Renew Home

Base Power launches ultra-cheap, 40 kWh home batteries in Illinois (ComEd) with upfront pricing and ongoing bill discounts, backed by a $1B funding round, riding Illinois policy and PJM regulatory changes toward distributed energy resources.

Tesla, Sunrun, and Renew Home announce a joint plan to deliver about 16 GW of flexible capacity from home batteries and smart thermostats to support data centers and grid reliability, amid a regulatory push and large-scale pilot deployments.

New Jersey passes a Data Center Fair Share Act allowing data centers to finance household energy upgrades (heat pumps, solar, batteries) to secure grid capacity, with a regulated rollout and a new data-center rate class, potentially starting mid-2028.