California's Largest Convention Hotel Signed 20 Years of Gas Cogeneration for 94 Percent of Its Load, With a Claimed 40 Percent Tax Credit
Unison Energy's 3 MW gas cogeneration microgrid at Chula Vista's Gaylord Pacific, sold on a 20-year energy-as-a-service contract with a claimed 40 percent tax credit, alongside Amazon's genset commitment to Generac and the state storage programs that have not yet opened
Moss Landing's Second Fire Started in Damaged Batteries Awaiting Removal, a Year Into an EPA-Supervised Cleanup
Moss Landing's second fire started in damaged modules awaiting removal, a year into an EPA-supervised cleanup, raising the question of what the storage codes say about the interim period between incident and disposal
New York Ties East Hampton Well Contamination to a 2023 Battery Fire, Putting Suppression Runoff Into the Permitting File
New York DEC has linked elevated PFOS and other fluorinated compounds near an East Hampton wellfield to the 2023 battery site fire, putting suppression discharge and containment into a plan review conversation the battery test standards do not address
Lineage Sues Altus Power and a CBRE Contractor for More Than $1 Billion Over Rooftop Solar Fire
Lineage's $1B suit against Altus Power and a CBRE maintenance subsidiary over a rooftop solar fire tests where liability sits when a third party owns the energy asset attached to someone else's building
Construction Input Prices Rose 8.9 Percent While GSA Reports Approval Delays Adding Up to 436 Percent to Repair Costs
August construction input inflation and GSA's disclosed approval-delay cost escalation, and what both do to fixed-price commercial building energy proposals
The 2027 Energy Code Adds Storage Provisions on a Five-Year Clock While an Insurer Sets a 100-Foot Setback Today
The 2027 IECC brings storage and demand-response provisions into the commercial model code baseline on a multi-year adoption clock, while an insurer's 100-foot setback and Maryland's for-profit grant exclusion set nearer-term limits on commercial building batteries
CMS Opens a Federal Path for Battery-Backed Hospital Power, While Codes and Insurers Hold the Line
A CMS waiver opens a federal path for battery-backed hospital emergency power, while model codes, fire permitting and insurers hold building-sited storage to a separate standard