Home with solar and a Tesla Powerwall energy storage system. Credit: Tesla. By Rob Uek, Contributor The electric utility industry has been buffeted by two recent trends that threaten to upend the profitability, and in some cases the future viability of, those companies that are slow to adapt to a ne...

Image by PIXERATTI from Pixabay By Christopher Martin and Naureen S. Malik, Bloomberg It may be time to start building power plants in Texas again. The state’s generators made a killing this week as unrelenting heat sent electricity prices skyrocketing to unprecedented levels, briefly blowing pas...

New textile-based solar cells developed by Fraunhofer researchers, semitrailers could soon be producing the electricity needed to power cooling systems or other onboard equipment. In short, textile-based solar cells could soon be adding a whole new dimension to photovoltaics, complementing the use o...

The term “utility player” means one thing to a sports club and something else entirely for a electric power trade show, but they are vital to the team effort either way. The latter effort gained a big boost this past week when key industry leaders from six more utilities globally announced they ...

ENGIE Storage has announced it will supply and operate a 19 MW/38 MWh portfolio of six energy storage sites that will contribute to the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target Program and participate in ISO-New England wholesale markets.  The combined solar and storage portfolio, developed and operate...

The Michigan utility issued 127 rebates in the first two months of its three-year, $10 million pilot program. Consumers Energy says it’s happy with the launch of its electric vehicle charging station program and open to expanding the three-year, $10 million pilot. In the first two months of the pr...

Image: Global cumulative energy storage installations (Credit: BNEF) According to the latest forecast by BloombergNEF (BNEF), energy storage installations (not including pumped hydropower) around the world will multiply exponentially, from 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040. T...