Solar giant Sunrun announced Tuesday that thousands of home solar projects exported power to the grid this summer, reducing energy demand and curbing the use of “peaking” natural gas plants. New ...

Sawtelle-based installer of networked rooftop solar panel and battery systems Haven Energy Inc. has raised $40 million in ...

DULUTH — In Dakota County, south of the Twin Cities, about 44,000 farm and homeowners have signed up for a program that allows their local electric cooperative to control their air conditioners — a ...

Clear Current, the first AI platform to deliver a comprehensive virtual energy manager for enterprise businesses, has secured over $4 million in an oversubscribed Seed Round. Rho Ignition led the ...

This summer could be the first one in which virtual power plants—networks of small batteries that work in tandem to function like power plants—are large enough to make their presence felt by helping ...

Financing to accelerate the company's mission to deploy 26,000 energy storage systems in homes and businesses and integrate with Swell’s 600MWh of virtual power plants (VPP) across the US. SoftBank ...

The grid is no longer a one-way street of big plants pushing power downstream. It’s becoming a crowded ecosystem—rooftop solar, home batteries, virtual power plants, new nuclear, even Bitcoin ...

If what happened on July 29 in California is any indication of the future of the power grid, then there is reason for optimism. Let’s look at it from the perspective of Tom Weldon, who owns a house on ...

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. After years of pilot projects, utilities and battery companies now have ...