Energy Storage

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    AI infrastructure: The utility’s role in scalable, reliable data center power

    Getting reliable and sustainable power at scale is one of the biggest challenges facing data centers.

    July 28, 2025
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    Opinion

    Coal- and gas-fired power plants have a new best friend: data centers

    The data center boom is here to stay, but so is climate change. Load growth is not an excuse to reverse progress and renew dependence on fossil fuel energy.

    By Abbe Ramanan • July 25, 2025
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    Trendline

    Energy Storage

    The proliferation of energy storage in everything from utility-scale batteries to electric vehicles is a driving force in the transition to a cleaner, more distributed power system. This trendline includes the best Utility Dive reporting on this dynamic sector.

    By Utility Dive staff
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    GM, Redwood Materials sign deal to deploy energy-storage batteries

    The partnership will create low-cost batteries to power AI data centers and other applications.

    By Eric Walz • July 25, 2025
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    FERC orders changes to PJM’s grid interconnection process, plus 3 other open meeting takeaways

    Required changes include cost allocation for network upgrades, consideration of grid-enhancing technologies and energy storage modeling.

    By • July 25, 2025
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    Opinion

    The IRA rollback is a disaster for energy. Industry leaders must move fast.

    Project changes will require meticulous due diligence involving legal and finance teams. Those who can show robust tracking and tracing protocols may be among the biggest winners.

    By Anna Shpitsberg • July 23, 2025
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    Electric utilities will invest more than $1.1T by 2030 to meet demand growth: EEI

    The electric utility sector’s capital expenditures “are higher than any other sector in the U.S. economy,” Edison Electric Institute President and CEO Drew Maloney said.

    By • July 23, 2025
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    Booming solar and storage are propping up Puerto Rico’s grid this summer

    What started as a modest pilot program is now the first virtual power plant of its kind in the region, advocates say.

    By • July 22, 2025
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    Opinion

    The key to renewable energy development is building local trust

    After a gigawatt’s worth of development, Arun Muthukrishnan now approaches each project not just as a technical or financial challenge, but as a deeply human one.

    By Arun Muthukrishnan • July 18, 2025
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    Opinion

    So you’re thinking about buying an electric school bus

    From working with a utility to choosing a charger, five insights to improve the decision-making.

    By Linda Margison, Ryan Henderson and Linda Stevens • July 16, 2025
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    Georgia Power’s new IRP keeps coal plants online to serve data centers

    The integrated resource plan approved by regulators on Tuesday also calls for up to 4,000 MW of renewable resources by 2035 and more than 1,500 MW of storage.

    By • July 16, 2025
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    Lydian Energy lands $233M in financing for 550 MW/1.1 GWh of Texas storage

    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said it expects to have nearly 14,000 MW of storage on its system by September, up from about 10,000 MW last year.

    By • July 15, 2025
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    Ameren plans Missouri gas plant with 400-MW battery storage

    The Big Hollow Energy Center will be Ameren’s first large-scale battery facility, but the utility’s long-range plans call for installing 1.8 GW of energy storage by 2042.

    By • July 8, 2025
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    Opinion

    How retail energy suppliers can navigate the new federal energy policies

    Key strategies include buying renewable energy certificates now, leveraging data and predictive analytics and growing market share.

    By Nainish Gupta • July 8, 2025
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    Base Power, GVEC partner on 2-MW Texas VPP

    Batteries will provide residential customers with power if there is a blackout while allowing GVEC to offer ancillary services and manage transmission costs.

    By • July 2, 2025
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    Opinion

    Whatever happens with the IRA, energy storage is here to stay

    The electric grid needs flexibility, speed and stability. Energy storage offers all three.

    By Arun Muthukrishnan • July 1, 2025
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    New Jersey seeks 1 GW of transmission-scale storage

    The Garden State’s solicitation is part of a plan to have 2 GW of storage by 2030.

    By Brian Martucci • July 1, 2025
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    Federal agencies, including FERC and DOE, revoke environmental review rules

    The agencies eliminated all references to consider climate change, environmental justice and other key environmental issues in their permit reviews, Earthjustice said.

    By • July 1, 2025
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    Utilities, energy developers back Senate’s more lenient tax credit timeline

    A powerful coalition of trade associations and energy groups thanked senators for rolling back some of the House version’s deepest cuts, but the two chambers will need to agree on a final bill.

    By Brian Martucci • June 25, 2025
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    Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis

    The new law pairs mandatory curtailment with a voluntary demand response procurement program.

    By Brian Martucci • June 25, 2025
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    Prevalon brings 80-MW battery storage online for Idaho Power

    Idaho Power could add an additional 705 MW of storage in the next four years, per its draft integrated resource plan. 

    By • June 25, 2025
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    Pentagon-backed battery innovation facility opens at UT Dallas

    “We want to have that supply chain resilience and independence from the Chinese supply chain,” said Kyeongjae Cho, the facility’s director.

    By • June 24, 2025
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    Data centers could bring alternative battery types into the mainstream, developers say

    Artificial intelligence data centers have unique energy needs, and industry insiders say that’s driving a renewed interest in energy storage technologies that have not caught on with utilities.

    By Emma Penrod • Updated June 27, 2025
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    Senate Finance Committee reduces House IRA cuts, but few changes for wind and solar

    Wind and solar projects must begin construction by the end of 2025 to qualify for the Inflation Reduction Act’s full 45Y and 48E tax credits in the Finance Committee's proposed budget bill.

    By • June 18, 2025
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    ‘Shoulder season’ reliability a growing concern in ERCOT, other ISOs: Aurora Energy Research

    Batteries, gas peaker plants and data centers will provide critical system flexibility by 2030 as load growth, aging infrastructure and weather volatility increase planning uncertainty, Aurora said.

    By Brian Martucci • June 17, 2025
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    Opinion

    Senate: Don’t fumble the energy future

    Ending clean energy tax deductions would limit power supply and raise electricity prices. It would be like sending a great football team to compete in the Super Bowl without cleats.

    By Dean Granoff • June 17, 2025