In New Jersey, a Data Center Might Pay for Your Battery
New law lets data centers offset energy use by funding energy resources installed on homes and businesses
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Your Home as a Power Plant — and Now a Data Center
Sunrun placing AI compute nodes in homes equipped with its solar and battery systems
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8 Things to Know About Plug-in Solar as it Gains Traction in the US
What is plug-in solar? Can households really install it themselves? Is it safe? Is it cost-effective and will it take off in the US as it has in Europe?
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Bloom’s $25B Brookfield Deal Moves Fuel Cells Deeper into the Data Center Power Stack
The announcement solidifies fuel cells as an energy resource gaining ground in the data center boom.
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The 5 Freedoms of Distributed Energy
The US celebrated a big milestone, and so did Energy Changemakers. Here’s what we learned from 50 interviews.
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ICF: Some U.S. Grid Regions Have No Capacity Left for New Load Beyond Next Year
Electric demand is set to grow significantly over the next decade, but the topline numbers only tell part of the story, according to ICF’s new report.
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Onsite Power’s New Job Description
Once viewed as an insurance policy against outages, onsite power is becoming a business strategy to speed projects, lower costs and protect investment.
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The Rise of the Shadow Grid
The growing use of onsite energy could create a shadow grid operating outside the reach of electric utilities, says report.
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An Irresistible Force Collides with an Immovable Object
Robert Cross of Outfit argues that distributed energy resources have become an “irresistible force” colliding with the “immovable object” of the traditional utility business model
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When It Comes to Electricity, Will We All Become Puerto Rico?
With its use of distributed power plants, the island offers a lesson on how the mainland grid can survive the age of AI.