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Electric Vehicles 55

Elon Musk at Model Y Reveal: ‘This Is the Year of the Solar Roof and Powerwall’

Tesla reveals its Model Y crossover. But only after the CEO gave a Tesla history lesson and touted the solar roof.

by Eric Wesoff
Tying Together the Technology Standards Behind DER-Grid Integration
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Tying Together the Technology Standards Behind DER-Grid Integration

How EPRI’s new open-source software and standard communications model are filling interoperability gaps for utilities, smart inverter vendors and DER aggregators.

by Jeff St. John |
Off Grid/Energy Access 6
Zola plans to displace dirty diesel generators in Nigeria's cities.

Zola Electric Unveils a New ‘Smart’ Storage System to Displace Diesel and Eliminate Outages

Zola designed the Infinity storage system to solve every level of the energy access problem—and will draw on expertise from SolarCity’s Rive brothers to scale.

by Julia Pyper
Batteries, Storage & Fuel Cells 7
The company has declined to comment on how the technology works.

NB Power Licenses Mystery Tech to Build a Hydrogen-Powered Electricity Grid

The Canadian utility has invested millions to use Joi Scientific’s hydrogen process.

by Jason Deign
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Join our exclusive executive briefing covering demand drivers, pricing trends, and how consolidation will impact M&A in the solar, wind and storage markets in the next five years.
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Watch Our Financing Renewables in the US Live Event On Demand Right Here

Join our exclusive executive briefing covering demand drivers, pricing trends, and how consolidation will impact M&A in the solar, wind and storage markets in the next five years.

by Nicholas Rinaldi |
Utilities 2
AEP is accepting applications through April 7.

AEP Launches the Latest Utility Contest for Cleantech Startups

AEP’s IlluminationLab seeks tech for EV charging, grid optimization, efficiency and customer experience.

by Jeff St. John
Utility-Scale Solar 13
Solar installations dipped slightly in 2018.

Utility-Scale Solar Projections Now Exceed Pre-Tariff Forecasts

The latest data from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables shows a year-over-year dip for solar, but growth above pre-tariff levels on the horizon.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant
PV, EV, & Storage 28
We look at the past and future of Tesla's battery and solar business.

What’s Up With Tesla Energy?

Tesla once touted itself as “the world’s only vertically integrated energy company offering end-to-end clean energy products.” What happened to that vision?

by Stephen Lacey
Utilities 2
How digital tools are helping Entergy revolutionize the customer experience.

Entergy VP: We Have to Fundamentally ‘Reshape the Grid’

Delivering electricity to 2.9 million customers in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas, Entergy is implementing advanced data analytics and IOT across all its divisions.

by Juan Monge
Grid Optimization 22
Transmission infrastructure has had trouble keeping pace with the growth of Midwestern wind production.

Siemens Buys Transmission Line to Take Iowa Wind to the Eastern Grid

The 2,100-megawatt line would go underground on a railroad right-of-way in the hopes of speedier permitting.

by Julian Spector
Regulation & Policy 5
PG&E's bankruptcy is shaping up to be one of the most complicated cases of all time.

California Lawmakers Grapple With Risks and Uncertainties of PG&E’s Bankruptcy

Amid broad calls for reorganizing the liability-crippled utility and demands for increased fire safety, no clear path has emerged to solve long-term challenges.

by Jeff St. John
Policy 6
A DOE official said this year's budget is focused primarily on energy and national security.

Trump Administration Cuts Clean Energy Programs Again in 2020 Budget Request

The proposal zeroes out the DOE loan program and ARPA-E budget. An official said funding will focus on “basic science” and clean energy technologies “that make sense to us.”

by Emma Foehringer Merchant
Grid Optimization 10
Local generation helps in places with higher grid congestion, but rates rarely pay for that.

Distributed Energy Still Isn’t Valued Properly, Report Finds

The result is underpaying on some small-scale projects and overpaying for others, with billions of dollars on the line.

by Julian Spector
Microgrids 13
A first-of-its-kind high-performance community and residential microgrid to learn how to better serve changing customer needs.

Welcome to Reynolds Landing: An Alabama Community Spearheading the Grid Edge Transition

Southern Company, Electric Power Research Institute and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have teamed up to design a “smart neighborhood.”

by Justin Gerdes
Utilities 6
Like its peers, EDF is looking to carbon-free generation for future growth.

EDF Wins With the European Utility Clean-Energy Playbook

The French energy firm met or exceeded all financial targets in 2018, with help from renewables.

by Jason Deign
People 1
Terry Jester talks with Emily Kirsch for the Watt It Takes podcast series.

Watt It Takes: Terry Jester Reflects on Four Decades of Solar

This week on Watt It Takes, Solpad CEO Terry Jester brings 40 years of solar experience to startups.

by Stephen Lacey
Off Grid/Energy Access 2
More than $1.2 billion has been invested since 2016.

Report: Investment in Off-Grid Energy Access Totals $1.7B Through 2018

A new Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables report highlights the strategic business case for bringing off-grid energy to the billion-plus people who lack grid power.

by Jeff St. John
Smart Homes/Smart Buildings 5
The technology helps to improve energy efficiency and productivity.
Industry Perspective

How Indoor Space Sensing Makes Buildings Smart and More Efficient

Buildings expert Joe Aamidor profiles use cases for indoor space sensing technology.

by Joseph Aamidor
Utilities 4
Distribution system operators say they need money to adapt to distributed generation.

European Distribution System Operators Seek Cash for Grid Transformation

DSO infrastructures were not designed to connect significant generation assets at the edge of the network, an industry groups warns.

by Jason Deign
Fossil Fuels 17
A new bill in Montana aims to buoy the imperiled Colstrip coal plant.

As Coal Retires, a Montana Bill and a South Dakota Utility Push to Keep It Alive

A state law under consideration would allow NorthWestern Energy to charge customers for future costs tied to a threatened coal plant.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant
Grid Optimization 3
In this podcast, we revisit how to price and integrate distributed resources.

What the Heck Should We Do With All These Distributed Resources?

This week on The Interchange podcast: taking stock of DERs from the utility perspective.

by Stephen Lacey
California’s Complicated Path to Changing Its Resource Adequacy Rules
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California’s Complicated Path to Changing Its Resource Adequacy Rules

Regulators, utilities and community-choice aggregators agree the state’s approach to capacity procurement needs to change—but they don’t agree on how to get there.

by Jeff St. John |
Policy 87
Capacity market reform was a primary driver of the legislation.

New Illinois Bill Targets 100% Renewable—Not Just Clean—Electricity by 2050

Getting to 100 percent renewables is “not just a pie-in-the-sky idea,” according to supporters.

by Julia Pyper
There's a fundamental shift occurring in today's energy system as the industry moves away from thermal resources toward clean resources like wind and solar.
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GTM Squared Live! An Energy Transitions Roundtable

GTM Squared’s quarterly roundtable will discuss the economics, policies and technology trends shaping the energy transition.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant |
The Dynamics of China’s Rapidly Expanding EV Charging Market
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The Dynamics of China’s Rapidly Expanding EV Charging Market

Recent research paints a disjointed picture of China’s EV charging market, where infrastructure is being deployed at a breakneck pace and yet there isn’t nearly enough to keep up with demand.

by Julia Pyper |