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Decentralized Grid Magazine
How We Need to Think about AI Energy Demand Now
Tech journalist Rich Miller explains why the bears and the bulls may both be wrong about AI energy demand.
What Fleet Owners Don’t Get About Electrification
Fleet electrification can lower transportation costs for businesses and institutions. It can also create some headaches if early steps aren’t done correctly.
Massachusetts Bill Would Make DERS 20% of Supply, Create Solar and VPP Programs
Two state lawmakers have proposed a host of programs to boost distributed energy in Massachusetts.
How to Position Distributed Energy Now?
Trump’s energy emergency declaration tries to upend how the nation thinks and talks about energy. What happens to distributed energy in the upheaval?
Hey DOGE! What About Energy Efficiency?
The Trump administration’s DOGE says it’s about efficiency, but apparently not energy efficiency.
10 Intriguing Distributed Energy Projects & Plans to Watch in 2025
Hat’s off to the innovators, inventors, and risk-takers who are remaking the grid with distributed energy. Here are 10 projects we’re watching.