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Utility corruption impedes energy innovation
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Is Utility Corruption Impeding Energy Innovation?

Activist and author Dick Munson explains how utility corruption impedes energy innovation, a conclusion from his new book, Power Corrupts: Cleaning Up America’s Biggest Industry

Elisa Wood
September 26, 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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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.

May 27, 2025
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Go, Louisiana! ACEEE Releases 2025 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard

California and Massachusetts again topped the ACEEE energy efficiency scorecard, while Louisiana made big strides.

Elisa Wood
March 22, 2025
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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.

Elisa Wood
March 21, 2025
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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.

Elisa Wood
February 6, 2025
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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?

Elisa Wood
January 25, 2025
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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.

Elisa Wood
January 19, 2025
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What 2025 Holds for Distributed Energy

Trouble and promise seem to characterize what’s ahead for distributed energy. So how should we approach 2025?

Elisa Wood
December 22, 2024
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Why So Many Industries Want to Own the Home Energy Management Market

The competition for dominance is just beginning as various industries enter the home energy management space.

Anna Demeo
December 12, 2024
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Can Better Energy Choices Reverse the Data Center Backlash?

After decades covering data centers, journalist Rich Miller sees an industry struggling with public opposition, enormous energy demands and a growing realization that local energy may be part of the solution.

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About Energy ChangemakersEnergy Changemakers is a journalist-led media and content platform built exclusively for the distributed energy and grid-edge market. At its core, the company operates at the intersection of: Our mission is to Educate. Elevate. Amplify.

How Supercaps Can Help Solve the Geopolitical Challenge of Battery Over Deployments

The speed-to-power movement is driving decision-making in the data center industry as it searches for near-term solutions to its power supply needs. The inability of many utilities and wholesale market control areas to bring new capacity on-line in a timely manner has prompted many data centers to go behind-the-meter (BTM) and create microgrids and other […]
Large Load Developers Becoming Their Own Power Suppliers

When the Grid Can’t Keep Up

Headlines are everywhere about the electric grid straining under a surge in demand from data centers and other large loads. But the more urgent story is: How can the grid evolve to meet this new demand at speed?

Ultra-Reliable Onsite Generation: How Enchanted Rock Delivers

Many organizations are reassessing how they approach electric power. If the grid cannot deliver the reliability — or even the access — modern operations require, what alternatives provide resilience without compromising environmental performance or community well-being?

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