Distributed energy resources

Batteries

Base Power lands $200M for rapidly growing home-battery business

The Texas startup wants to become the fastest battery installer in ERCOT by this summer. It will use the new funds to build a factory and expand into other states, too.

By Julian Spector . 9 April 2025
Electrification

Massachusetts home-electrification pilot could offer a national model

Installations are wrapping up this month for the turnkey program providing solar, heat pumps, and batteries to households that couldn’t otherwise afford them.

By Sarah Shemkus . 7 April 2025
Electrification

Span’s new smart electrical panel can plug right into utility meters

Adding EVs and heat pumps can be costly for households and utilities. This Bay Area startup says a smaller version of its smart electrical panel could help.

By Jeff St. John . 25 March 2025
Electric vehicles

How Massachusetts is trying to turn EVs into grid batteries

A first-of-its-kind “vehicle-to-everything” pilot is giving out 100 free chargers to test how EVs can earn money for sending backup power to the grid.

By Jeff St. John . 24 March 2025
Solar

California's rooftop solar debate is raging again

Advocates fear more cuts to the state's battered rooftop solar incentives as regulators consider “cost-shift” arguments in their bid to lower utility bills.

By Jeff St. John . 6 March 2025
Batteries

Base Power offers Texans big backup batteries, no purchase necessary

The Austin-based startup handles everything from battery design to installation and maintenance. Then it makes money bidding the batteries into ERCOT energy markets.

By Julian Spector . 27 February 2025
Distributed energy resources

Minnesota tribe could soon get a solar-powered resilience hub

A pair of developers are working to build a microgrid at an elementary school and community center on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.

By Frank Jossi . 27 November 2024
Solar

Solar is helping schools save big. Your district could be next.

Nearly 9,000 K-12 schools nationwide have installed solar panels. Here’s how you can help your district tap into the cheap, clean energy source.

By Akielly Hu . 31 October 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
Solar

How solar microgrids are bringing power (and quiet) to North Carolina

In areas hit by Hurricane Helene, the nonprofit Footprint Project is replacing noisy and polluting generators with solar panels and batteries.

By Elizabeth Ouzts . 28 October 2024

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Distributed energy resources

Base Power lands $200M for rapidly growing home-battery business

Massachusetts home-electrification pilot could offer a national model

Span’s new smart electrical panel can plug right into utility meters

How Massachusetts is trying to turn EVs into grid batteries

California's rooftop solar debate is raging again

Base Power offers Texans big backup batteries, no purchase necessary

Minnesota tribe could soon get a solar-powered resilience hub

Solar is helping schools save big. Your district could be next.

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

How solar microgrids are bringing power (and quiet) to North Carolina