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Electric vehicle chargers, behind-the-meter batteries are a major untapped resource for balancing California's grid.

Unlocking California’s Gigawatt-Scale Distributed Energy Potential

California has nearly 5 GW of distributed energy resources today and may have 13.5 GW by 2025. How can they help stop rolling blackouts?

6 hours ago by Jeff St. John

Regulators in Maine okayed solar, biomass and wind projects.

Solar Dominates Maine’s Largest Renewables Procurement on Record

The state hopes to reach 100 percent renewables by 2050.

1 hour ago by Emma Foehringer Merchant

4 Questions for Tesla’s Battery Day

Can Elon Musk wow the world with battery science?

22 hours ago by Julian Spector

World’s Biggest Wind Farm Will Boast World’s Largest Installed Turbines

On the day it walks away from coal, GE bags a huge 2.4-gigawatt turbine order for the U.K.‘s Dogger Bank project.

8 hours ago by John Parnell

Duke Energy opened its new 560MW Asheville combined cycle natural gas plant this year. (Photo: Duke)

‘Math Doesn’t Yet Add Up’ for Utility Decarbonization Goals: Deloitte

There are big gaps between U.S. utilities’ net-zero targets and their plans for retiring coal and gas plants.

1 day ago by Jeff St. John

GTM Squared Insights

Does Solar Have an Innovation Problem?

1 day ago by Emma Foehringer Merchant

How Grid Operators Are Getting a Grip on the Rising Hybrid Renewable-Battery Resource

4 days ago by Jeff St. John

5 Lessons From the Battery Fire Investigations

6 days ago by Julian Spector

FERC allows full-scale market participation by batteries, EV chargers, smart appliances and more — but the rules for making that happen will be complicated.

September 17, 2020 Grid Edge

‘Game-Changer’ FERC Order Opens Up Wholesale Grid Markets to Distributed Energy Resources

6 by Jeff St. John

September 21, 2020 Energy Storage

4 Questions for Tesla’s Battery Day

3 by Julian Spector

Major utilities including Dominion and Duke have committed to eliminating their carbon pollution by midcentury.

September 16, 2020 Grid Edge

The 5 Biggest US Utilities Committing to Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

8 by Jeff St. John

GTM helps explain the weird and wonderful world of clean energy.

09.09.20

So, What Exactly Are Small Modular Nuclear Reactors?

289 by Jason Deign

09.11.20 Energy

Renewables Start to Outpace Fossil Fuels on Europe’s Grid

66 by Stephen Lacey

Winter-peaking electric heating and seasonally variable renewables make for Southeast-specific challenges.

09.08.20 Solar

How Duke’s Unique Energy Landscape Dictates Its Path to Net Zero

63 by Jeff St. John

Read Verisk's statement on racial equity and diversity

09.22.20 Solar 2

More performance data and greater transparency are coming to the U.S. solar market.

Industry Perspective

#Solar100’s Jigar Shah and Van Skilling on the Evolution of the Solar Asset Class

Richard Matsui, founder and CEO of kWh Analytics, speaks with co-founder and president of Generate Capital Jigar Shah and former CEO of Experian and chairman of CoreLogic Van Skilling.

by Richard Matsui

GTM Squared

Does Solar Have an Innovation Problem?

PV will be the largest source of new power generation capacity in the decades ahead. Even so, more R&D spending could pay big dividends.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant | September 21, 2020

09.21.20 Solar 3

Solar self-consumption in South Australia can force system demand to fall below safe levels.

How South Australia Is Dealing With Rampant Solar Growth

Remote shutdowns and voltage management aim to tackle peak PV production.

by Jason Deign

09.18.20 Energy Storage 21

Startup e-Zinc turned to zinc as a cheaper vehicle for long-duration storage than conventional lithium-ion chemistries. (Image credit: e-Zinc)

Can a Novel Zinc Battery Deliver Clean Multiday Backup Power?

California is testing Canadian startup e-Zinc’s long-duration technology to keep businesses powered through wildfires and outages.

by Julian Spector

07.26.20 PODCASTS

Biden’s Trillion-Dollar Climate Ambitions

On this week’s episode of The Energy Gang: Biden supercharges his clean-energy infrastructure dreams.

by Stephen Lacey

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How Grid Operators Are Getting a Grip on the Rising Hybrid Renewable-Battery Resource

GTM Squared

How Grid Operators Are Getting a Grip on the Rising Hybrid Renewable-Battery Resource

Battery-backed solar, other generation-storage combos, are coming online at record levels. But integrating them is a tricky proposition.

by Jeff St. John | September 18, 2020

09.18.20 Energy 10

Chevron recently invested in Seattle-based fusion startup Zap Energy.

Why Are Oil and Gas Companies Investing in Nuclear Fusion?

Nuclear fusion still looks like a long shot, but oil companies like Chevron are showing more interest.

by Jason Deign

09.17.20 Policy 7

Benji Backer embarked on a 50-day EV road trip this week to highlight local climate solutions.

How Conservative Youth Are Mobilizing Republicans Around Climate Action

On this week’s Political Climate, we speak to Benji Backer of the American Conservation Coalition about what Republicans are getting right and wrong on climate heading into the 2020 election.

by Julia Pyper

09.17.20 Grid Edge 6