2025 was a record year for distributed energy policy, with states accelerating action on solar, storage, EVs, and resilience. New Pew data shows just how widespread the shift has become.
What is the distributed energy forecast for 2026? A mix of survival and gold-rush fever as incentives disappear, but demand for energy surges.
Here is a list of the most popular articles and podcasts that ran on the Energy Changemakers platforms in 2025.
New York-based EnergyHub, which offers a distributed energy management resources platform, has acquired Resideo Grid Services, a virtual power plant developer and manager. The companies say the acquisition reflects a growing industry shift toward a single integrated distributed energy resource management system platform for utilities to manage virtual power plants (VPPs) that include EVs, batteries, […]
The Big Beautiful Bill may inadvertently accelerate off-grid power, microgrids and other forms of distributed energy.
Microgrids have always been hard to define succinctly because they are not really just one thing. They can morph to serve a variety of energy needs. Veteran energy journalists Lisa Cohn and Peter Asmus describe how they’ve evolved.
This white paper examines how
successful partnerships among communities, utilities, and energy service providers can improve the grid
and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
Rory McIlmoil, a researcher at NREL and a local volunteer firefighter, found himself cleaning up from Hurricane Helene and thinking about how much easier it would be with a microgrid.
This white paper is the fourth in a series of seven white papers in support of the DOE Microgrid R&D Program and presents a broad vision for future grids where microgrids serve as a building block along with technologies that would need to be developed, use case scenarios and the research targets. The DOE Microgrid […]
What are microgrids now? By definition, microgrids have not changed, but their value proposition is evolving with the times.