The latest renewable energy news includes announcements on ArcLight, WATTMORE, Eos Energy, PG&E, and others.
ArcLight Commits $1 Billion to Launch Anchor Point Transmission for US Grid Expansion
ArcLight Capital Partners has committed $1 billion in equity to launch Anchor Point Transmission, an independent company targeting high-voltage grid infrastructure across the United States. Anchor Point plans to partner with utilities as electricity demand rises from AI computing, manufacturing and electrification, creating the need for substantially more transmission investment. ArcLight brings significant infrastructure experience: since 2001, the firm has owned, controlled or operated more than 70 GW of assets and approximately 48,000 miles of electric and gas transmission and storage infrastructure, representing over $90 billion in enterprise value. Anchor Point will be led by Executive Chairman Michael Deggendorf and President Justin Campbell. The platform highlights growing private-capital interest in transmission as grid capacity becomes a constraint on renewable generation and large new electrical loads.
WATTMORE and Eos Integrate Software With 4–16+ Hour Zinc Battery Storage
WATTMORE and Eos Energy Enterprises have signed a strategic software-and-hardware agreement integrating WATTMORE’s Intellect Operate energy-management, power-plant-control and SCADA platform with Eos’ Z3 zinc-based long-duration battery technology and DawnOS software. Eos will deploy WATTMORE’s EMS and PPC technology on selected customer projects, creating a pre-integrated control architecture for utility, data-center, microgrid and commercial storage applications. Eos’ storage technology is designed for durations of 4 to more than 16 hours, providing an alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries. The companies have already demonstrated the combination at a 3 MW / 12 MWh project for Nebraska utility Lincoln Electric System. The agreement is intended to reduce integration complexity as Eos expands its project pipeline and utilities deploy longer-duration batteries for renewable-energy balancing.
PG&E Expands Vehicle-to-Grid Program to Kia, Volvo, Polestar and Nissan EVs Pacific Gas and Electric Company has expanded its California Vehicle-to-Everything program, adding EV models from Kia, Volvo, Polestar and Nissan along with new technology partners Bidirectional Energy and PowerFlex. These vehicles join eligible models from Ford, Tesla, Chevrolet, GMC and Cadillac. The program enables compatible electric vehicles to function as both home backup batteries and grid resources, allowing stored vehicle energy to support households during outages or respond to electricity-system needs. PG&E’s expansion increases the number of vehicle, charger and software combinations that customers can use for bidirectional power flows. Vehicle-to-grid technology could become an important distributed-storage resource as EV adoption rises because millions of parked vehicle batteries collectively represent substantial flexible capacity without requiring utilities to build equivalent standalone BESS installations.
