Earn money and lower Texas grid stress with Austin Energy’s new Power Partner Battery program. Connect home backup batteries to build a virtual power plant.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A utility company in El Paso, Texas, now offers a program that pays homeowners to install backup battery ...

America’s largest provider of home battery storage, solar, and home-to-grid power plants, today announced that its California distributed power plant will support the state’s electrical grid this ...

Buildings are evolving from passive consumers to active grid resources, helping to balance energy demand during peak hours. Industry standards such as OpenADR and CTA-2045 facilitate interoperability ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When a heat wave hits, millions of air conditioners switch on at once, straining the electric grid and driving up the risk of outages — and residents’ power bills. To ease that strain, ...

Sonam Velani hooks up a battery from Every Electric to power an air conditioner as part of a pilot program with the city's energy company Con Edison to reduce pressure on the electrical grid Monday, ...

Read full article: Watching Gulf low as weekend storm chances stick around. Here’s what to expect. Real ballots are already arriving ahead of Florida’s Aug. 18 primary, and election officials say a ...