Utility Dive

The companies will begin installing Nest and Vivint smart thermostats in Texas homes next spring and eventually hope to supply capacity equivalent to the peak demand of 200,000 average homes.

Public Service Co. of New Mexico's decision is the latest win for CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market, which is expected to launch in 2026.

Building operators using Inflation Reduction Act tax incentives “will be talking with their senators and representatives to express the need to keep these in place,” a U.S. Green Building Council official said.

Regulatory structures are designed to prevent rapid buildouts — partly in response to previous power sector overbuilds — but “suddenly we need to go fast,” MISO’s Clair Moeller said.

Higher battery material tariffs and phased-down IRA tax credits could result in a 15% drop in U.S. storage deployment through 2035 in a “worst-case” scenario, BNEF analysts said.

Higher battery material tariffs and phased-down IRA tax credits could result in a 15% drop in U.S. storage deployment through 2035 in a “worst-case” scenario, BNEF analysts said.

Statewide legislative changes and greater incentives could boost buildings’ participation in demand response programs, according to energy policy experts.

“We've got to have something else to keep the lights on … and right now, the best option that we have for generation over the next several years looks like it's natural gas,” SPP’s Bruce Rew said.

As families make tough choices between paying the power bill or buying groceries, there are mandates and market manipulations keeping expensive coal online and consumers paying the price.

The road map aims for 200 GW of net new capacity from newly built reactors, restarts of plants retired for economic reasons and power uprates of existing reactors, the White House said Tuesday.