Jigar Shah’s Surprising Stand on This Utility Program
Jigar Shah explains why he supports the Xcel Minnesota virtual power plant program in an Energy Changemakers Podcast.
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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%.
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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.
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Virginia Lawmakers Push for DERs — Not Just Big Power — to Meet New Energy Demand
Virginia energy policy may piece together a lot of small and medium-sized initiatives in hopes they all add up to enough to meet the moment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Energy Abundance Beyond Just Building More Stuff
The energy abundance agenda carries appeal. But achieving it on the complex electric grid will take more than just building more stuff.