VPP participation jumped 400% annually, with 106K+ homes now enrolled in Sunrun’s VPP programs nationwide. Battery attachment rates hit 70% among new customers in Q3, up 60% in the last year, pushing ...

Maine’s community solar boom has rewritten the state’s energy landscape, but the success comes with growing pains. (WMTV) Net energy billing has scaled from 17 MW of solar in 2015 to more than 1,600 ...

Pennsylvania is backing out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, ending a six-year fight over whether the state would ever join. (Inside Climate News) Lawmakers folded the withdrawal into a must ...

Massachusetts lawmakers are advancing a bill that would pull back major pieces of the state’s 2030 climate plan in the name of affordability. (Rhode Island Current) The proposal would make the 2030 ...

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With America’s grid running into a capacity wall, DOE is leaning on grid-enhancing technologies to squeeze more capacity out of today’s wires without waiting a decade for new transmission. (DOE) ...

Could not resist this cartoon by Tom Toro this morning. Crushed for time, will just drop in this witty single panel, all the time I have. My motivation is also based on the fact that there is a ...

Congressional Democrats are pressing the White House to explain how it plans to curb rising electricity costs tied to the data center boom. (WSJ) The group is criticizing tech giants like Meta, OpenAI ...

The electricity pricing model was created and very successful (for about a century) for firm, "centralised" generation, mainly hydroelectric and thermal. Recently, important changes have occurred.

Chevron is planning a massive 2.5 GW natural gas plant in West Texas to supply an AI data center. (WSJ) The oil giant says it’s in “exclusive negotiations with a premier customer” for the off-grid ...

The results of this week's existing energy auctions show prices for 3 years at R$ 213/MWh. Currently traded free market prices are in the range of R$ 183/MWh for this period. This means that free ...

TVA plans to add up to 1.5 GW of battery storage by 2029, marking its first major step toward modernizing a fossil-heavy grid. (WPLN) Fossil fuels still dominate TVA’s mix (53% in FY2025), though ...