Energy storage
Grid energy storage surged in 2021, as we predicted
Your humble correspondent presaged 5 market trends, and they all came to pass.
By Julian Spector .
Batteries
Batteries
A Massachusetts town uses batteries to help its grid — and its schools
Batteries can serve double-duty, shoring up the grid and providing backup to buildings when the power goes out. This project shows how.
By Jeff St. John .
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Fun stuff
The top 10 Canary Media stories of 2021
Check out our most popular pieces of the year. It turns out that people love unexpected good news about clean energy breakthroughs.By Julian Spector .
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Energy storage
Big batteries are booming in California, but the outlook for small-scale storage just got more uncertain
A new plan for solar net metering could slow adoption of home batteries — just when the state needs them most.By Elizabeth McCarthy .
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Policy & regulation
California net-metering proposal would decimate rooftop solar market, industry says
The solar industry is “shocked” by plan to impose new fees for rooftop systems and slash payments for solar fed to the grid. Will the CPUC change course?By Jeff St. John .
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Long-duration energy storage
Energy Dome is the rare long-duration storage firm that's moving fast
The Italian firm landed a deal for a 100MWh plant just two years after launch.By Julian Spector .
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Batteries
What's better than a big battery? How about a big battery you can move around
Power Edison is putting megawatt-scale batteries on truck trailers and barges to bring more flexibility to a costly yet valuable energy-storage resource.By Jeff St. John .
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Electric vehicles
Prototype of electric moped with 90-second charge time set to hit the streets in 2022
The secret sauce is a novel lithium-carbon battery chemistry.By Jason Deign .
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Energy storage
Energy storage is booming — and flexing its political muscle
The folks storing clean power are flush with cash and winning in Washington.By Julian Spector .
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Policy & regulation
Jigar Shah's big idea for getting rooftop solar and smart appliances to low-income Americans
How the DOE could marshal its loan guarantees to decarbonize the grid and boost energy equity in one fell swoop.By Jeff St. John .
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Grid edge
Generac acquires smart thermostat maker ecobee
Ecobee broke with Amazon over customer privacy. Now it's found a home in Generac’s growing clean home energy ecosystem.By Jeff St. John .
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