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Wendy’s Deal Shows How Community Solar Can Double as an ESG Play

The Wendy’s restaurants are using the Ampion program to help achieve goals set last year to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 47%, and Scope 3 emissions from franchisees by 47% per restaurant by 2030.

Elisa Wood
June 28, 2024
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Are We In a Period of Runaway Hype about Electric Demand?

Distributed energy should be the first resource considered before we build riskier, larger projects to meet AI-driven electric demand.

Elisa Wood
June 21, 2024
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How Bad are Interconnection Delays for Distributed Energy?  We’ll Know Soon.

Stories abound about interconnection delays on the distribution grid. But it’s mostly anecdotal. That’s about to change with a new project to map the delays nationwide — and make the information public.

Elisa Wood
June 14, 2024
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No One Said You’re Not Green, California. What’s in Question is Your Stance on Distributed Energy

After last week’s vote on community solar, distributed energy advocates have another reason to suspect California will not be a leader in grid decentralization.

Elisa Wood
June 5, 2024
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Going Off-Grid to Tackle Big Problems in Energy and Real Estate

The term “off-grid” conjures a cabin in the woods, not sophisticated urban buildings. But that’s beginning to change, and the latest example is an apartment building in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Elisa Wood
May 31, 2024
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Technology Isn’t Causing the DER Industry’s Data Woes. It’s People.

Building a coalition of the willing may be what it takes to fix the problems that DER providers face accessing utility data.

Elisa Wood
May 28, 2024

A DER Energy Marketplace Exchange Launching in ERCOT: Live Stream Forum May 22

Join us for the May 22 Energy Changemakers’ live stream forum: A DER Energy Marketplace Exchange Launching in ERCOT

Elisa Wood
May 22, 2024
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Time to set a Moonshot Goal for Distributed Energy Resources?

A moonshot goal for distributed energy resources could get us all rowing in the same direction and quicken the pace of local energy development.

Elisa Wood
May 17, 2024
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A Fuel Cell that Readies Us for the Future

Commodity markets for hydrogen and carbon dioxide are coming. FuelCell Energy gets a Sacramento, Calif. wastewater treatment plant ready.

Elisa Wood
May 7, 2024
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Staying Inspired While Fighting the Status Quo: DER Developer Offers Advice

Join the Energy Changemakers Livestream, “The Spirit of Clean Energy,” Wednesday, May 8.

Elisa Wood
May 6, 2024
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How Energy Customers are Reshaping the Grid

Homeowners and businesses are investing in distributed energy for their own reasons and collectively—and maybe inadvertently—also rewiring how the entire electric system evolves.

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Why Large-Load Developers Are BecomingTheir Own Power Suppliers Headlines are everywhere about the electric grid straining under a surge in demand from data centers and other large loads. But the more urgent story is: How can the grid evolve to meet this new demand at speed? Utility and regional grid planning efforts often take years […]

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For decades, commercial and industrial facilities operated under a simple assumption: electricity service was readily available and highly reliable. Backup generators were installedprimarily to meet regulatory requirements or protect against rare emergencies. Today, that assumption is becoming less certain. The US grid is under mounting pressure from severe weather, aging infrastructure, and rapid growth in […]

2026 Market Survey: Microgrid and Distributed Energy Projects Grow in Complexity

Reports of distributed energy’s demise have been greatly exaggerated, according to a 2025 survey of distributed energy and microgrid industry professionals. When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act became law in July 2025, many industry experts feared solar-heavy distributed energy development would dry up with the loss of federal incentives. While survey respondents (67%) say […]

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