Mgrid.org https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html NoMIS Power Shows a 6.5 kV SiC MOSFET Blocking Over 8 kV, With Production Set for Q4 2026 i-charging’s 1.5 MW i-light Clears ETL Certification for the US and Canada FTA’s $610 Million Bus Round Ranks Low-Emission Projects Above Zero-Emission GM-Funded Study Puts Vehicle-to-Grid at $680 to $2,750 per EV a Year DOE Closes $489.4M Loan for 220 MW of Puerto Rico Battery Storage Fluence Reports a Record $6.4 Billion Backlog and Cuts Its 2026 Revenue Guidance by $400 Million Eolian Starts Building the Largest PJM Battery at 200 MW and 1.06 GWh in Licking County, Ohio Alfred University and Ranial Systems Take $65,000 to Build a Single-Chip Microgrid Controller Antora Closes $550 Million Series C for US Thermal Battery Storage Base Power Launches 39.2 kWh Base Core Battery, Closes $1 Billion Series D Hydrostor Signs 60 MW Offtake for 500 MW Willow Rock Compressed Air Storage in Kern County DC Circuit Upholds FERC Order 2023, Keeping $2,500-a-Day Late Fees for Interconnection Studies Sunrun Will Supply Voltus With Home Battery Capacity for AI Data Centers in PJM and MISO PJM Accepts 715 Projects and 201.5 GW Into the First Cycle of Its Reformed Queue NC State, NYPA and EPRI Run a 1 MW Solid-State Transformer at 98% Efficiency on a Live Feeder Appalachian Power Seeks 800 MW of Storage, More Than Its Entire 2040 State Mandate Pennsylvania Executive Order 2026-05 Makes Data Centers Pay Full Grid Costs and Win Local Approval First SB Energy Will Build 10 GW of New Generation for OpenAI’s 8 GW-IT Ohio Campus California Advances Two Bills to Value Behind-the-Meter Batteries as Grid Capacity A Tenth of California’s 2036 EV Fleet Would Match 9 GW of 12-Hour Storage, New Report Finds Northwest Power Council Draft Plan Seeks 11 GW of New Generation and 5.2 GW of Storage by 2032 PJM Asks FERC to Curtail New 50 MW Data Centers Before Other Emergency Load Cuts Con Edison Raises Its Substation Plan to 28 by 2035 Inside a $37.2 Billion Distribution Buildout Massachusetts Seeks 1,000 MW of Storage and Opens Its First Distribution-Connected Carve-Out DOE Keeps 397-MW Wagner Oil Unit Running Past Permit Limits Through November 17 BloombergNEF Puts the Texas Data Center Pause at 49.8 GW and Up to $15 Billion Mesa Power Solutions Opens a $70 Million Evansville Plant and Puts Its Gas Generator Output at 2 GW a Year GE Vernova Gas Turbine Backlog Reaches 100 GW, Driven by Data Trump Sets 15% Tariff and a 38-Cent Price Floor on Imported Solar Panels AES-Led Grid 2.0 Protocol Would Give New Loads Firm Service Plus Three Tiers of Flexible Service New Jersey Awards 16 Dual-Use Solar Projects Totaling 52.06 MW in Its First Agrivoltaics Solicitation Heron Power Picks Morgan Hill for a 40 GW Power Conversion Plant Backed by a $26.4 Million California Credit CAISO Answers FERC With Two Flexible Interconnection Services and a 50 MW Large-Load Definition CPUC Denies PG&E’s Bid to Keep $2.6 Billion of Fire and Loan Debt Out of Its Capital Structure CAISO Would Let Battery Aggregators Export Down to Zero Net Load, a Change Advocates Size at 2 GW CPUC Pushes Its Vote on PG&E’s 250 MW Google Data Center Deal in San Jose to September 3 Sonoma State Powers Up 4.1 MW of Solar Carports and a 1.55 MWh Battery on a 30-Year PPA Duke Energy Starts Paying South Carolina Businesses $120/kW to Put Their Batteries on Call Form Energy Raises $750 Million to Double Its Weirton Iron-Air Battery Plant GE Vernova Puts $138 Million Into a Pennsylvania Switchgear Plant to Cut Grid Equipment Lead Times Xcel Asks Colorado’s Supreme Court to Condemn 550 Feet of Land Blocking 1,053 MW of Wind Rock Canyon Pays $701 an Acre for New Mexico Geothermal as BLM Heads Into an Aug. 18 Utah Sale DOE Cancels the Last Three National Interest Transmission Corridors, Returning Siting to the States Arevon’s 300 MW / 1,200 MWh Nighthawk Battery Starts Up in Poway on a PG&E Contract Signed in 2021 SpaceX Will Power Its $16.8 Billion Texas Chip Fab With On-Site Gas and Batteries, Not the Grid i-charging Wins ETL Certification for Its 1.5 MW i-light Truck Charger and Opens North America Energy Vault Signs a 1.25 GW Off-Grid Power Deal for a Texas Hyperscaler AI Data Center All Six Grid Operators Ask FERC for 90 More Days on Large-Load Rules, Pushing Filings to November 16 Navitas Licenses High-Voltage SiC Technology to Magnachip While Q2 Revenue Sits 27% Below Last Year Pilot, GM and EVgo Pass 300 Fast Charging Sites With About 1,300 350 kW Stalls in 40 States