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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What Fleet Owners Don’t Get About Electrification
Fleet electrification can lower transportation costs for businesses and institutions. It can also create some headaches if early steps aren’t done correctly.
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Massachusetts Bill Would Make DERS 20% of Supply, Create Solar and VPP Programs
Two state lawmakers have proposed a host of programs to boost distributed energy in Massachusetts.
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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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Hey DOGE! What About Energy Efficiency?
The Trump administration’s DOGE says it’s about efficiency, but apparently not energy efficiency.
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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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The Electric Grid is No Longer a Natural Monopoly: California
The electric grid is no longer a natural monopoly and those who think so are “out of step with technical and commercial reality,” said a group of organizations who recently filed comments in the California Public Utilities Commission’s Future Grid Study.