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Vistra's Moss Landing battery burns again in California
The second major fire at the grid-scale storage facility in roughly two years is intensifying safety scrutiny of the state's battery fleet at the worst possible moment — just as developers race to…
Google pilots a new revenue stream for battery storage
A first-of-its-kind environmental certificate framework lets storage operators earn credits by time-shifting clean electricity on an hourly basis — a mechanism that could reshape how corporate buyers…
Jupiter Power locks in $1.4 billion for 1.5 GW of battery storage
The ten-project portfolio spanning Texas and Michigan represents one of the largest single-developer storage financing packages ever assembled in the U.S., landing as supply-chain headwinds rattle at…
Community solar pulls in $370 million in a single day
Generate Capital and 38 Degrees North closed a combined $377 million in debt financing for nearly 200 MW of projects across New York and Illinois , a striking show of institutional confidence even as…
Ohio regulators unanimously greenlit a 149 MW solar-plus-storage project on a reclaimed coal mine
The decision at the Hamden Energy site in Vinton County drew zero opposition — a striking outcome in a state where clean energy permitting fights have become routine.
EPA moves to erase carbon limits on power plants
The Trump administration's expected repeal of emissions standards for gas and coal generators removes the primary federal constraint on power-sector pollution and reshapes the investment calculus for…
Alabama Power killed a profit-cap bill that passed the House unanimously
The Senate collapse leaves the state's largest utility free from formal rate hearings for the first time in four decades — and renewable energy advocates without the regulatory lever they were…
Commerce finalizes crushing duties on solar imports from three nations
Dumping margins of 65–123% and countervailing duties of 73–174% on cells and modules from India, Indonesia, and Laos will reshape U.S. supply chains and force developers to recalculate project costs…
Invenergy and HASI partner on a 2.7 GW solar-plus-storage portfolio
The deal ranks among the largest joint development agreements announced this year, landing as Q2 data confirms the U.S. solar market installed 11.4 GW in a single quarter despite persistent…
U.S. clean power additions surged 45% in the second quarter
U.S. clean power additions surged 45% in the second quarter, hitting 17.1 GW and pushing cumulative capacity to 388 GW. But a new Trump executive order declaring a national security emergency over…
Local restrictions on U.S. renewables hit 865, killing 9.8 GW in 2025
A Columbia Law School report documents a 14 percent jump in contested projects, raising the cost of siting risk for every developer working outside friendly jurisdictions.
PJM proposes a 6GW backstop capacity auction to tame data-center load that has driven prices up…
PJM proposes a 6GW backstop capacity auction to tame data-center load that has driven prices up more than 1,000% in two years. The move could reshape how batteries compete against gas peakers across…
Canadian Solar opens a 2.1-GW solar cell factory in Indiana
The heterojunction facility in Jeffersonville is the first phase of a $1 billion investment that could reach 6.3 GW, marking one of the largest commitments to domestic solar manufacturing capacity in…
Renewables and battery storage are solving Texas grid crises
New reporting details how clean energy resources stepped up during extreme weather in a state once synonymous with blackout catastrophe, a shift that carries implications for grid planners and…
RWE's $1.2 billion offshore wind exit deal draws scrutiny over Trump donor ties
The settlement, which requires the German developer to abandon its U.S. offshore wind leases in exchange for federal compensation, raises conflict-of-interest questions and signals deepening federal…
Google backs a hybrid zinc-lithium storage project in West Virginia
The 380-MWh system paired with 86 MW of solar marks one of the first utility-scale deployments of zinc-based long-duration storage in Appalachia, signaling that data center operators are now…
Trump's widening crackdown on Chinese grid equipment rattles storage and inverter supply chains
The FCC's expanded Covered List and a presidential executive order declaring a national emergency over foreign bulk-power equipment now target inverters and battery systems connected at 69 kV and…
Trump's bulk-power equipment ban threatens to deepen America's transformer crisis
An executive order restricting foreign-made grid hardware — transformers, inverters, and battery systems — is already rattling supply chains for storage and solar projects nationwide, with…
California sues Trump over offshore wind "extortion racket." The state's lawsuit challenges nearly…
California sues Trump over offshore wind "extortion racket." The state's lawsuit challenges nearly $4 billion in taxpayer-funded lease buyouts that have canceled over a dozen U.S. offshore wind…
Trump bans foreign-made grid equipment in national emergency order
The executive order restricting transformers, inverters, circuit breakers, and energy storage systems from the U.S. bulk-power system gives the Department of Energy 120 days to publish formal rules —…
Dimension Energy lands $857 million for distributed solar across five states
The deal, alongside a separate $300 million tax equity close in California, signals that big capital keeps flowing into solar and storage even as developers brace for federal policy shifts under the…
A 1.3 GW solar factory in South Carolina marks a major domestic manufacturing bet
Translucent Energy's new facility, combined with a tax-abated 150 MW solar-plus-storage project advancing in rural Indiana, signals that clean energy buildout continues across red states even as…
Appalachian Power wants 800 MW of battery storage in Virginia
The utility's twin RFPs, requiring PJM interconnection and commercial operation by March 2030, represent one of the largest single-utility storage procurements in the mid-Atlantic this year — and a…
LG Energy Solution fires up a major battery cell factory in Lansing, Michigan
The plant produces both lithium-iron-phosphate and nickel-manganese-cobalt cells for energy storage and EVs, and its opening drew Trump administration officials — a signal that domestic battery…
LG Energy Solution opens a 35 GWh battery plant in Michigan
The Lansing facility vaults the Korean manufacturer to 80% of North American energy storage system production, reshaping the domestic supply chain at a moment when storage financing is surging.
Ohio's Oak Run solar project nears its final regulatory vote after two years of legal delays
The 800 MW solar and 300 MW storage project — the state's largest — returns to the Power Siting Board after the state Supreme Court rejected most appeals but ordered additional review of visual…
Ohio's largest solar project faces a final permitting decision after two years of legal limbo
The Oak Run Solar Project's fate before the Ohio Power Siting Board will signal how willing state regulators are to push utility-scale renewables through mounting local opposition.
Grid-scale batteries face growing interconnection delays nationwide
The backlog threatens to strand billions in storage investment at the precise moment utilities need those resources most, according to Bloomberg .
$600 billion in Biden-era clean energy funding has largely survived Trump administration budget cuts
A POLITICO analysis finds that spending appropriations have proven far harder to claw back than tax incentives, shielding the bulk of federal clean energy investment even as the White House pushes to…
DOE kills three transmission corridor reviews despite grid strain
The Department of Energy's decision to discontinue National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor reviews lands as utilities across the Northwest warn they need billions in new buildout to keep…