Energy
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…
Energy
Grids, renewables, and the policies and investments powering the energy transition.
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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…
Energy
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…
Energy
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,…
Energy
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…
Energy
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…
Energy
Illinois cuts Nicor Gas rate hike request by 63 percent
Illinois regulators have slashed Nicor Gas's proposed rate increase by 63 percent, approving a settlement that cuts the company's original $220.8 million…
Energy
A Virginia rate filing pegs a $5.52 monthly discount for every household using 1,000 kilowatt-hours, so regulators want the largest power users covering that cost themselves
A single line on a Virginia utility bill is about to shrink. Nobody touched a thermostat or a light switch to make…
Energy
Startup taps underwater volcano for world’s first subsea geothermal test
A Seattle startup has drilled what it calls the world's first subsea geothermal well and briefly generated net-positive electricity from an active…
Energy
A backyard geothermal loop sunk feet from the next one, and shared boreholes slowly chill the ground so output fades for decades, engineers find
A drill rig sinks a narrow hole a few hundred feet into a suburban backyard, and a coil of black plastic pipe…
Energy
Record grid peaks this summer raise stakes for EV charging load
Three of the largest power grids in the United States set all-time records for peak electricity demand this summer, according to federal…
Energy
A New Jersey utility paid EV drivers roughly 10 cents for every off-peak kilowatt-hour for five years, but that flat credit ends this month, replaced by a rate that charges several times more by the clock
A driveway charger blinks green at midnight while a sedan tops off its battery outside a split-level home in Bergen County.For years…