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New Jersey May Pay Home Battery Owners To Help Grid When Demand Surges
New Jersey May Pay Home Battery Owners To Help Grid When Demand Surges
New Jersey officials are weighing a plan that would allow homeowners to use batteries as emergency energy backups and a way to earn extra money. Under the proposal, storage systems installed at customers' homes could join a virtual power plant program, helping the grid when electricity demand surges and paying participants for taking part.
On July 15, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities issued a straw proposal for a two-year, technology-neutral VPP. The state's electric distribution companies would...
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Jun 17, 2026 / Tyler Durden
America At 250: Survey Finds Enduring Patriotism, Growing Anxiety
America At 250: Survey Finds Enduring Patriotism, Growing Anxiety
Authored by Karlyn Bowman and Nicole Penn via RealClearPolitics,
As we approach the nation's semiquincentennial celebrations, the American Enterprise Institute released a new public opinion survey exploring Americans' views about the nation's past and present. The survey is part of AEI's America at 250 initiative, and it expands on a survey conducted 30 years ago by the Public Agenda Foundation in NYC.
Americans continue to endorse many of the ideals the founders championed, and they worry about their erosion. Nearly eight in 10...
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Mar 13, 2026 / Joshua Mawhorter
Revisiting Colonial Massachusetts and Mises’s Taxonomy of Money
Contrary to what the Modern Monetary Theory advocates and their Chartalist allies are claiming, the 1690 colonial Massachusetts issuance of fiat money did not create an enlightened moment in U.S. monetary history. Instead, it was a monetary bait-and-switch.
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Jun 21, 2026 / Dave DeCamp
Heavy Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza, Killing Al Jazeera Journalist, Women, and Children
Heavy Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Saturday, with attacks targeting an Al Jazeera journalist and killing women and children, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal. An Israeli strike on a home in central Gaza killed three men, including Ahmed Wishah, a 25-year-old cameraman for Al Jazeera, marking the 12th […]
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