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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

September 21, 2026

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

Sep 20

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

Sep 18

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

Sep 17

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

Sep 16

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

Sep 15

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

Sep 14
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