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PG&E warned approximately 70,000 customers across 29 counties could face precautionary electricity shutoffs beginning Wednesday evening, October 14, due to raised wildfire risk from offshore winds and dry conditions.
BMW Group's global battery electric vehicle sales grew 7.2% in Q3 2026, driven by a 37.5% surge in Europe where one in three deliveries was fully electric, even as the group's total vehicle sales fell 6.3%.
Four-hour battery storage is now cheaper than new gas peaking plants in all modeled global markets, with U.S. costs 65-75% lower.
U.S. households face sharply different heating bills this winter, with natural gas and propane users saving while heating oil and electricity costs rise, driven by opposing fuel price trends and regional temperature forecasts.
Amazon and Constellation Energy have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement to expand Maryland's Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant.
Electricity consumption by light-duty electric vehicles in the U.S. Grew by 8% in the first half of 2026, a marked slowdown from prior half-year growth rates of 13-24%, following a 19% drop in new EV sales after federal tax credits expired.
Geely Holding Group is acquiring a 30% stake in NIO Power, valuing the battery-swapping arm at RMB 16 billion.
Poland's state nuclear company and a Bechtel-Westinghouse consortium have agreed on the main commercial terms for the country's first nuclear power plant.
Startup Rune is deploying modular data centers that plug directly into utility-scale solar and wind farms.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger released a new policy framework on September 18, 2026, aimed at making electricity for data centers cleaner.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a 20-year-old carbon cap-and-trade program for Northeastern power plants, is under debate.
Alabama Power reported $860 million in profit for the first half of 2026, a 14% increase.
Natural gas prices at the Algonquin Citygate hub in New England have been trading at a significant discount to the Henry Hub benchmark, driven by abundant supply.
Google is funding a new PG&E virtual power plant pilot in San Jose, aiming to unlock grid capacity and lower electricity rates.
Georgia Power disconnected over 100,000 residential customers between August and November 2025.
The U.S. Department of Energy has closed a loan of up to $1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to restart Iowa's only nuclear power plant.
A new analysis argues that conventional experience curves, which forecast hydrogen cost declines based on cumulative installed capacity, are misleading.
Swedish nuclear firm Studsvik has selected GE Vernova Hitachi and Samsung C&T to develop a four-unit, 1.2-GW small modular reactor project in Sweden.
The Obama Presidential Center will power its campus with community solar, acting as an anchor tenant for projects developed by Reactivate.
High crack spreads and crude oil prices are contributing to higher gasoline prices at the pump.
President Trump’s executive order targeting foreign-made equipment in the bulk power system has left industry analysts with three key questions.
Pacific Gas and Electric, Google, and Rewiring America have launched SHARE, a first-of-its-kind virtual power plant in California's Bay Area.
A Texas data center developer and a technology firm specializing in advanced systems are creating a 90-day blueprint for integrating future advanced computers into large-scale infrastructure.
The AI boom is accelerating U.S. battery storage deployment, with 10.3 GW of new capacity added in early 2026.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has restarted Unit 6 at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, a key step in Japan's plan to have nuclear power supply 20% of its electricity by 2030.
New Jersey utility PSE&G unveiled GridSmart, a program offering a $5,000 incentive and 0% on-bill financing for customer-owned home batteries.
A two-week power outage in Gary, Indiana, following August storms has highlighted what the city lost when the federal Solar for All program was canceled.