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The True Cost of Power: Oil Just Gave Back Its War Premium. Why Did the Cost of Powering a Building Rise Anyway?

The True Cost of Power: Oil Just Gave Back Its War Premium. Why Did the Cost of Powering a Building Rise Anyway?

Oil gave back its war premium this week while 50 percent tariffs raised construction costs and Canada put electricity exports on the table. The structural cost of power rose. ...more

EV Market Signals ,Policy and Market Rules &True Cost of Power

August 26, 202611 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (08/26/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (08/26/26 Edition)

This week's NYMHM tracks PJM's capacity shortfall, new state data center rules, distributed solar financing, and EV market signals across all eight ChargedUp! pillars. ...more

EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup

August 26, 202610 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (08/19/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (08/19/26 Edition)

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. ...more

EV Market Signals ,EV Charging in Real Places Data Center Demand and Innovation Solar, Storage and VPPs Local Governance and Federal Policy Grid Stress, Storms and Resilience Economics Policy and Market Rules Electrification Economics at the Property Level &Electrification Roundup

August 18, 202610 min read

The Last Federal Help for Building EV Charging Expired This Summer. Here Is the New Math.

The Last Federal Help for Building EV Charging Expired This Summer. Here Is the New Math.

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. ...more

EV Charging in Real Places ,Policy and Market Rules

August 11, 20264 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (08/12/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (08/12/26 Edition)

A federal grid deadline, record capacity prices, North Carolina's data center tax repeal, the expired EV charger credit, and the threefold state power gap. This week's electrification roundup. ...more

EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup

August 11, 20268 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (08/05/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (08/05/26 Edition)

Record utility rate requests, a federal order to fast-track data center connections, coal running longer, and $1 billion-plus clean energy deals. This week's electrification roundup for property owner... ...more

EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup

August 04, 20267 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/29/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/29/26 Edition)

PJM's emergency power auction, a $375 million clean-energy merger, battery costs at a record low, and vehicle-to-grid income for fleets. This week's electrification roundup for property owners. ...more

EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup

July 28, 20268 min read

Your Parked Electric Fleet Could Earn Money. A New Program Shows Exactly How.

Your Parked Electric Fleet Could Earn Money. A New Program Shows Exactly How.

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. ...more

EV Charging in Real Places ,Solar, Storage and VPPs

July 28, 20267 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/22/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/22/26 Edition)

The grid watchdog's highest alert, $4.3 billion in data center costs on ratepayers, three states pulling tax breaks, and used electric cars outrunning the market. This week's electrification roundup. ...more

EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup

July 21, 20269 min read

The Used Electric Car Is Quietly Winning. Where Do Those Drivers Plug In?

The Used Electric Car Is Quietly Winning. Where Do Those Drivers Plug In?

Used electric cars are holding value far better than the market as a fuel hedge, and their buyers rent. Why charging demand is moving to apartment and workplace parking lots even as new EV sales fall. ...more

EV Market Signals

July 21, 20263 min read

Used Electric Vehicles Outperform the Entire Wholesale Market, and Charging Demand Changes Address

Used Electric Vehicles Outperform the Entire Wholesale Market, and Charging Demand Changes Address

The Manheim EV Index rose 12 percent year over year against 1.7 percent for the rest of the market. Used EV buyers lack home charging, relocating demand to multifamily, workplace, and retail sites. ...more

EV Market Signals

July 15, 20264 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/15/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/15/26 Edition)

Four states moved against data center power subsidies in ten days, PJM finalizes interconnection rules, and brownfield sites with live grid connections become the most contested real estate in electri... ...more

EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup

July 14, 202612 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/07/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/07/26 Edition)

July 4th's clean energy credit deadline passed, transformer lead times held at two to four years, used EVs neared price parity with gas cars, and data centers became the largest category of commercial... ...more

EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup

July 07, 202612 min read

Amazon's 50,000 Chargers and the End of the Hardware-First Era

Amazon's 50,000 Chargers and the End of the Hardware-First Era

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 h... ...more

EV Charging in Real Places

July 07, 20266 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/01/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/01/26 Edition)

Weekly structural analysis of U.S. commercial electricity rates, data center power constraints, fleet depot charging load management, and solid-state transformer tech. ...more

EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup

June 30, 202612 min read

When Uncontrolled Charging Quadruples Your Peak Demand

When Uncontrolled Charging Quadruples Your Peak Demand

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... ...more

EV Charging in Real Places

June 23, 20265 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (06/24/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (06/24/26 Edition)

Weekly structural analysis of U.S. commercial electricity rates, data center power constraints, fleet depot charging load management, and solid-state transformer tech. ...more

EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup

June 23, 202611 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (6/17/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (6/17/26 Edition)

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. ...more

EV Market Signals ,EV Charging in Real Places Data Center Demand and Innovation Solar, Storage and VPPs Local Governance and Federal Policy Grid Stress, Storms and Resilience Economics Policy and Market Rules Electrification Economics at the Property Level &Electrification Roundup

June 17, 202616 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (06/10/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (06/10/26 Edition)

Power access defines winners in this week's energy market. Explore how surging utility rate hikes and local data center moratoriums are reshaping property economics, and why onsite generation is becom... ...more

EV Market Signals ,EV Charging in Real Places Data Center Demand and Innovation Solar, Storage and VPPs Local Governance and Federal Policy Grid Stress, Storms and Resilience Economics Policy and Market Rules Electrification Economics at the Property Level &Electrification Roundup

June 09, 20265 min read

The Used-EV Inflection and What It Means for Charging

The Used-EV Inflection and What It Means for Charging

Record used-EV sales are changing the economics of public and workplace charging. Here is why that matters more than many new-EV headlines for real estate owners. ...more

EV Market Signals ,EV Charging in Real Places &EV-Blog

June 02, 20265 min read

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (06/03/26 Edition)

Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (06/03/26 Edition)

This week's headlines that changed who pays, how quickly projects move, and where flexibility is gaining real value. ...more

EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup

June 02, 202613 min read