ltd. celebrated the expansion of its Humble, Texas module assembly plant on October 6, even as a…
Energy
A Texas plant will tear apart one retired solar panel every 60 seconds, and still cannot find anywhere to send the thin plastic layer holding each one together
A panel that spent twenty five years bolted to a rooftop now sits on a steel table, its glass face clouded and…
Energy
A solar cell reached 31 percent efficiency without a gram of scarce indium inside it, and the replacement costs a fraction as much to produce
Inside almost every high-efficiency solar cell sits a nearly invisible layer of metal oxide, thinner than a human hair.That layer holds the…
Energy
Antora Energy plans 5.8 GWh thermal battery plant in Kansas
Antora Energy has announced plans for a 5.8 gigawatt-hour thermal battery storage project in Pratt, Kansas, a facility the company says will…
Energy
A Kern County battery plant discharged for 8 straight hours this summer, and it became the first project of its size in the country to double standard storage duration
Late afternoon sun hits a flat stretch of scrubland outside Rosamond, California. Rows of gray steel containers hum quietly in the heat.…
Energy
JCP&L seeks $253 million rate hike, residential bill impact delayed to 2028
Jersey Central Power & Light has asked New Jersey regulators to approve a $253 million increase in base distribution rates plus recovery…
Energy
A single buried mile of power line can cost up to $4 million, and California regulators confirmed ratepayers are on the hook for $27 billion of that wildfire armor
A trench cuts through a quiet roadside shoulder, wide enough to swallow a thick black cable and the crew kneeling beside it.…