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The energy industry just turned an oil terminal into a battery farm. That gives you a great signal of where the industry is headed.

Five moves happened this week that most people in this industry are not connecting.

When you connect them, the picture is uncomfortably clear about where the jobs, the capital, and the urgency are all pointing at once.

This week's AMPED Energy Intel is live. Don't miss this one.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oil-terminals-battery-farms-grid-getting-new-owner-amped-energy-crawc

Most EV owners are making at least 3 of these mistakes right now. Some of them are costing hundreds. Some are quietly killing the battery.

We broke it down for you.

The 10 habits that are draining your EV and exactly how to fix each one.

Read it before your next charge.
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-ev-charging-mistakes-quietly-draining-your-battery-wallet-qk1vc

EV charging is not a side market.
It is becoming one of the biggest workforce opportunities in clean energy.

There is great demand across the entire charging ecosystem:

-Residential charging
-Workplace charging
-Fleet depots
-Public charging sites
-Highway corridors
-Service and maintenance

Every charger installed becomes equipment that needs to be supported, monitored, diagnosed, repaired, and kept online.

That is where the workforce opportunity is building.

And for anyone looking for a practical entry point, SkillFusion’s Fast Track EV Charging Course is where it starts.

3 hours.
$99.
Online.

EV adoption is moving fast!

The people who understand the infrastructure behind it will have the advantage.

The EV opportunity is not just in the vehicle. It’s in everything required to keep the vehicle moving.

That’s the part many are missing.

EV adoption creates demand. But EV charging creates an entire workforce economy.

Residential charging. Multifamily properties. Workplaces.
Retail parking. Hwy corridors.
Fleet depots. Service and maintenance.

Every charger installed becomes something that must be supported, diagnosed, maintained, updated, and repaired.

That’s where the real opportunity is building.

After all, infrastructure does not scale on hardware alone. It scales when trained people can keep it running.

Michigan just became a name you need to know in energy storage.

This week's AMPED Energy Intel covers five stories that connect in one direction.

If you work in this industry, install in this industry, or are building a career in this industry, this edition is required reading.

Link below.
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/michigan-plugged-ai-powered-up-grid-has-new-boss-amped-energy-y7lve

Most people think the future of EV charging is happening at public charging stations.

The data says otherwise.

An estimated 800,000 home EV chargers are already installed in California alone, and roughly 80% of EV charging happens at home.

That changes the conversation.

The future of EV infrastructure isn't just about building more public chargers.

It's about creating an intelligent energy ecosystem that connects homes, EVs, battery storage, solar, utilities, and the grid.

As EV adoption grows, the workforce required to maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize these systems grows with it.

The real challenge isn't deploying technology. It's having enough skilled people to keep it running.

That's where the next phase of the energy transition will be won. And that's what we proudly cover.

Did You Know?

EV charging and battery energy storage are no longer separate conversations.

They are becoming the same system.

As EV adoption accelerates, fast chargers place massive demand on the grid, especially at highway corridors, fleets, and commercial charging hubs.

That is where BESS, Battery Energy Storage Systems, changes everything.

Battery storage helps:
* Reduce grid strain
* Support ultra-fast charging
* Improve uptime and stability
* Lower peak demand costs
* Store renewable energy for smarter distribution

The future is not just “more chargers.”

It is intelligent energy infrastructure where EV charging, solar, battery storage, and grid management work together as one connected ecosystem.

The companies that understand this now will build the infrastructure that actually scales later.

That's exactly why workforce readiness across EV charging and BESS matters more than ever.

Voltera and Revel just merged and what that signals matters.

Today, the two companies announced a combination that creates one of the largest dedicated EV charging footprints for fleet and autonomous vehicle operations in the U.S.

That’s 1,000+ stalls across 11 major metro markets, backed by EQT as majority owner with BlackRock’s GIP retaining a stake.

The infrastructure is scaling. Fast.

But here’s what very few are talking about yet:

Who maintains it?

1,000 charging stalls across 11 cities means thousands of service events per year. Repairs. Preventive maintenance. Hardware failures.

That workforce doesn’t exist yet at the scale this industry needs.

That’s exactly what SkillFusion was built for. AI-driven technician training and matching, purpose-built for the EV charging and fleet ecosystem.

The hardware is getting funded.
The workforce has to keep up.

We’re on it.

This Memorial Day, we pause.

Not for a long weekend.

We pause because freedom has a cost.

Today, we honor the men and women who gave everything in service to this country.

We remember their courage.
Their families, who carry the weight of that loss every day.

At SkillFusion, we talk often about building the future.
Infrastructure. Energy. Technology. Workforce.

But none of it matters without the freedom to build it.

That freedom was protected by people who chose service over comfort and country over everything.

Today, we remember them.

With gratitude.

$1.35 billion moved into Energy this week.

Ford signed a 20 GWh deal in 7 days. Three Texas solar projects closed nearly a billion dollars in financing with Google on the other end of the contract. A thermal battery the size of a power plant commissioned in South Dakota in under a year. And a policy fight that affects homeowners in 27 states finally got named out loud.

This is not a trends piece. This is the week the money moved.

This week's AMPED Energy Intel is live.

The people in this industry who stay ahead read it first.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/135b-moved-energy-week-now-comes-workforce-test-ending-may-fsjnc