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The Problem with Distributed Energy: How a New Coalition Hopes to Solve it

Common Charge hopes to create a unified voice for the multiple industries that make up the distributed energy sector.

Elisa Wood
November 16, 2025
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What’s Next for Distributed Energy?

Energy Changemakers, Factor This Renewables, and Xendee are conducting a microgrid survey and welcome your input.

Energy Changemakers Content Services
October 29, 2025
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The Energy Transition’s Sobering Present and Where to Go Next

Headwinds and tailwinds have left the energy transition pulled in two different directions. What can get it going the right way? And why is distributed energy well-positioned?

Elisa Wood
October 26, 2025
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Your House Could Solve the AI Energy Problem

Virtual power plants and electrification offer ways to meet electric demand from AI.

Elisa Wood
October 2, 2025
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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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Electrotech Reinvents the Energy Transition

Introduced by Ember, the term electrotech offers a more effective way to quantify the energy transition.

Elisa Wood
September 21, 2025
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Brooklyn Navy Yard Sees Virtual Power Plant Potential in its EV Charger Plan

The RFP seeks to lease outdoor parking spaces at the Navy Yard for the installation, maintenance and operation of electric vehicle charging stations.

Elisa Wood
July 19, 2025
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Energy Solutions for Data Centers Aren’t Always Obvious. Take These Ideas.

Data center and distributed energy experts gathered on July 10 in Bend, Oregon, to explore energy innovations.

Lisa Cohn
July 19, 2025
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Energy Trends Inadvertently Unleashed by the Big Beautiful Bill

The Big Beautiful Bill may inadvertently accelerate off-grid power, microgrids and other forms of distributed energy.

Elisa Wood
July 5, 2025
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Lower or Higher Prices for Renewable Energy in 2025?

If you’re confused about contradictory trends in renewable energy pricing, get ready. It may soon get worse.

Peter Asmus
June 19, 2025
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What If Electric Co-ops Came Together to Build the Distributed Grid?

Electric cooperatives already know how to federate for scale; Keith Taylor says the same model could accelerate microgrids, distributed energy and a more democratic grid.

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Energy Changemakers Media Kit – The Voice of Distributed Energy

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

Why Large-Load Developers Are BecomingTheir Own Power Suppliers 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? Utility and regional grid planning efforts often take years […]

Ultra-Reliable Onsite Generation How Enchanted Rock Delivers

For decades, commercial and industrial facilities operated under a simple assumption: electricity service was readily available and highly reliable. Backup generators were installedprimarily to meet regulatory requirements or protect against rare emergencies. Today, that assumption is becoming less certain. The US grid is under mounting pressure from severe weather, aging infrastructure, and rapid growth in […]

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