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How Unified Network Models Drive Compliance, Reliability and Distributed Energy Readiness

Utility network model management creates centralized master network models for transmission and distribution grids.

Energy Changemakers Content Services
September 4, 2025
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What Elephants, Mice and Distributed Energy Have in Common

Are we focusing too much on energy supply and not enough on energy productivity?

Elisa Wood
August 22, 2025
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Is Small Town America Ready for Climate Migration?

As climate migration drives up population in America’s heartland, small towns will need more clean distributed energy resources (DERs).

Elisa Wood
August 10, 2025
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Why Your Electricity Bill Is So High

The good news is that renewables have been the biggest—and cheapest—sources of new power on the U.S. grid.. The bad news is that federal support has eroded.

Guest Contributor
August 2, 2025
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Another Reason It’s a Bad Idea to Overhype How Much Energy AI Will Need

AI forecast hype could lead to overbuilding for tomorrow’s grid and neglecting electric reliability needs today.

Elisa Wood
July 13, 2025
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Energy Trends Inadvertently Unleashed by the Big Beautiful Bill

The Big Beautiful Bill may inadvertently accelerate off-grid power, microgrids and other forms of distributed energy.

Elisa Wood
July 5, 2025
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Lower or Higher Prices for Renewable Energy in 2025?

If you’re confused about contradictory trends in renewable energy pricing, get ready. It may soon get worse.

Peter Asmus
June 19, 2025
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The Latest Version of the Big Beautiful Bill in One Chart

The US Senate Finance Committee released its version of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Monday, which goes easier on clean energy than the version passed by the House in May — but not by a lot.

Elisa Wood
June 18, 2025
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A New Era of Energy Wealth

Defining energy wealth in an era of distributed energy requires looking at not only energy access but also energy ownership.

Elisa Wood
June 7, 2025
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Pursuing Energy Democracy from the Bottom Up and the Top Down

Sandeep Vaheesan, author of Democracy in Power, sees grassroots frustration with the status quo invigorating public interest in energy democracy.

Elisa Wood
May 17, 2025
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2026 Market Survey: Microgrid and Distributed Energy Projects Grow in Complexity

Reports of distributed energy’s demise have been greatly exaggerated, according to a 2025 survey of distributed energy and microgrid industry professionals. When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act became law in July 2025, many industry experts feared solar-heavy distributed energy development would dry up with the loss of federal incentives. While survey respondents (67%) say […]
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Energy Allies: Communities and Utilities Building Resilience Together

This white paper examines how successful partnerships among communities, utilities, and energy service providers can improve the grid and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
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Microgrids as a Building Block for Future Grids

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 […]
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Utility Bills are Rising: PowerLines

New polling by PowerLines, a nonpartisan consumer education nonprofit, reveals the toll of rising utility bills on American energy consumers.

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