An energy demand charge is a fee on a commercial electric bill based on the single highest rate of power a site pulls from the grid during the billing period. It's measured in kilowatts (kW), usually over a 15- or 30-minute window, and billed separately from the...
How you buy onsite energy systems is the biggest lever you control. Buyers who know what they need before going to market and make suppliers compete on the same information can cut procurement to 9-12 weeks. Projects run this way consistently come in 20-45% below the...
Commercial and industrial property owners can earn an annual payment to lease unused parking, yard or outparcel space to a battery developer. The developer pays for, builds and runs the battery, and earns its revenue by stacking several grid programs. Capacity...
Does onsite solar still pencil out without the federal tax credit? Yes, but the reasoning has to shift. The federal solar investment tax credit is winding down, and a lot of businesses that were weighing an onsite energy project are asking the same question. What is...
The solar investment tax credit (ITC) is going away. The deadline to safe-harbor a solar project and secure a four-year window to complete the project and receive the ITC was July 4, 2026. For projects that start construction after July 4, they must be placed into...
Solar photovoltaic costs have fallen by a factor of more than 10,000 since the first commercial cells were placed on a Navy satellite in the 1950s. Greg Nemet, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs and author of How...
Lithia Motors runs more than 450 business units across three countries. It's the largest automotive retailer in the United States. And like every company with a footprint that size, it is concerned about energy. Carson Bristol is Lithia's Program Manager for Energy...
For most people exploring solar and battery storage for their company, this operational question often looms large: once this system is built, what does my team have to do? The fear is that owning an energy asset means inheriting an ongoing technical burden. The...
The Solar Efficiency Argument Has a Dollar Value, and Its Not Big The case for waiting on solar technology rests on the observation that panel efficiency tends to improve over time, which is accurate. The rate of improvement is approximately half a percent per year in...
