Utility company CenterPoint has been under scrutiny in Houston for the past week as customers remain without power after Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast last Monday. But new reporting from E&E News by Politico reveals that the Biden administration rejected a request from CenterPoint last year for $100 million to strengthen its electric poles
State Sen. Barry Usher, R-Billings, made some great points in his recent editorial, as he pointed out that Montana isn’t ready for electric vehicles. Sen. Usher is correct that Montana’s electricity system has fallen behind, leaving us unprepared for modern technologies. Usher noted that Montana’s power grid is strained. I suppose one solution would be
Located in state capital Phoenix, the 4-hour duration BESS asset is planned to go into commercial operation in April 2026 and connect to the utility’s grid. APS serves around 1.4 million customers in 11 out of Arizona’s 15 counties. The tolling agreement means that APS will have the right to charge and dispatch energy stored
A man looks at a Tesla Cybertruck parked near the SpaceX Starship as it stands on the launch pad … [+] ahead of its third flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas on March 12, 2024. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images As
Type of deals of oil & gas corporate peers Q2 2024 ZHIPU AI China-based AI-powered knowledge graph platform developer Zhipu AI raised approximately $400m in May 2024 from venture funding from Prosperity7 Ventures, one of Saudi Aramco’s venturing units. The transaction reportedly put the company’s pre-money valuation at $2.6bn. The funding will help the company
Yokota Air Base’s location in Japan gives the U.S. Air Force a strategic operational advantage of rapid response within the Indo-Pacific region—but it’s also a location fraught with weather events that threaten the installation’s power grid. With tsunamis, typhoons, and earthquakes comes the risk of losing primary power, leaving critical infrastructures out of operation and
In this interview, Atlas’ head of execution Alex Monzo discussed its entry into energy storage in Chile, the types of projects it is deploying, the challenges it faces, and his views on the BESS supply landscape today. Atlas is targeting 1.5-2GW of BESS deployments in Chile. Entry into storage and the two types of BESS
Naked Energy, a Crawley, UK-based solar heat and power startup, raised £17M in Series B first closed. The round was led by E.ON Energy Infrastructure Solutions (E.ON EIS), supported by co-investment from existing investor Barclays through Sustainable Impact Capital. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts. Led by
Enphase Energy has developed an electric vehicle (EV) charger for commercial fleets. The CS-100 provides up to 19.2 kW of continuous power output and allows fleet operators to set up charging schedules using the Enphase proprietary COSMOS interface. July 16, 2024 Anne Fischer From pv magazine USA Enphase Energy has announced the launch of an
SALT LAKE CITY — Power companies are not immune from the pressures of inflation and for us, that means we must pay more to keep our homes livable in these sweltering summer days. And those rising energy costs also trickle down onto us in other ways, i.e. an uptick in the cost of groceries as