A Northern Virginia outage, a 6 GW load surge, $75 billion in clean energy investment, and home batteries outselling home solar. This week's electrification roundup for property owners.
The federal Section 30C EV charger credit, worth up to $100,000 per location, expired June 30, 2026. The new math for property owners: state and utility programs, the ROI, and still-rising demand.
A new Massachusetts program pays EV owners to send power back to the grid during peak hours, building on a network that pays homeowners $1,000 to $4,000 a year. Why fleets and buildings can now earn.
Amazon now runs 30,000 electric vans and 50,000 chargers and uses AI on the data to move past break-even total cost of ownership. With 70% of new depot installs using load management, fleet charging has become a software and systems decision.
Charging 60 trucks at a depot without load management raised peak demand from 1 MW to 4 MW, per RMI. Why fleet charging is a building electrical and demand-charge decision, not a vehicle decision, for warehouse and logistics owners.
Grid reliability, utility rate hikes, data center demand, and evolving energy policy. Explore the biggest developments shaping commercial real estate, electrification, and energy resilience this week.