EnergyX and Wildcat Plan a More Than $230 Million LFP Cathode Plant in Texas, Co-Located With Lithium Supply
EnergyX-Wildcat more than $230M domestic LFP cathode plant in Texas and the cathode gap in the US battery supply chain
Washington's Building Penalties Arrive in 2027. The Metric Does Not Count Batteries
DC BEPS first compliance cycle closes Dec 31 2026 with penalties up to $10 per square foot from 2027, and why an energy-intensity metric makes commercial storage count only indirectly
Battery Storage Financing Turns on Fire Data and Contract Terms, Not Cell Price
BESS financeability shifting from hardware cost to insurer fire-data requirements and lender contract scrutiny, hardest for commercial behind-the-meter storage
Heating Electrification Will Add 6.8 Gigawatts of Commercial Load by 2035, and Northeast Grids Face the Sharpest Percentage Increase
Enverus forecasts 24 GW of US electrification load by 2035, with the steepest percentage growth in Northeast grids where building-heating electrification pushes commercial peaks toward winter and lifts demand charges
A Polish Grid Attack Exposes an Insurance Gap for Networked Battery Storage
A December 2025 cyberattack on Poland's grid exposed an insurance coverage gap for networked battery storage as procurement begins screening suppliers on cybersecurity provenance
PJM Utilities Spent $6 Billion on Smart Meters. Customers Still Cannot Reach the Interval Data
FERC complaint over PJM smart-meter interval data access and its bearing on commercial demand-charge management and behind-the-meter storage
Google Funds a 100-Megawatt Voltus Virtual Power Plant in PJM to Cover Data Center Demand
Google's Bring Your Own Capacity deal with Voltus makes the speculative top layer of behind-the-meter battery economics bankable by turning grid-services revenue into a PPA-shaped contract funded by load rather than ratepayers