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Illinois’ 3-Gigawatt Storage Push Is a Signal: Batteries Are Becoming a Standard Building Upgrade
Illinois’ 3-gigawatt target is evidence that the market is organizing around storage — and that the buildings that can manage peaks and ride through volatility will have an easier time delivering elec... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration ,battery
January 14, 2026•6 min read
Power Bills Are Becoming the New Rent Increase. Here’s How Owners Can Fight Back.
Electricity costs are rising in different ways in different places nationwide. Owners need to reduce the parts of the bill they can control. ...more
Energy & Solar Integration
January 14, 2026•7 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (1/14/26 Edition)
If you only skimmed headlines this week, you probably saw the usual AI-grid anxiety and EV-market hot takes. The useful signal for owners, developers and planners is more practical. ...more
EV News & Trends ,Energy & Solar Integration &Charging Tech & Innovation
January 14, 2026•4 min read
Power Is the New Land: Google’s $4.75 Billion Intersect Deal Redraws the Map for “AI-Ready” Real Estate
Alphabet’s agreement to acquire Intersect Power is an infrastructure play — one that underscores how quickly electricity has become the gating factor for new development, especially anything tied to d... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration
January 07, 2026•8 min read
VPP Goes Municipal: New Orleans’ $30 Million Neighborhood Battery Plan Is a Playbook for Multifamily and Master Plans
In December, the New Orleans City Council approved a $30 million, three-year “Neighborhood Power Plan” to pay for solar-tied batteries and coordinate those systems as a single, dispatchable resource —... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration ,battery
January 05, 2026•6 min read
Making Solar “Policy-Proof”: Why CRE Can’t Wait for Perfect Incentives
As subsidies wobble and rates stay volatile, the smartest landlords are designing rooftop solar that pencils out even if the politics change. ...more
Energy & Solar Integration
December 29, 2025•5 min read
Sunrun and NRG Want Texas Homes to Act Like a Power Plant. CRE Should Pay Attention.
Sunrun and NRG Energy are building a Texas-based virtual power plant (VPP) that will aggregate home batteries and dispatch them into the ERCOT market during peak demand. If you own or develop master-p... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration
December 29, 2025•7 min read
Factorial’s Solid-State SPAC: A Boston-Area Battery Bet That Could Reshape EV Range — and Eventually Building Power
Boston area-based solid-state battery developer Factorial Energy is taking a swing at the public markets — not with a traditional IPO, but by merging with a SPAC. The deal is the latest signal that in... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration
December 23, 2025•6 min read
New York Kills the “100-Foot Rule.” Real Estate Just Lost a Quiet Gas Discount.
New York quietly rewrote a line of development math that has shaped residential construction for decades: it is ending the so-called “100-foot rule,” a policy that effectively spread the cost of many ... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration
December 23, 2025•6 min read
Texas’ Grid Queue Hits 226 GW: Why AI’s Thirst is Real Estate’s New “Actionable Intelligence”
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) dropped a number this month that reads less like a utility forecast and more like a fever dream: 226 gigawatts (GW). ...more
Energy & Solar Integration
December 22, 2025•5 min read
Your BMS Isn’t Enough: Why AI Is Becoming the Building Operating System
Energy management stands out as one of the highest-ROI use cases, but it’s also where the gap between promise and practice is most obvious. Treat AI not as a gadget, but as the operating system for yo... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration
December 03, 2025•6 min read
From EV Chargers to Whole Meter: Why ChargedUp! Is Expanding to Electrification
ChargedUp! is expanding from EV charging to full electrification as rising power demand, grid constraints, and AI-driven loads make energy a business strategy. Integrated power, connectivity, and AI n... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration
October 28, 2025•5 min read
Why Your Electric Bill Keeps Rising — and What CREs and CPOs Can Do About It
If your electricity bill feels higher every quarter, you’re not imagining it: Demand for power is rising faster than we can build power plants and power lines. This article summarizes key factors affe... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration ,Home Charging &Sustainability & Green Living
October 08, 2025•4 min read
Who Takes Over When Your Charging Vendor Crashes?
The EV charging industry is still young enough that sudden collapses make headlines, raising a question every landlord, developer, and CPO should ask today. ...more
EV News & Trends ,Energy & Solar Integration Commercial Charging Apps & Charging Networks Sustainability & Green Living Charging Tech & Innovation &EV-Blog
September 30, 2025•4 min read
Vendors, It’s Time to Rethink How You Sell Amid the Current EV Charging Boom
By this point in the fall of 2025, the EV charging map tells a story of steady growth. Here’s the challenge: the market is loud, and the winners will be the companies implementing the clearest, most c... ...more
EV News & Trends ,Energy & Solar Integration Commercial Charging Sustainability & Green Living Charging Tech & Innovation &EV-Blog
September 30, 2025•4 min read
Powering the Future: Data Centers as Grid Allies
The rapid and relentless growth of digital infrastructure has placed a new kind of strain on the world's power grids. As more of our... ...more
EV News & Trends ,Energy & Solar Integration Sustainability & Green Living Charging Tech & Innovation &EV-Blog
September 23, 2025•5 min read
A Fluid Future: Shell's New Thermal Technology Promises a New Era of Ultra-Fast EV Charging
The single greatest hurdle to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles has long been the time it takes to charge them. While vehicle... ...more
EV News & Trends ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &EV-Blog
September 16, 2025•5 min read
The Hidden Cost of Electrification: Why Charger Reliability is the Unsung Challenge for EV Fleets
A recent LinkedIn post laid bare the frustration felt by many early EV adopters. It recounted a series of failed charging attempts... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration ,Commercial Charging Charging Tech & Innovation &EV-Blog
September 16, 2025•5 min read
The Hydrogen Renaissance: Why Cummins' New Engine is Forging a New Path in the Zero-Emissions Race
While the electric vehicle (EV) industry has largely focused its attention on a future powered by lithium-ion batteries, a quiet yet... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration ,Sustainability & Green Living
September 16, 2025•5 min read
Navigating a Crossroads: Canada's EV Mandate Pause and the Future of Electrification
In a significant policy reversal that has sent ripples through the North American automotive sector, the Canadian government has... ...more
Energy & Solar Integration ,Commercial Charging Sustainability & Green Living &EV-Blog
September 16, 2025•5 min read
Should you switch to an EV Fleet? Here is what you need to consider
NEED ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS POSED IN THIS STORY? Contact us at [email protected]. The question of whether to transition a commercial... ...more
EV News & Trends ,Energy & Solar Integration EV Basics &EV-Blog
September 10, 2025•6 min read
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