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.
In a recent UC Berkeley paper, Keith Taylor proposes a form of local energy ownership beyond individual household solar.
Speed to power now permeates the data center and power industry’s lexicon and has become the metric by which all data center development is measured.
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.
The energy abundance agenda carries appeal. But achieving it on the complex electric grid will take more than just building more stuff.
Here is a list of the most popular articles and podcasts that ran on the Energy Changemakers platforms in 2025.
Energy supply shortages, utility rates, consumer concerns and tech trends conspire to make 2026 a big year for distributed energy.