An NHPA strategic consultant advises hardware retailers to tailor contractor discounts by customer group and product category to protect margins.
Industry Viewpoint: Maximizing Margins With Smart Category Price Plans
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PJM Desperately Needs Grid Batteries. Here’s A Way It Could Get Some.
PJM has proposed market changes that could let batteries connect to existing power projects, but reforms and FERC approval remain pending.
Let’s Keep Things Practical: Contracting In Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
An Energy-Storage.News commentary examines completion tests, risk allocation and asset management in battery storage contracts.
Jinko ESS Pilots Battery Passport With The Global Battery Alliance, Accelerating Compliance With The EU Battery Regulation
Jinko ESS tested the Global Battery Alliance’s Battery Passport using a 5 MWh storage product and its supply chain, including third-party verification.
House Of Lords Event Marks HVACR Women Week
About 160 HVACR figures attended a House of Lords event ahead of Global HVACR Women Week, discussing women’s experiences and retention in the sector.
Tractor Supply Company Appoints New Executive Vice President, Chief Technology And Digital Officer
Fahim Siddiqui will join Tractor Supply on Oct. 26 as executive vice president, chief technology and digital officer, overseeing technology and digital teams.
From a spoken sentence to a checkable defect, with photo and deadline
Speak the defect on the site walk, add a photo and a deadline, even with no signal: how Gewerkton Field turns spoken defects into proposals that site management reviews and approves. Gewerkton is in beta: 2026 is the beta year, and general availability is planned for 2027.
A New Class Of Batteries Helps Data Centers Play Nicely With The Grid
ON.Energy says lab trials of its AI UPS battery system succeeded; a 5-gigawatt Crusoe order sets up a commercial-scale test.
Private Residential Construction Spending Up In August
U.S. private residential construction spending reached an $882.3 billion annual rate in August, rising from July but remaining below its year-earlier level.
Diesel Prices Are Rising Worldwide. So Are Electric Truck Sales.
BloombergNEF says nearly 160,000 electric trucks sold worldwide in the first half of 2026, while higher diesel prices strengthen their cost case.
