Nevada utility regulators cleared the way earlier this month for NV Energy to develop two performance-based credit programs for distributed energy resources that provide energy or capacity services during load flexibility events. Under the Energy Grid Services and Capacity Grid Services riders, customer-sited resources would be eligible to receive payments for dispatched energy based on...
Instead of reacting after a fire breaks out, public agencies and utility providers must detect dangerous fires before they ignite. This is where companies like Overstory are trying to make a difference.
Smaller municipal utilities like Silicon Valley Power are getting squeezed by the artificial intelligence build-out. Although Silicon Valley Power is working on doubling its capacity, the utility can’t keep up with rising demand from its customers, such as Nvidia and Intel, that want more immediately. “All the spare capacity we may have had in the...
California and Texas have led the charge on America’s grid battery revolution. Now, a third state is racing to catch up: Arizona. The Grand Canyon State installed more battery capacity than every state besides Texas over the first half of 2026, per a Canary Media analysis of U.S. Energy Information Administration data. It’s the continuation...
To unlock affordable grid capacity, policymakers should require utilities to consider the best-available line technologies by default, while utilities themselves modernize planning to reinforce their affordability commitment to customers.
Solar energy and batteries are making it easier for utilities to meet surging electricity demand during extreme heat, but prolonged high temperatures are exposing other vulnerabilities in the grid. Electricity demand rises as air conditioners work harder in extreme heat, while high temperatures can make parts of the system less efficient and put additional stress...
Rather than causing disparate groups to come together to recognize the importance of all forms of energy, oil prices have resulted in some pushing harder for oil and gas and others pressing harder for solar, wind and batteries. This is a false dichotomy. Both are needed.
Sage Geosystems has hit a big milestone out on a rugged tract near San Antonio: The startup is producing power from its first next-generation geothermal plant. The system is just the third of its kind to come online in the U.S. as the sector races to commercialize the source of on-demand clean electricity. The novel...
TRISO-X has extended its research and development agreement with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) by 30 months. The two organizations have worked together since 2016. Their joint effort centers on improving the chemical engineering methods used to manufacture tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) nuclear fuel. “ORNL has been a critical partner in transforming years of TRISO fuel...
Dominion Energy will need to change its transmission cost allocation policy to directly assign the cost of certain transmission infrastructure to the new large-load facilities — such as data centers — which made that infrastructure necessary, the Virginia State Corporation Commission said in an order filed July 31. The mandatory contribution in aid of construction,...
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