The US Senate Finance Committee released its version of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Monday, which goes easier on clean energy than the version passed by the House in May — but not by a lot.
Host Elisa Wood interviews energy innovators and leaders who are remaking the electric grid on the Energy Changemakers Podcast.
Defining energy wealth in an era of distributed energy requires looking at not only energy access but also energy ownership.
Microgrids have always been hard to define succinctly because they are not really just one thing. They can morph to serve a variety of energy needs. Veteran energy journalists Lisa Cohn and Peter Asmus describe how they’ve evolved.
Rory McIlmoil, a researcher at NREL and a local volunteer firefighter, found himself cleaning up from Hurricane Helene and thinking about how much easier it would be with a microgrid.
Data center guru Rich Miller interviews Elisa Wood about data centers and onsite power.
Sandeep Vaheesan, author of Democracy in Power, sees grassroots frustration with the status quo invigorating public interest in energy democracy.
What are microgrids now? By definition, microgrids have not changed, but their value proposition is evolving with the times.
Australia’s microgrid market — poised to nearly triple by 2030 — attracts new private equity investment for commercial microgrids.
The arcane concept of “grid inertia” is suddenly making headlines following Spain’s power outage.