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Electric vehicles are going to be a major load on the grid, which makes them either a threat or an opportunity to utilities, depending on how their charging is managed. On Thursday, distributed energy giant Enel X and utility distributed energy management…

Utilities are not solely responsible for wildfires that have ravaged the United States in recent years, but they are responsible for some of the most deadly and destructive fires seen to date. The most notable example is the November 2018 Camp Fire in…

Amazon has added 3.4 gigawatts of new renewable power to its portfolio, taking its total capacity to 6.5 GW.  The company claims that it has now overtaken Google as the largest corporate user of renewables. Amazon's new wind and solar projects are…

2020 has been a remarkable year. It witnessed the coronavirus pandemic, an economic crash, a historic and divisive U.S. election, widespread protests for racial justice and more. And yet, amid all of the turbulence, the world took several major steps toward…

California’s shift toward ending natural gas use in new buildings is reaching a decision point.  This week, the California Energy Commission held its latest workshop on updating the state’s Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards, which will set the…

Solar is taking over California's grid, and the state has to eliminate carbon emissions from power plants by 2045. Those trends suggest the grid will benefit from energy storage that covers a longer period of time than the lithium-ion batteries getting…

A landmark clean energy law enacted this year in Virginia will only equate to a 26 percent reduction in emissions economy-wide by 2050, according to a new analysis, leaving the state far from the cuts required to stave off the worst effects of climate change.…

The U.K. has big plans for heat pumps. Its ten-point plan for a green industrial revolution, published in November to outline policy priorities for achieving a net-zero economy by 2050, is aiming for 600,000 heat pumps to be installed annually by 2028. This is…

The soaring hype surrounding green hydrogen reached new heights this week, as a seven company-strong consortium unveiled plans for a fiftyfold scale-up in production capacity by 2026.  ACWA Power, CWP Renewables, Envision, Iberdrola, Ørsted, Snam and Yara…

The U.K. regulator Ofgem has approved a revised pricing framework for British transmission networks, one meant to avoid sticking consumers with excessive bills while also investing enough to meet the country's net-zero targets. On Tuesday, Ofgem revealed a…

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team has shed light on a key challenge for the nuclear industry: the rising cost of new plants. And the answer provides support to those who believe small modular reactors (SMRs) may ultimately be the best route to…

Six months after inking California’s largest single energy storage procurement, utility Southern California Edison has added another three massive utility-scale battery projects to its portfolio—plus a behind-the-meter battery project with Sunrun. …

A $100 million investment in residential demand response is redefining what "infrastructure" can be.  Infrastructure funds typically invest in tangible things, involving steel and concrete. More recently, they have ventured into new items, like distributed…

Prospects for carbon capture received a boost in September when the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the emerging technology was “critical” for a clean-energy transition. But experts consulted by GTM have acknowledged there is scant likelihood of…

A big part of the world’s electricity decarbonization challenge lies in expanding transmission capacity for wind and solar power — and according to energy experts, Europe and the U.S. are falling behind on that task. Solving this problem will require a…

There are no pumps. You can rent a workspace. If you want, you can take an EV for a test-drive. There’s still coffee. It’s not a filling station as we know it, but U.K. firm Gridserve’s first ‘Electric Forecourt’ launches today and with it we get a…

Stem, the decade-old behind-the-meter battery startup that was seeking a buyer earlier this year to bolster its growth ambitions, is now launching a plan to go public via a special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) reverse merger.  Friday’s…

U.K. venture Xlinks is hoping to succeed with a concept that has eluded others in the past: shipping Saharan renewable energy north of the Mediterranean.  In Xlinks’ case, the plan is to install 10 gigawatts of PV and wind generation capacity along with 25…

Battery manufacturer LG Chem has launched a recall of some of its RESU10H residential battery products in the interest of fire safety. The recall affects certain battery systems containing cells from specific lots produced in 2017 and 2018, according to a…

Climate risk is now the topic du jour in Washington. The Biden transition team identified it as a powerful policy lever in the business world that could help the President-Elect’s climate agenda without Congress.  But how? Could it happen at the Securities…