The Duck CurveArchive
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October 2026
- Xcimer Energy finalizes up to $30.5M more from DOE fusion milestone program
- Poland opens PLN 1 billion in home battery grants on October 20
- Tesla turns on Powershare home backup for new Model 3 and Model Y
- Google backs 890 MW of Constellation nuclear uprates at 11 PJM units
- Type One Energy raises $200M Series B for its Tennessee fusion plant
- DOE clears MARVEL microreactor's final safety analysis for dry criticality
- Interconnection queues and costs in the US
- Australian BEV share eases to 24.2% in September on FCAI's count
- ITER's ninth and final vacuum vessel sector arrives from Europe
- Renew Home, now Everyday Electric, buys connected-car platform Smartcar
- Ampol agrees to buy Evie Networks and its 1,031 charging bays for A$225M
- DOE offers Vistra conditional loan of up to $4.2B for nuclear uprates
- US and Korea earmark up to $120B for eight reactors, with no sites named
- Honda and Taisei test in-road wireless charging built for 20-ton trucks
- BMW opens Irlbach-Straßkirchen plant to assemble Neue Klasse batteries
- Germany's MiSpeL rules let home batteries mix grid and solar power
- Berkeley Lab: batteries paired with 37% of new US home solar in 2025
- National Grid's winter heat pump rate clears the DPU at $0.02476 per kWh
- South Coast AQMD adds $60.2 million to GO ZERO with lower home rebates
- Texas drilling permit issued for Deep Isolation's borehole disposal pilot
- NANO Nuclear agrees to buy NRC license for unbuilt New Mexico DUF6 plant
- Colorado Springs votes 7-2 for grid access or demand charges on new solar
- Chubu files Hamaoka 3 and 4 withdrawal; NRA issues no disposition
- Norway's new vans were 74.6% electric in September after a tax increase
- Tesla Q3 2026: 486,532 deliveries, 13.7 GWh of storage, no Semi figure
- Antora plans 5.8 GWh thermal battery at Pratt Energy's Kansas biorefinery
- Oracle deal expected to absorb about $300 million of Point Beach fuel costs
- Vermont Gas will fund and own Riggs Meadow ground loops; Dandelion drills
- Ultium Cells to make LMR prismatic EV cells at Spring Hill, Tennessee
- Fervo declares commercial operation at Cape Station's first 33 MW GeoBlock
- Amazon signs 20-year Calvert Cliffs PPA backing a 190 MW nuclear uprate
- Newsom signs SB 868, California's plug-in solar law, as Chapter 985
- FedEx orders 2,000 Harbinger electric trucks, valued at over $300 million
- FERC accepts PJM backstop procurement but suspends it to February 2027
- Newsom signs SB 913, a 2028 deadline to count aggregations as grid capacity
- EIA: light-duty EV electricity use grew 8% in 1H26 after 13–24% half-years
September 2026
- Newsom signs SB 925 fusion strategic plan and AB 2647 nuclear assessment
- Newsom signs SB 222, California's heat pump permitting law, as Chapter 738
- La Verne council ratifies local emergency over MWD battery fire
- NHTSA final CAFE rule sets standards without counting EV fuel economy
- UK announces Great British Grid, a public investor in electricity networks
- NRC issues TVA a construction permit for a 300 MW BWRX-300 at Clinch River
- Northland's 80 MW Jurassic battery reaches commercial operation in Alberta
- Australia added 276,011 batteries and 1,894 MW of rooftop solar in H1 2026
- Boston sues DOT over $20M RAISE grant withdrawn for EV charging stations
- EHPA: residential heat pump sales rose 11% in 12 European countries
- XGS names Baker Hughes, NM Tech and Sandia for DOE-selected New Mexico well
- Geely agrees to take 30% of NIO Power for Yiyi Power plus RMB640 million
- LG Energy Solution to give B2U battery priority as both explore US storage
- LA Metro board approves 220 electric buses from ENC, gates 1,600 options
- Envision launches 8 MW onshore turbine with a 175-meter rotor in Hamburg
- Newsom signs AB 1738, a remote-inspection option for heat pumps and solar
- Sunrun to supply solar and batteries for SPAN's XFRA nodes in Texas homes
- BETA flies over 1,300 nautical miles on North Carolina medical test routes
- FERC denies Oklo complaint; 750-MW project stays out of PJM's Cycle 01
- Trane launches -20°F heat pump five years after DOE's cold-climate spec
- Hydropower Licensing Transparency Act signed; FERC report within 180 days
- La Verne lifts evacuations after battery fire at MWD's Weymouth plant
- NineDot cuts ribbon on Bronx site it says will deliver nearly 20 MW
- Holtec pauses Palisades fuel loading after one fuel assembly tilted
- Tesla Semi launch event names customers, gives no production rate or price
- Lofgren fusion bill would appropriate $10 billion for commercialization
- Rhode Island launches $32 million HOMES heat pump rebate for multifamily
- DOE selects 31 SPARK grid projects for $1.9 billion in federal funding
- DOE selects five EGS field tests and 16 geothermal drilling projects
- Geely says new station peaks at 2,250 kW, test cars took 4.5 minutes to 70%
- Fervo reports first power from Cape Station's first 33 MW GeoBlock in Utah
- NRC's proposed reactor rule published; comments due November 9
- PG&E and GM Energy bundle charger at no additional cost, $15 monthly credit
- Colorado awards $23.2M in fast-charging grants from NEVI and state funds
- 2,500 electric Class 8 trucks ordered through ZET SCALE, Tesla primary OEM
- NVIDIA opens DSX Ready battery qualification for AI factories, names three
- Energy Vault buys Goshe's 15 US battery development projects, over 2.3 GW
- Sunrun and Tesla put the September 9 home-battery dispatch at over 580 MW
- Massachusetts awards over $40M for storage at schools, housing and a resort
- First six Megapacks installed at Hawaiian Electric's 40 MW Waena battery
- nT-Tao and Orion sign MoU on US deployment of up-to-20 MW fusion system
- Morgan Stanley's 1GT leads €49M Series E for Amber Electric
- Samsung C&T commits up to $100M of investment and engineering to Kairos
- Käppeli Logistik orders its first Tesla Semi at IAA, 2027 delivery planned
- CNNC proposes fusion engineering platform, unit signs ITER memorandum
- Newsom signs six EV bills on charger permits, fees, and battery labels
- Google-sponsored pilot charged and discharged 9.2 GWh at esVolta batteries
- BYD Sealion 7 joins Amber's ARENA-backed V2G program in Australia
- Minnesota PUC finds co-op's threat to disconnect Upper Sioux solar unlawful
- UK pushes electric heating appliance rules to October 2028 at the earliest
- UK Fusion Energy joins MTC as Tier 1 member, to spend up to £10m on R&D
- Vistra reports new fire in Moss Landing 300 building's unburned batteries
- Congress moved four energy bills in three days; one goes to the President
- Natura receives Oak Ridge's 1960s FLiBE salt for its Abilene reactor
- Virgin Islands VPP discharges at 800 kW and 500 kW in two half-hour tests
- First Student says trenchless NYC bus charging cut build costs 13%
- Mazama Energy raises $135M for superhot geothermal wells at Newberry
- PG&E picks six community microgrids for $30M in second incentive round
- Massachusetts adds winter transmission discount to two heat pump rates
- Westinghouse eVinci reaches zero-power criticality at 663°C
- EIB backs Steady Energy's heat-only SMR with up to €40M convertible loan
- NYC picks it's electric for its 600-point curbside charging expansion
- DICP's 250-kW system co-produces hydrogen and fresh water from seawater
- Oklo tells FERC that PJM's fault test is not in PJM's own guidelines
- UK Fusion Week: a UK-US statement, a supercomputer link and up to £3m
- Chubu withdraws Hamaoka 3 and 4 applications after seismic-data inquiry
- UL Solutions opens V2G certification under new UL 1741 Supplement SC
- Alstom signs over €1.2bn of contracts for 29 TransPennine battery trains
- Deep Fission lowers full-size canister replica 100 feet into a borehole
- Thea Energy's Helios stellarator design lands in 16 peer-reviewed papers
- Suniva closes $835M raise for 4.5 GW South Carolina solar cell plant
- NCDOT awards $14.4M in NEVI funds for 14 corridor charging sites
- BLM sets October 27 auction for 19 California geothermal parcels
- PJM says Oklo's fix left the 750-MW model unstable, asks FERC to deny
- Tesla says about 69,000 California homes sent over 500 MW to the grid
- Tesla says Cybertruck Powershare now backs up homes with a Powerwall 3
- NRC proposes rule package for existing reactors and new applicants
- Hexagon leases geothermal rights on 145,000 acres of Weyerhaeuser forest
- PJM proposes ride-through rules for data centers after 3,800 MW drop-off
- SEIA/WoodMac: residential solar fell 12% in Q2 2026, utility-scale up 61%
- Wildflower breaks ground on 38-stall JFK Park fast-charging hub in Queens
- Department of War plans shore-based Navy microreactor at Crane by 2028
- Centrus signs HALEU supply contract for Radiant's Kaleidos microreactors
- CU Boulder preprint says SMR operating costs, not capex, drive poor returns
- DOE closes loan of up to $1.9B for Duane Arnold nuclear restart
- Pennsylvania opens $11M NEVI round for chargers in 26 central counties
- Wisconsin awards $25M in NEVI grants to 42 fast-charging sites
- Ember: coal power has stalled in 17 of the 26 Chinese regions it tracks
- Daikin recalls about 4,633 Amana through-the-wall units over fire hazard
- ENGIE's storage fleet reaches 10.7 GW operating or under construction
- Bruegel: Europe's EVs hold 600 GWh, about ten times its stationary storage
- South Coast AQMD opens $73.1M of warehouse fees to zero-emission trucks
- SB Energy IPO filing shows about 5.5 GWac of contracted solar and storage
- Google to buy from 86 MW solar and zinc storage project in West Virginia
- ProLogium says its 381 Wh/kg solid-state cell is in mass production
- Virtual power plants in the US
- California budget bill carries no 2027 money for its DSGS home-battery VPP
- India drafts storage mandate for ground-mounted solar and onshore wind
- Siemens Energy's Newcastle works to build turbines for UK's first SMRs
- East Point withdraws 125 MW Tewksbury battery over grid upgrade costs
- NRC proposes groundwater rule for uranium in-situ recovery sites
- Australia's battery-electric sales hit a record 24.9% share in August
- Equinor's 100 MW Citrus Flatts battery starts merchant operations in ERCOT
- PG&E launches Google-funded SHARE virtual power plant in the Bay Area
- MnDOT opens $41.2M NEVI round for fast chargers in Greater Minnesota
- Studsvik picks GE Vernova Hitachi, Samsung C&T for four Swedish BWRX-300s
- Fervo and Google sign 396 MW geothermal PPA for possible Utah data center
- Skyven reports sustained COP of 8.0 at its Arcturus steam heat pump demo
- Norway's new passenger cars were 98.7% zero-emission in August
- MGE Energy buys into Realta Fusion to explore 200-MWe Wisconsin plant
- China starts taxing lithium-ion batteries at 2%, solar cells next
- New Jersey exempts balcony solar up to 1,200 W from utility sign-off
- Holtec begins loading fuel into the Palisades reactor
- Duke Energy Florida turns a second grid battery into a community microgrid
August 2026
- Oklo asks FERC to reinstate its 750-MW project in PJM's queue
- Tennessee issues Type One Energy a fusion-specific license
- SK On to supply 9 GWh of US-made LFP cells to NeoVolta Power
- Standard Nuclear to supply Antares up to eight tons of TRISO fuel
- Shell completes sale of home battery maker sonnen to family office Tiven
- Ballard closes GeoPura acquisition, takes over hydrogen power rentals
- Ember: 2026 battery additions could shift over a third of new solar output
- Gorham, NH Tesla Supercharger site to shut October 25 over power bills
- California sues Interior to undo Morro Bay offshore wind lease buyout
- KIMM demonstrates ammonia heat pump cooling from 40°C waste heat
- Jackery launches HomePower 1000 Plus V2 with up to 11 kWh expansion
- Five US microreactor designs went critical in the summer of 2026
- Ontario airport gets nearly $4.15M FAA grant for electric ground equipment
- US uranium output more than tripled in 2025 as enrichment plants line up
- Canadian Solar storage beats guidance, modules fall 60% year over year
- Trump declares bulk-power emergency, targets foreign grid equipment
- Marathon Fusion says its plasma centrifuge enriched lithium and hydrogen
- US Army awards up to $2.2 billion for microreactors at five bases
- California Legislature passes SB 222 to standardize heat pump permits
- NRDC projects US loses up to 540 GW of renewables under Trump policies
- PSE&G pays $5,000 toward home batteries in new VPP pilot
- Boise School District launches eight electric school buses for 2026-27
- Pacific Fusion breaks ground on a $1 billion fusion campus in Albuquerque
- Maine selects Clearway's 800 MW wind project and a 1,200 MW Avangrid line
- Sunrun will supply home battery capacity to Voltus's AI hyperscaler deals
- FERC approves SPP plan to reroute power around grid congestion
- Schneider Electric launches a home EV charger that manages panel load
- PG&E expands V2X program to Nissan, Volvo, Polestar, and Kia EVs
- GridLab: V2G could supply 30% of California's utility-scale storage target
- Heart Aerospace's 106-foot electric X1 demonstrator makes first flight
- Saudi Arabia signs 2 GW of battery storage deals in its first BESS tender
- Ann Arbor's city utility installs solar and batteries at no upfront cost
- Massachusetts swaps surprise solar upgrade charges for a flat $225 fee
- 11 GW-plus Northwest plan, Austria's storage pivot, Walmart's 100th charger
- Einride to deploy 500 Tesla Semis, tripling its electric truck fleet
- Sage Geosystems puts its 3 MW Texas geothermal plant in service
- US grid batteries near 52 GW after three years of 70% annual growth
- New Jersey proposes 10-year payments for up to 150 MW of home batteries
- CATL's lithium-air numbers, checked against 15 years of published results
- LLNL and Pacific Fusion push Sirius pulser past 3,000 shots
- FCC redraws its foreign inverter ban around the 45X tax credit
- Coconut Creek runs Florida's first all-electric garbage fleet
- Anthro Energy breaks ground on 12,000-ton electrolyte plant in Louisville