Ithaca, NY approved a plan to decarbonize independently from the grid using DERs, energy sharing, and dividend-paying ownership shares to community members.
New Jersey utilities must show how they will support DERs within 30 days to help meet “unprecedented” load growth from data centers.
Distributed energy companies are shapeshifting as changing rules and growing markets create new opportunities.
Microgrid and DER developers remain bullish about their market and see projects growing in complexity.
The energy abundance agenda carries appeal. But achieving it on the complex electric grid will take more than just building more stuff.
Energy supply shortages, utility rates, consumer concerns and tech trends conspire to make 2026 a big year for distributed energy.
Permit Power’s Nick Josefowitz explains how to reduce solar soft costs by tackling the red tape discouraging American households from installing rooftop solar.
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Camus Energy, encoord, and Princeton University’s ZERO Lab offer data centers a two-part solution to the current, frustrating process of “build first, connect later.”
A new FERC proceeding reveals distributed energy’s growing role easing pressure on an oversubscribed transmission system.