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The Power Industry’s Love/Hate Relationship with Data Centers

Data center guru Rich Miller interviews Elisa Wood about data centers and onsite power.

Elisa Wood
May 17, 2025
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Is Siloed Electric Grid Model Management Hurting Your Utility’s Bottom Line?

Network model management (NMM) overcomes the siloed approach that limits effective planning by electric utilities.

Energy Changemakers Content Services
May 12, 2025
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What Do All Big Power Outages Have in Common? A Big Grid

The Iberian Peninsula grid outage underscores the vulnerabilities of centralized grids and reinforces the need for more decentralized energy.

Elisa Wood
May 5, 2025
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Kūpono Solar Project In O’ahu, Hawaii. Courtesy of Ameresco

Coming Together to Build Energy Resilience

Partnerships among communities, utilities, and energy service providers offer a path to greater energy resilience. Here are examples.

Energy Changemakers Content Services
May 1, 2025
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How to Make Distributed Solar Projects Pencil without the Federal Tax Credit

Distributed solar can still offer an impressive return without the tax credit. But it requires some rethinking about how projects are structured.

Elisa Wood
April 18, 2025
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Strong, Weak and Mixed Signals for Clean and Distributed Energy

Clean and distributed energy came barreling out of 2024 with force. Now, they face walls. Do they have enough momentum to knock them down? Consider these signals.

Elisa Wood
April 13, 2025
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Credit: Gismo Power

Solar on Wheels: How a Family-Run Startup is Transforming Driveways into Clean Power Stations

Gismo Power offers solar on wheels to take advantage of a vast untapped energy resource: our driveways.

Elisa Wood
April 4, 2025
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What Engineers and Manufacturers Don’t Like About the Electric Grid

Doors are opening for distributed energy resources as centralized electric grids falter.

Elisa Wood
March 29, 2025
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Distributed Energy Is Misunderstood and Underrepresented

Even green energy advocates sometimes don’t fully understand the role distributed energy resources play as grid and community assets.

Elisa Wood
March 21, 2025
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How Trump’s Policies May Buoy Renewables and Squash Fossils

Local energy can command a premium as nations are willing to pay more to secure supply, according to the Carlyle paper, The New Joule Order.

Elisa Wood
March 12, 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 […]
Large Load Developers Becoming Their Own Power Suppliers

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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