Grid edge
California’s race to secure its grid against summer blackouts
Gigawatt-scale batteries and more demand-side resources are lined up. But weather extremes still threaten to stress California’s grid beyond its limits.
Grid edge
Grid edge
Inside a $110M plan to turn NYC apartments into virtual power plants
Logical Buildings and Keyframe Capital are behind the push to help multifamily buildings earn money from cutting energy use and curbing CO2 emissions.
-
-
Solar
PosiGen spurs solar ownership and environmental justice for low-income homeowners
"California is on the list, but it's not like we're going to Silicon Valley — we'll be going to Compton."
-
Grid edge
Voltus raises $31M to go after the grid value of distributed energy
A VoltApp to aggregate DERs and a regulatory strategy to tap into new markets nationwide.
-
Solar
GAF Energy invests in integrated solar rooftops, adds US manufacturing jobs
It's all about "American jobs and California jobs, getting the facility in place, hiring locally and promoting U.S. solar."
-
Grid edge
Inside the GridWise Alliance’s plan for $50B in federal funding for the grid edge
Utilities and tech vendors target the gaps between large-scale clean grid investments and EVs, smart buildings and distributed energy.
-
Climatetech finance
Mainspring Energy raises $95M for linear generators to clean up the grid
The startup envisions its novel technology as a linchpin of a distributed, resilient and renewable power grid.
-
Solar
GAF Energy has installed more solar roofs than Tesla
"The industry will evolve from rack-mounted to building-integrated PV."
-
Energy storage
Are market constraints hampering the evolution of ‘last-mile’ grid resources?
Future grids will need assets on standby for times when there isn't enough wind and solar. But how will these assets be valued and compensated?
-
Electrification
Chart of the day: Fuel cell industry profits
The hydrogen funding wave and the enormous potential of the hydrogen economy boosted the stock price of public fuel cell companies in 2020 — but not their profits.
-
Grid edge
Can a new way to pay for behind-the-meter flexibility help prevent rolling blackouts in California?
Marin Clean Energy’s Demand FLEXmarket merges efficiency and demand response to capture the value of behind-the-meter resources. Could it be the start of a statewide trend?
Sponsored