At the request of the California Energy Commission and utilities, Sunrun and Tesla discharged home batteries to the grid during multi-hour evening peak periods. The battery dispatches supported the ...

Your power bill is too high. Electricity prices have risen by as much as 40% since 2020, far outpacing overall inflation. And after decades of nearly flat growth in energy consumption, data centers ...

After California officials chose not to provide more funding, the state's leading virtual power plant program is in question, putting at risk payments that have gone to households helping the grid ...

And there was no single plant behind it — no smokestack and no dedicated site of its own.

Sonam Velani hooks up a battery from Every Electric to power an air conditioner as part of a pilot program with the city's energy company Con Edison to reduce pressure on the electrical grid Monday, ...

Nancy Lipps and her son John, in Dinuba, are one of more than 200,000 households in California signed up for a statewide program that pays them to help the grid when it's very hot outside and ...

NEW YORK — When a heat wave hits, millions of air conditioners switch on at once, straining the electric grid and driving up the risk of outages — and residents’ power bills. To ease that strain, ...