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FEOC Recapture Keeps the Battery Tax Credit at Risk for a Decade, Reaching Warranty and Service Contracts

FEOC recapture keeps the battery ITC exposed for ten years and reaches warranty and service contracts, not just cell procurement

July 17, 2026

Amazon Is Underwriting a North American Battery Maker With Equity Warrants Instead of a Purchase Order

Amazon's warrant-linked battery deal with Electrovaya and the corporate-offtake model for financing domestic US cell manufacturing

Jul 16

Minnesota Approved a Utility-Owned Distributed Battery Fleet. Clean-Energy Groups Say Ratepayers Carry the Risk

Xcel Minnesota's utility-owned distributed battery program and the dispute over who should own distribution-level storage

Jul 15

PGE Isolated Data Center Costs, and Its Commercial Power Rates Fell 2.1 Percent

PGE Schedule 96 large-load tariff cuts commercial rates 2.1% by isolating data center costs, testing the data-center-raises-demand-charges thesis

Jul 14

Lazard Finds US Battery Storage Costs Rose 27% Since 2020, Reversing a Decade of Falling Prices

Lazard's 2026 analysis finds US battery storage costs rose about 27% since 2020, reversing the decline narrative, driven by tariffs, higher metals and financing costs, and reshoring premiums

Jul 13

The Alta Wind Ruling Preserves Appraisal-Based ITC Valuation, and Makes Documentation the Price of Keeping It

Alta Wind III preserves appraisal-based ITC basis valuation while raising the documentation bar for solar-plus-storage credit underwriting

Jul 12

Smart-Grid and AI Patents Are Nearing an Enforcement Window That Could Expose Storage Software

A maturing wave of smart-grid patents plus a newer AI-and-machine-learning wave are approaching a peak-assertion window that could expose the dispatch and optimization software behind commercial storage economics

Jul 10
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