While many industries have suffered during the pandemic, others have persevered. Some have even thrived. The U.S. energy storage industry posted one of its best periods of growth ever in the second quarter of 2020...
A new report by Wood Mackenzie suggests that the exponential growth of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as wind, solar and battery storage, pose both benefits and challenges for electric utilities, largely due to the...
According to the latest report from Dodge Data & Analytics, total construction fell 7% from June to July to a seasonally-adjusted rate of $631.6 billion. However, the only real loss in the three segments that Dodge covers was...
August 2020 is a month many Californians will probably prefer to forget. Wildfires, heat waves and power outages highlighted the state’s continuing need to diversify, even after years of pioneering leadership in the field of...
Contractors providing video surveillance, networking or telecommunications products and services to the federal government will have fewer equipment options as of September 30, when implementation rules are slated to go into...
The National Commission on Grid Resilience, co-chaired by General Wesley Clark and former Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), is a bipartisan effort to secure the nation’s grid. The commission released a report, “Grid Resilience...
The end game of energy innovation has always been to end fossil fuel use. Questions remain about how long that will take and if the country can make a complete transformation. A new report says that could be sooner rather...
According to the Energy Storage Association (ESA), it is possible to have 100 gigawatts of new energy storage deployed in the United States by the end of the decade. The national trade association whose members include...
The National Electrical Code includes requirements to ground electrical systems. It also contains information regarding electrical systems that are prohibited from being grounded and those systems that are permitted to be—but not required to be—grounded. If an electrical system is grounded as a requirement or by choice, all the rules related to grounded systems must be applied.