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Is Small Town America Ready for Climate Migration?

As climate migration drives up population in America’s heartland, small towns will need more clean distributed energy resources (DERs).

Elisa Wood
August 10, 2025
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What the Electric Grid and Beaches Have in Common. It’s Not Good

Grid connections are now akin to oceanfront property — precious and expensive — as AI increases demand for power.

Elisa Wood
July 26, 2025
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Energy Solutions for Data Centers Aren’t Always Obvious. Take These Ideas.

Data center and distributed energy experts gathered on July 10 in Bend, Oregon, to explore energy innovations.

Lisa Cohn
July 19, 2025
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Grids Are the Center of Everything

What exactly is a digital grid? How does it play into the new world of data centers and prosumer energy?

Elisa Wood
July 9, 2025
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Energy Trends Inadvertently Unleashed by the Big Beautiful Bill

The Big Beautiful Bill may inadvertently accelerate off-grid power, microgrids and other forms of distributed energy.

Elisa Wood
July 5, 2025
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Lower or Higher Prices for Renewable Energy in 2025?

If you’re confused about contradictory trends in renewable energy pricing, get ready. It may soon get worse.

Peter Asmus
June 19, 2025
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AI, Data Center and Microgrid Experts to Gather in Bend, Oregon July 10

Great Transformation is a forum for professionals in data centers, AI and microgrids to exchange ideas that address energy challenges.

Energy Changemakers Content Services
June 16, 2025
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A New Era of Energy Wealth

Defining energy wealth in an era of distributed energy requires looking at not only energy access but also energy ownership.

Elisa Wood
June 7, 2025
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Alaska Forges New Ground with Innovative Non-Profit Independent Power Producer Model

Most independent power producers (IPPs) generate profit for private shareholders. But that’s not always so in Alaska where a non-profit IPP model generates revenue for communities and tribes.

Peter Asmus
May 28, 2025
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Energy Allies: Communities and Utilities Building Resilience Together

This white paper examines how
successful partnerships among communities, utilities, and energy service providers can improve the grid
and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

May 27, 2025
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Can Better Energy Choices Reverse the Data Center Backlash?

After decades covering data centers, journalist Rich Miller sees an industry struggling with public opposition, enormous energy demands and a growing realization that local energy may be part of the solution.

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How Supercaps Can Help Solve the Geopolitical Challenge of Battery Over Deployments

The speed-to-power movement is driving decision-making in the data center industry as it searches for near-term solutions to its power supply needs. The inability of many utilities and wholesale market control areas to bring new capacity on-line in a timely manner has prompted many data centers to go behind-the-meter (BTM) and create microgrids and other […]
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When the Grid Can’t Keep Up

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?

Ultra-Reliable Onsite Generation: How Enchanted Rock Delivers

Many organizations are reassessing how they approach electric power. If the grid cannot deliver the reliability — or even the access — modern operations require, what alternatives provide resilience without compromising environmental performance or community well-being?

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