The Electric Distribution Companies filed three long-term storage contracts with the Massachusetts DPU under Section 83E Round I: Jupiter Power's 700 MW / 2,800 MWh Trimount at a former Everett oil terminal, Flatiron Energy's 250 MW / 1,000 MWh Energizar in Chelsea, and Flatiron's 168 MW / 672 MWh Salt Cod on the Montaup Power Plant site in Somerset. Combined, 1,068 MW / 4,472 MWh at four-hour duration, all on brownfields with utility offtake, all targeted at the state's 5 GW by 2030 goal.
·Fluence Energy press release, July 13, 2026·us-supplyira
Fluence Energy signed on July 13 to provide its Smartstack system and turnkey EPC for Avantus's Rexford 2 project in Tulare County, California: 200 MW solar paired with a 200 MW / 800 MWh, four-hour battery under a 20-year PPA with Clean Power Alliance. Cells, modules, enclosures, and thermal management ship from US plants in Utah, South Carolina, and Texas, keeping the stack inside the domestic-content perimeter.
·Keentel Engineering (ERCOT Batch Zero guide)·interconnectiondata-centers
Texas moves from one-at-a-time interconnection studies to a coordinated batch model. The July 24 utility submission deadline closes the on-ramp for the inaugural cycle, with megawatt allocations for years one through six due in April 2027.
Cypress Creek Energy and Google broke ground this week on Steel River Energy Center in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Full build is 2.5 GWdc of solar plus 2.9 GWh of storage across three phases through 2029, with Google under PPA for the first two phases (1.6 GWdc, 1.9 GWh). Every major component is US-sourced: First Solar modules, 142,000-plus tons of structural steel from U.S. Steel's Big River facility in Osceola, LG Energy Solution Vertech battery systems assembled in the US.
·Eos Energy Enterprises investor release, July 15, 2026·us-supplythesis-confirm
Zinc-halide long-duration storage maker Eos Energy Enterprises pre-announced Q2 2026 revenue of $68 to $69 million on July 15, its highest quarter ever, with backlog up roughly 25 percent quarter-over-quarter to about $807 million. First-half 2026 revenue already exceeded all of 2025, and Battery Line 2 at the Thorn Hill, Pennsylvania plant has started commercial production, keeping the company on the path to a 4 GWh annual run-rate by year-end. The read-through: a non-lithium, US-domiciled long-duration storage supplier is finally clearing the scale threshold that offtake counterparties actually price.
The six Section 206 show-cause orders FERC issued on June 18 have now moved into their working phase. The July 9 intervention window closed last week, resource adequacy informational reports from every RTO and ISO are due July 20, and the substantive tariff responses land August 17. The five reform categories set the terms of what a uniform federal large-load regime will actually look like.
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