June CPI relief was mostly gasoline. The consumer electricity index stayed 4% higher year over year, and EIA commercial prices were 5.8% higher. How owners and communities underwrite rising building-power costs.
The Manheim EV Index rose 12 percent year over year against 1.7 percent for the rest of the market. Used EV buyers lack home charging, relocating demand to multifamily, workplace, and retail sites.
Battery storage posted its largest quarter ever at 9.7 GWh while rooftop solar stalled. The tax credit divergence, interconnection speed, and VPP revenue explain why storage now stands alone.
A Sterling, Virginia data center site sold for $6.1 million an acre. With interconnection queues running seven years, the grid connection has become the most valuable improvement on a parcel.
Governor Hochul signed the first statewide data center moratorium, pausing permits above 50 MW and directing regulators to make data centers fund their own distributed generation and storage.
Four states moved against data center power subsidies in ten days, PJM finalizes interconnection rules, and brownfield sites with live grid connections become the most contested real estate in electrification.