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Where Money Flowed in the Electricity Sector Last Year

Last year clean energy spending remained flat, but grid investment was up 9.5%.

Elisa Wood
February 19, 2026
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Local  Energy Gains Stature in Climate Discussions

Solving climate issues with distributed energy makes even more sense following Trump’s rollback of the endangerment finding.

Elisa Wood
February 15, 2026
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Has This City Figured Out How to Unlock the Local Value of Distributed Energy?

Ithaca, NY approved a plan to decarbonize independently from the grid using DERs, energy sharing, and dividend-paying ownership shares to community members.

Elisa Wood
February 8, 2026
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New Jersey Utilities Must Show How They Will Support DERs, Improve Hosting Capacity

New Jersey utilities must show how they will support DERs within 30 days to help meet “unprecedented” load growth from data centers.

Elisa Wood
February 7, 2026
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How to Assure Your Data Center Will Make It Over the Finish Line

Getting your data center over the finish line becomes easier if you take these four steps to overcome energy supply hurdles.

Elisa Wood
February 1, 2026
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Distributed Energy Companies are Shape-Shifting

Distributed energy companies are shapeshifting as changing rules and growing markets create new opportunities.

Elisa Wood
January 31, 2026
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Microgrid and DER Developers Are Pursuing More Complex Projects to Overcome Loss of Federal Incentives

Microgrid and DER developers remain bullish about their market and see projects growing in complexity.

Elisa Wood
January 21, 2026
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Consumer Ownership of Local Energy: A New Take on How it Might Work

In a recent UC Berkeley paper, Keith Taylor proposes a form of local energy ownership beyond individual household solar.

Elisa Wood
January 18, 2026
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What is Speed to Power? And How Can Data Centers Achieve It?

Speed to power now permeates the data center and power industry’s lexicon and has become the metric by which all data center development is measured.

Anna Demeo
January 18, 2026
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Common Energy Planning Risks for Data Centers and How to Solve Them

Energy planning has emerged as a high-stakes discipline for data centers. Mistakes aren’t just expensive; they can delay or even derail data center projects.

Elisa Wood
January 16, 2026
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What If Electric Co-ops Came Together to Build the Distributed Grid?

Electric cooperatives already know how to federate for scale; Keith Taylor says the same model could accelerate microgrids, distributed energy and a more democratic grid.

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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

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 […]

Ultra-Reliable Onsite Generation How Enchanted Rock Delivers

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 […]

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