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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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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Distributed Energy Companies are Shape-Shifting
Distributed energy companies are shapeshifting as changing rules and growing markets create new opportunities.
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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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What is Speed to Power? And How Can Data Centers Achieve It?
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.
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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.
What Caught the Most Attention on Energy Changemakers Platforms in 2025?
Here is a list of the most popular articles and podcasts that ran on the Energy Changemakers platforms in 2025.