Tesla alum’s Heron Power closes $38M Series A to transform key grid technology

Heron Power, the electrical grid-focused startup founded by former Tesla executive Drew Baglino, announced Thursday it…

Volteras wants to connect to more EVs than anyone else

For years, people have been worried — both rightly and otherwise — that electric vehicles could strain…

Gridcare thinks more than 100 GW of data center capacity is hiding in the grid

Hyperscalers and data center developers are in a pickle: They all want to add computing power…

Gridcare thinks more than 100 MW of data center capacity is hiding in the grid

Hyperscalers and data center developers are in a pickle: They all want to add computing power…

XL Batteries is using petrochemical infrastructure to store solar and wind power

Plenty of materials — from sulfur and sodium to manganese and organic molecules — have tried…

Former Tesla exec Drew Baglino’s new startup is rethinking the electrical transformer

Former Tesla executive Drew Baglino has a new startup developing solid-state transformers for the electric grid,…

Solar crushed 2024, but emissions were up as industry used more natural gas

The U.S. invested a record-breaking $338 billion in the energy transition last year, according to a…

ElectronX is building a stock market for electricity trading

Renewable electricity is cheap and clean, but also less predictable than firing up a gas turbine.…

Trump admin reverses hydropower layoffs that sparked grid stability fears

This month, the Trump administration instituted sweeping cuts within the federal agencies in charge of power…

Amperesand targets data centers as the next big customer for its solid-state transformers

With data centers expected to consume as much as 12% of electricity in the U.S. by…

Gridware’s boxes literally listen to power lines to find outages

Tim Barat loved being a lineman at an electric company in Australia, where he grew up,…

AI data centers could be ‘distorting’ the US power grid

The proliferation of data centers aiming to meet the computational needs of AI could be bad…