Phoebe Skok
It’s easy to announce a battery gigafactory. It’s much harder to build one
America’s battery factory buildout hinges on experienced operating teams.
Making sense of CAISO’s bid cost recovery mechanism and what it means for batteries
As California batteries increasingly depend on bid cost recovery to smooth out market deviations, the make-whole mechanism is being reshaped to balance flexibility and fairness.
Performance contracts could be public solar’s silent financiers
Energy savings performance contracts are helping schools, hospitals, and municipalities adopt solar without upfront costs.
Solar is reshaping California’s Central Valley. What happens to the rural farming communities next door?
A democratically organized nonprofit is giving a seat at the clean energy table to 36 communities in Western Fresno County.
Polymer batteries could help protect the energy storage industry from copper tariffs
As tariffs push copper costs higher, one startup thinks additive manufacturing could free batteries from the metal altogether.
Ampion launches new “synthetic” community solar program
The software company’s new cross-state community solar model helps developers unlock IRA tax credits while bringing bill savings to low-income households.
Batteries could be the catalyst for the next phase of the AI boom
On-site storage paired with hydrogen and solar could unlock reliability and scalability for next-gen data centers.
How batteries can change a data center application from a “no” to a “yes”
Energy storage can be the final push a utility needs to accept a new large load application.
Solar-powered schools act as living laboratories for learning
Linking classroom curriculums to onsite generation provides a hands-on introduction to clean energy.
Turbulent times for U.S. energy storage
The OBBBA kills many of the provisions in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act that were most impactful for the energy storage industry, and while no one is fully sure what comes next, many are bracing for turbulence, as Phoebe Skok reports.
