Battery storage major says costs have fallen 60 pct in two years, helping redefine the grid and customer needs, and along with solar is cheapest and easiest to build. The post Battery […]
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Texas Just Approved the Largest Gas Power Project in U.S. History
Texas’ environmental regulator this week issued the largest air pollution permit in the country to an enormous planned complex of gas power plants and data centers near the oilfields of the Permian Basin, according […]
Big batteries are pushing down current and expected prices in the evening peaks
Batteries are clearly impacting evening peak spot prices, resulting in lower average spot prices and lower expected baseload futures prices The post Big batteries are pushing down current and expected prices in […]
New Pumped Hydro Energy Storage System Needs No Mountains
A new, compact pumped hydro energy storage system uses lower elevations and sloping hills, avoiding the cost and environmental impacts of mountain-based storage systems. The post New Pumped Hydro Energy Storage System […]
Unleashing a solar plus storage tidal wave
Grid infrastructure has been in the spotlight for years, even before the AI-driven data center boom we’ve had headlines of long interconnection queues for both demand and generation. Now it is a […]
World’s largest compressed air energy storage facility goes online in China salt caverns
The world’s largest compressed air energy storage facility has reached full operation in underground salt caverns in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu. The post World’s largest compressed air energy storage facility […]
U.S. wholesale day-ahead electricity prices rose in 2025 with higher natural gas prices
Average wholesale day-ahead electricity prices at most major trading hubs in the Lower 48 states were higher in 2025 than in 2024, driven largely by higher natural gas prices to electric generators. […]
Rising Chinese module prices will be ‘short-term’, says Rystad Energy
Early this year, the Chinese government confirmed plans to remove the 9% export tax rebate on solar wafers, cells and modules from April. This will see some costs that were previously absorbed […]
Study finds much lower-than-expected degradation in 1980s and 1990s solar modules
Researchers at SUPSI found that six Swiss PV systems installed in the late 1980s and early 1990s show exceptionally low degradation rates of just 0.16% to 0.24% per year after more than […]
New transmission line connecting Hydro-Quebec to ISO-NE begins commercial operations
Over the past few years, Independent System Operator-New England (ISO-NE) has relied less on Canada for electricity. On January 16, 2026, the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC), a 1,200 megawatt (MW) […]
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