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Microgrid Knowledge Conference 2025: Pioneering the Future of Distributed Energy

The Microgrid Knowledge Conference 2025 is set to convene from April 15 to 17 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

Elisa Wood
January 15, 2024
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Here’s Why It’s Still Hard for Your Solar Panels to Earn Revenue in US Wholesale Power Markets

FERC Order 2222 doesn’t remove all of the barriers to aggregated DERs, according to a new Guidehouse white paper.

Elisa Wood
January 14, 2024
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After We Ditch the Gas Pipes, What Then?

How non-pipeline alternatives create opportunities for distributed energy resources

Elisa Wood
January 8, 2024
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10 Intriguing Distributed Energy Projects to Watch in 2024

Ameresco, Arc Motor Company, ARENA, Community Electricity, CPower, Google, Intellihub, Maine, NYSERDA, OhmConnect, Pennsylvania Turnpike and Sunnova made this year’s list.

Elisa Wood
January 2, 2024
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Maine Issues RFP in Next Step Toward Distribution System Operator (DSO)

If Maine goes forward with the DSO, it will be the first US state to do so.

Elisa Wood
January 1, 2024
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Is There an Easier Way to Create Public Power Utilities?

Does public power’s defeat in Maine mean it’s a fool’s errand? Or is there another way to create community-owned utilities? Take a look at what’s happening in California with targeted public power.

Elisa Wood
December 7, 2023
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What if We Decarbonized the Grid from the Bottom Up?

A coalition of clean energy groups argue that adding solar to rooftops would move California more quickly to 100% renewables than building large land-based projects.

Elisa Wood
November 19, 2023
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Who’s Who in Distributed Energy

Distributed energy folks don’t often find themselves on the same list as Billie Eilish and MrBeast, but here they are.

Elisa Wood
November 19, 2023
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Will Maine Show the Rest of the US How to Open the Door to Distributed Energy?

Distributed energy supporters have floated the DSO concept for years, but no state has yet to brave its complexity. Enter Maine.

Elisa Wood
November 14, 2023
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Five Big Ideas Out of Dervos 2023

Dervos 2023 stimulated some of the most thought-provoking discussion about distributed energy I’ve heard at a conference. Here are a few (of many) big ideas floated at the event hosted by the DER Task Force last week in Brooklyn, NY.

Elisa Wood
November 14, 2023
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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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