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Artist rendering of solar panel-topped electric school buses parked at EV chargers

EV charging

New York City tests a solar-powered electric-school-bus microgrid

Utility Con Edison and school-bus operator First Student see bus-charging depots equipped with solar and batteries as a win-win that supports the power grid.

By Jeff St. John . 4 November 2024

Virtual power plants

Hundreds of New Yorkers got free batteries to help clean up the grid

A novel collaboration between solar installer Sunrun and utility Orange & Rockland shows how New York could tap household solar generation to advance climate goals.

By Julian Spector . 30 October 2024

A computer rendering of Wakfield Municipal Light & Gas Department's battery and generator 'energy park'

Batteries

A Massachusetts town uses batteries to help its grid — and its schools

Batteries can serve double-duty, shoring up the grid and providing backup to buildings when the power goes out. This project shows how.

By Jeff St. John . 7 October 2024

EDP Renewables’ Meadow Lake I wind farm in Illinois.

Transmission

Why won’t PJM let batteries and clean power bolster a stressed-out grid?

The country’s biggest grid operator is preventing developers from adding batteries to existing projects that have extra grid space, in defiance of a federal mandate.

By Jeff St. John . 3 October 2024

Clean energy

Solar and batteries are helping Texas weather heat waves. Here’s how.

Relentless heat has caused Texas to keep breaking electricity-demand records this summer. Good thing solar and batteries are breaking records, too.

By Jeff St. John . 28 August 2024

Long-duration energy storage

Form Energy set to build world’s biggest battery in Maine

The long-duration storage pioneer won DOE grant money to construct a massive iron-air battery intended to help a strained pocket of the New England grid.

By Julian Spector . 15 August 2024

cartoon: huge Energizer Bunny attached to grid battery and a person saying, "It helps us visualize the ancillary services."

Fun stuff

Cartoon: Bigger batteries, bigger bunnies

By Climatoonist . 9 August 2024

EV charging

In a first, electric Ford F-150 trucks are powering homes in Baltimore

Plenty of utilities are talking about using EV batteries as grid assets. Baltimore Gas & Electric is actually doing it.

By Julian Spector . 1 August 2024

Batteries

An optimist’s guide to the EV battery mining challenge

The electric vehicle transition is going to require a lot of mining and materials — but possibly a lot less than everyone thinks, a new report argues.

By Julian Spector . 26 July 2024

Energy storage

Intersect Power to build $837M worth of grid batteries in Texas

The three Texas battery installations are expected to be up and running in 2024, helping provide more capacity to the state’s booming storage market.

By Jeff St. John . 17 July 2024

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Batteries

New York City tests a solar-powered electric-school-bus microgrid

Hundreds of New Yorkers got free batteries to help clean up the grid

A Massachusetts town uses batteries to help its grid — and its schools

Why won’t PJM let batteries and clean power bolster a stressed-out grid?

Solar and batteries are helping Texas weather heat waves. Here’s how.

Form Energy set to build world’s biggest battery in Maine

Cartoon: Bigger batteries, bigger bunnies

In a first, electric Ford F-150 trucks are powering homes in Baltimore

An optimist’s guide to the EV battery mining challenge

Intersect Power to build $837M worth of grid batteries in Texas