Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (05/27/26 Edition)
Read this week's developments in distributed energy worth the attention or planners and commercial real estate.

Read this week's developments in distributed energy worth the attention or planners and commercial real estate.

Q1 2026 EV market trends: new EV sales down 28% while used EV sales rose 12%. What this pivot means for utilization, connector mix (NACS/CCS), Section 30C timing, and underwriting for multifamily, workplace, and DCFC sites..

This week: Section 30C EV-charger deadline, EIA shift to commercial demand, transformer prices +77%, BESS at $117/kWh, data-center BYOP, CRE energy bills +15–40%.

Power access impacts, FERC June action, NEC 2026, 30C/179D sunsets, & truck corridors.

Latest on Microsoft's AI capacity gap, Duke Energy’s $103B plan, and Fermi America’s stock fall.

The pattern across this week's news is the same: power access, grid reliability, and project approval are increasingly determinative of where capital flows and what entitlements communities can defend.