FERC Fines Terra-Gen $5 Million in First Battery Storage Market Manipulation Case
FERC's first battery-specific market manipulation enforcement action against Terra-Gen establishes regulatory precedent for wholesale storage participation
California Advances SB 913 to Open Grid Market to Batteries
SB 913 passes California Senate Energy Committee, advancing behind-the-meter battery access to resource adequacy markets
8.8 Gigawatt-Hours
Tesla Q1 2026 energy storage deployments fall 38% sequentially and 15% year-over-year, the first decline in the segment's history, with no explanation from management
One Hundred Megawatts Per Month
SB 913 would let California's 100+ MW/month of customer batteries compete for resource adequacy payments currently reserved for gas peakers
$600 Per Kilowatt Into a Trap
PacifiCorp becomes first utility to cut storage from IRP after OBBBA, pivoting toward gas at the exact moment gas turbine costs hit 195% above 2019 levels
Forty-Two Percent for Electricity, Twenty-Nine for Everything Else
Three institutions independently document the first structural decoupling of US electricity prices from inflation, driven by non-generation infrastructure costs
Megawatt for Megawatt
Michigan creates first megawatt-for-megawatt storage matching requirement for data center grid access, establishing a regulatory template as PJM explores parallel conditional load mechanisms