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Batteries

This utility keeps customers cool during heat waves while saving them money

Vermont’s Green Mountain Power helped thousands of customers get home batteries. Now it taps them at peak times to prevent high costs and grid outages.

By Julian Spector . 11 August 2022
Western Energy News

Washington tribes oppose massive pumped hydro storage facility

9 August 2022
Climate activists: “we have to make them see it’s not a tomorrow problem”

By Ken Paulman . 18 July 2022
Midwest Energy News

Minneapolis project explores neighborhood-level grid resilience

By Dan Haugen . 18 July 2022
ENN

Xcel Energy to test resilience hubs in three Minneapolis neighborhoods

The utility will spend nearly $9 million integrating solar, batteries, and microgrid technology at three community sites as part of a broader grid modernization plan recently approved by state regulators.

By Frank Jossi . 18 July 2022
ENN

Xcel taps Colorado leader to help prepare utility for carbon-free future

In an interview with the Energy News Network, Xcel Energy’s new chief planning officer Alice Jackson talks about the potential role of storage, hydrogen and nuclear as the utility tries to zero out its carbon emissions.

By Allen Best . 15 July 2022
Podcast

Helping early-stage climatetech startups survive the valley of death

The challenges of funding new climatetech solutions.

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By Shayle Kann . 14 July 2022
Western Energy News

Biden decision on Willow drilling project looms

27 June 2022
Clean energy

These generators can switch from running on fossil fuels to clean fuels

Mainspring Energy’s “flexible-fuel” on-site generators could make it much easier for customers to clean up their act as hydrogen and ammonia fuels become increasingly available.

By Jeff St. John . 23 June 2022
EV charging

Schneider Electric buys EV Connect to open up its EV-charging options

Charging an EV needs to be as simple as filling a gas tank or using an ATM card. Open-standards-based software can bridge the technology gaps.

By Jeff St. John . 21 June 2022