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Lessons From First-Mover States in Distributed Energy Integration
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Lessons From First-Mover States in Distributed Energy Integration

How California, New York, Minnesota and Hawaii are all addressing the capacity analysis problem.

by Jeff St. John |
Regulation & Policy 1
The Best Energy-Themed Games for the Holiday Season

The Best Energy-Themed Games for the Holiday Season

Six ways to show your family the amazing (and bureaucratic) energy industry.

by Ben Kellison and Brady Pierce
Solar-Plus-Storage 15
Rebuilding Puerto Rico’s Grid With Batteries and Solar Would Be the Cheapest Option

Rebuilding Puerto Rico’s Grid With Batteries and Solar Would Be the Cheapest Option

In this week’s episode of The Interchange: we look at AES’ vision for repowering Puerto Rico with solar and storage.

by Stephen Lacey
Utilities 11
How Utilities Charged Consumers $40 Billion for Failed Power Plants

How Utilities Charged Consumers $40 Billion for Failed Power Plants

On this week’s Energy Gang podcast: a look at the best energy journalism of 2017.

by Stephen Lacey
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Demand Response 4
NRG Energy and Cummins’ New Business: Backup Generators as Grid Assets

NRG Energy and Cummins’ New Business: Backup Generators as Grid Assets

How aggregating backup power for demand response and other grid services could unlock a big new C&I distributed energy market.

by Jeff St. John
Markets & Policy 4
Solar gardens are finally blooming in Minnesota.
Industry Perspective

Xcel Energy’s Community Solar Program Hits Major Milestones in Year 3

Fresh Energy looks at the key metrics and behind-the-scenes developments that made Minnesota’s solar garden program a success in 2017.

by Laura Hannah
Commercial & Industrial Energy 1
EDF has expanded its footprint in the U.S. commercial energy market, offering distributed solar and storage to large corporate customers.

Why French Utility EDF Is Entering the US Distributed Storage Market

The company sees an opportunity to hone internal expertise and broaden its offerings to commercial customers.

by Julian Spector
Energy Storage 3
Europe’s Energy Storage Market Is in Transition

Europe’s Energy Storage Market Is in Transition

The region shifts from a reliance on subsidies and solar to install batteries, to market signals and EVs.

by Jason Deign
Policy 7
The tax bill is set to take effect on New Year's Day.

Tax Bill Heads to Trump’s Desk, With Mixed Consequences for Energy

The law is a win for utilities, oil companies and electric vehicles, while renewables sustain a bruise.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant
Electric Vehicles 11
Tesla is so close to delivering on Musk's

The Ups and Downs of Tesla’s Wild Ride in 2017

A look back at the year for Elon Musk’s ambitious energy company.

by Katie Fehrenbacher
Residential Solar 1
New York, Hawaii and others are experimenting with different cost-allocation methods for connecting DERs.
Industry Perspective

Sharing the Burden and the Benefits: The Quandary of Allocating DER Interconnection Costs

In Part 6 of our interconnection series with IREC, Erica McConnell and Laura Beaton examine how to fairly allocate costs for grid upgrades among DER customers.

by Erica McConnell and Laura Beaton
Microgrids 5
Go Electric hopes to tap a commercial market for its seamless backup microgrid technology.

Military Microgrid Startup Go Electric Wants to Bring Energy Resilience to the Private Sector

But are businesses willing to pay for backup power?

by Julian Spector
Regulation & Policy 5
The Australian Energy Market Operator's new CEO has launched a planning exercise to cope with the rise of wind and solar.

Audrey Zibelman Helms Australia’s Grid Through a Giant Wave of Renewables

“Australia is a postcard from the future,” says the former New York regulator.

by Jason Deign
Regulation & Policy 9
Natural gas plants in California may get replaced with energy storage.

Gas Under Threat? California Regulators Target PG&E Natural Gas Plants With Energy Storage

Energy storage, solar and demand response have been used to replace power plants that haven’t been built yet. Can they replace plants that already exist?

by Jeff St. John
Energy Storage 48
LightSail ran out of cash before it could commercialize its much-touted tank-based compressed air storage solution.

LightSail Energy Enters ‘Hibernation’ as Quest for Game-Changing Energy Storage Runs Out of Cash

The California startup, funded by Gates and Thiel, never got beyond the tank.

by Julian Spector
Electric Vehicles 3
San Diego-based Nuvve claims to have deployed the world's first commercially available V2G solution.

EDF Renewable Energy Leads Series A Round in Vehicle-to-Grid Startup Nuvve

It’s just the latest in a series of grid edge investments and acquisitions by European utility giants.

by Julia Pyper
Electric Vehicles 211
How Electric Vehicles Could Sink the Texas Grid

How Electric Vehicles Could Sink the Texas Grid

Analysis shows why utilities need to think hard about future energy systems.

by Jason Deign
California’s 12 Rules of Multi-Use Energy Storage Get the Industry Closer to ‘Value Stacking’
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California’s 12 Rules of Multi-Use Energy Storage Get the Industry Closer to ‘Value Stacking’

The country’s leading storage market sets the rules for stacking storage applications.

by Jeff St. John |
Energy Storage 3
Governor Cuomo Signed New York’s Energy Storage Bill. But Don’t Celebrate Just Yet
Industry Perspective

Governor Cuomo Signed New York’s Energy Storage Bill. But Don’t Celebrate Just Yet

New York needs to take bolder action to build a meaningful storage market, argue Suzanne Hunt and Jigar Shah.

by Suzanne Hunt and Jigar Shah
Energy Storage 18
An artistic approximation of the experimental technology that will store surplus energy by heating up 1,000 tons of rock.

Siemens Gamesa Starts Building Hot Rock Plant for Long-Duration Grid Storage

The Future Energy Solution project in Hamburg will use surplus power to heat rocks to 600 degrees Celsius.

by Jason Deign
Energy Storage 8
A fire engulfs a lithium-ion battery system at an Engie test site in Belgium, Nov. 11.

Engie Investigates Source of Belgian Battery Blaze

The fire last month didn’t hurt anyone, but it destroyed a containerized lithium-ion system.

by Jason Deign
Utilities 5
SoCal Edison is under investigation for causing the disastrous Thomas fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.

California Wildfires Spark Utility Investigations and New Regulations

How much responsibility should utilities bear for fire prevention, and are distributed energy resources part of a grid resilience solution?

by Julia Pyper
Can California Achieve 100% Renewable Electricity by 2040? Jerry Brown Thinks So
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Can California Achieve 100% Renewable Electricity by 2040? Jerry Brown Thinks So

But it will take some major breakthroughs in energy storage and grid regionalization. Plus, some crafty resource planning amid the rise of community-choice aggregation.

by Julia Pyper |
Finance & VC 32
Bill Gates announced Breakthrough Energy Ventures’ initial focus areas for investment in Paris this week.

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Unveils Its 5-Part Investment Strategy

Details on the investment focus and talent driving Bill Gates’ big energy tech fund.

by Katie Fehrenbacher
A Feast of Batteries, A Storm of Storage
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A Feast of Batteries, A Storm of Storage

Tales from GTM’s biggest storage event so far.

by Julian Spector |