"This astounds me! I'm in Australia. We ordered our PW2 in November 2017 and had it (along with a 10 kW solar system) fully installed and running in January 2018,” the Tesla Motor Club member ...

Natural-gas peaker plants may soon be under threat in a very real way. “I can’t see a reason why we should ever build a gas peaker again in the U.S. after, say, 2025,” said Shayle Kann, a ...

Form Energy, the stealthy, Bill Gates-backed startup, has secured its first utility deal for a novel super-long-duration energy storage technology. And its stated capability blows away anything ...

Transmission developers have long said that if only a few big renewable-linked projects could get built, the path would open to others once the benefits were made manifest. That theory was largely ...

The commonly held view that lithium-ion batteries are not being recycled is not true. It’s just that China has pretty much cornered the market, experts say. China recycled around 67,000 tons of ...

The Trump administration’s solar tariff saga continues.After months of legal back-and-forth, a ruling in the U.S. Court of International Trade has reinstated tariffs on two-sided solar panels ...

Spillover into other markets At the same time, growth in German offshore wind installations is creating problems for Germany’s neighbors. TenneT, the transmission system operator that serves the ...

California’s heat-wave-driven rolling blackouts last month, and the threat of more to come, have focused state political leaders and energy regulators on how to fix the California Public ...

“Inverters are constantly going down and going offline,” said Corbitt. “Somebody has to be there on the site to troubleshoot.” Origis prefers including corrective maintenance in the ...

NEC Energy Solutions reportedly never made a profit since its Japanese parent bought the grid storage arm of A123.

One of the most complicated challenges of a 100 percent renewable power grid is how to replace the inertial stability provided by the spinning generators that the modern grid is built to serve ...

Fluence, one of the largest suppliers of large-scale energy storage for the grid, is not a startup. It was formed as a joint venture between two massive global energy companies, power producer AES ...