Mgrid.org https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Newsom Signs California’s 1,200 W Plug-In Solar Law as the Tenth State, But the Utility Exemption Expires in 2030 Infineon Puts a 500 kHz Control Loop in a Data Center Power MCU, But Discloses No Price or Sampling Date FERC Keeps DER Aggregators in PJM’s 6,831 MW Backstop, Then Upholds the 15-Year Lock-In Few Can Meet USDA Rewrites REAP to Pay Only After 12 Months of Output, and Bars Ground-Mount Solar on Cropland Hawaii Starts Two HDOT Microgrids Set to Generate 2.2 MWh a Day, With No PV Capacity or Cost Disclosed PG&E Backs Three Dam-Free Pumped-Storage Microgrids in Lake County, But the Grant Only Funds Feasibility Work California Opens Resource Adequacy to Aggregated Batteries by 2028, and Vetoes Community Solar the Same Day Illinois Storage Auction Buys 520 MW Downstate and Only 80 MW in ComEd Territory, 438 MW Short of Target Crusoe and Aalo Target a 50 MWe Reactor Pod for AI Data Centers, With a 10 MWe Demo at Idaho in 2027 Base Power Launches 39.2 kWh Base Core Battery, Closes $1 Billion Series D Antora Closes $550 Million Series C for US Thermal Battery Storage Commerce Caps New Solar Importers at 12 kg of Polysilicon a Week Until December 4 Fervo’s First Power at Cape Station Is One 33 MW Block of a 100 MW Phase I, Not a Plant Going Live NineDot’s Bronx Battery Is 19.6 MW and 78.3 MWh in NYSERDA’s Records, and It Does Not Run Until Summer 2027 Kit Carson Is Picked for $38.1 Million to Reconductor 25.5 Miles of 69 kV Line Cleveland Puts Solar on Two Closed Landfills and the Larger Rating Is Still 5 to 7 MW EIA’s 12-Month Number Is 76.7 GW. The 83 GW Headline Adds 6 GW EIA Never Forecast Oregon Ties PGE’s Dividends to Credit Ratings, and PGE Says It Will Not Reorganize ERCOT Kept 362 Large Loads at 191.8 GW and Excluded 373 More Toyo Signs $240 Million in Module Deals and Withholds Its Grade FERC Suspends PJM’s Backstop Procurement Five Months and PJM Pulls Its September 30 Auction Senate Permitting Deal Makes Data Centers Pay Full Transmission Costs, Then Waits for the Midterms Competitive Bidding on ERCOT’s 765-kV Plan Could Cut Texas Transmission Costs 7 to 22 Billion Dollars NRC Clears TVA to Build a 300 MW BWRX-300 at Clinch River, With No Cost, Start Date or Partner Deal Antora Lands a 5.8 GWh Thermal Battery Deal in Kansas, But Discloses No Power Rating Nobody Will Say How Big xAI’s Memphis Battery Is: 2.8 GWh Counted, 3.3 GWh Claimed, 2,000 MW Described Oracle Sends a Force Majeure Notice on Its 2.45 GW New Mexico Campus as the Gas Pipeline Slips to 2027 New Jersey Fines a Vineland Data Center $1.07 Million for 62 Gas Generators It Never Permitted New York Gives Utilities 60 Days to Inventory Every AI System in Their Operations Berkeley Lab Puts 1-5 MW Solar at a 45-Month Median, While New York’s Mid-Size Queue Fell to 7.1 Months Solar Module Prices Fell 16 Percent and Commercial System Prices Still Rose 5.6 Percent to $1.77 a Watt Monroeville Floats 9,222 Solar Modules on 12 Acres of Its Drinking Water Reservoir Con Edison’s Two-Part Test Raised Upgrade Costs 14-Fold on 34 Battery Projects Worth 161 MW Heinrich’s 30 Percent Transmission Credit Stops at a 500 MW Floor, but Storage Tie Lines Enter at 230 kV NYPA Wants $50 Million of Federal Money for a $270 Million Marcy STATCOM, But Construction Waits Until 2029 Judge Vacates EPA’s Solar for All Termination, Reinstating $7 Billion for 900,000 Households FERC Lets PJM Keep Oklo’s 750 MW Virginia Project Out of the Current Study Cycle New York Approves the $3.26 Billion Propel NY Line, 90 Miles of It Underground Power Electronics Starts a Houston Inverter Campus Sized for 40 GW a Year Imported Solar Module Quotes Reach the 38-Cent Floor Two Months Before It Binds LA Metro Buys 220 Battery-Electric Buses for $337.7 Million and Options 1,600 More DOE Picks 31 Reconductoring Projects in 26 States and Puts $1.9 Billion Against 23 GW of Capacity US Storage Hit a Record 18.9 GWh in Q2 as Installed Power Capacity Fell 7 Percent Entergy Puts Google’s Arkansas Power Bill at $2.1 Billion Over 20 Years A Georgia Power Transformer Burned for Five Hours in Norcross and Cut Power to 13,000 NYSERDA Contracts 950 MW of Storage From 46 Bids in New York’s First Bulk Solicitation Ameren Missouri Files for 10.6 GW of New Gas, Inverting Last Year’s 60 Percent Clean Target for 2045 Nvidia Qualifies Three BESS Suppliers for AI Factories and Grades Them on Ride-Through and Black Start FERC Sends a $20 Billion Data Center Fight Back to Court Over a $1 Letter of Credit Maryland Awards 440 MW of an 800 MW Storage Target, Then Denies the Upsize Offered to Close the Gap