The Power Industry’s Love/Hate Relationship with Data Centers
Data center guru Rich Miller interviews Elisa Wood about data centers and onsite power.
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Is Siloed Electric Grid Model Management Hurting Your Utility’s Bottom Line?
Network model management (NMM) overcomes the siloed approach that limits effective planning by electric utilities.
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What Do All Big Power Outages Have in Common? A Big Grid
The Iberian Peninsula grid outage underscores the vulnerabilities of centralized grids and reinforces the need for more decentralized energy.
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Coming Together to Build Energy Resilience
Partnerships among communities, utilities, and energy service providers offer a path to greater energy resilience. Here are examples.
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How to Make Distributed Solar Projects Pencil without the Federal Tax Credit
Distributed solar can still offer an impressive return without the tax credit. But it requires some rethinking about how projects are structured.
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Strong, Weak and Mixed Signals for Clean and Distributed Energy
Clean and distributed energy came barreling out of 2024 with force. Now, they face walls. Do they have enough momentum to knock them down? Consider these signals.
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Solar on Wheels: How a Family-Run Startup is Transforming Driveways into Clean Power Stations
Gismo Power offers solar on wheels to take advantage of a vast untapped energy resource: our driveways.
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What Engineers and Manufacturers Don’t Like About the Electric Grid
Doors are opening for distributed energy resources as centralized electric grids falter.
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Distributed Energy Is Misunderstood and Underrepresented
Even green energy advocates sometimes don’t fully understand the role distributed energy resources play as grid and community assets.
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Goodbye to Solar Plus Storage. Hello to Solar-led Electrification
A California study indicates that 65% grid defection with solar may be the best way to electrify a home.