How Do Investors Evaluate AI in Clean Tech Startups in 2025?
Investors can take these steps to identify true AI innovation in clean tech startups offering virtual power plants and other tech-heavy applications.
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After a Banner Year, Distributed Solar Falters in New York
Distributed solar had a record-setting 2024. But 2025 looks far less promising, not just because of the Trump administration.
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How We Need to Think about AI Energy Demand Now
Tech journalist Rich Miller explains why the bears and the bulls may both be wrong about AI energy demand.
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How to Position Distributed Energy Now?
Trump’s energy emergency declaration tries to upend how the nation thinks and talks about energy. What happens to distributed energy in the upheaval?
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10 Intriguing Distributed Energy Projects & Plans to Watch in 2025
Hat’s off to the innovators, inventors, and risk-takers who are remaking the grid with distributed energy. Here are 10 projects we’re watching.
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3 Trends to Watch in 2025 if You’re on Team Distributed Energy
Energy Changemakers looks at 3 distributed energy trends to watch in 2025 that signal the the industry’s future.
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What 2025 Holds for Distributed Energy
Trouble and promise seem to characterize what’s ahead for distributed energy. So how should we approach 2025?
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Why So Many Industries Want to Own the Home Energy Management Market
The competition for dominance is just beginning as various industries enter the home energy management space.
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Five US States Now Ripe for Grid Defection: Study
Economic conditions are now favorable for grid defection by electricity customers in five US states. Will they actually go off grid?
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.