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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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Another Reason It’s a Bad Idea to Overhype How Much Energy AI Will Need

AI forecast hype could lead to overbuilding for tomorrow’s grid and neglecting electric reliability needs today.

Elisa Wood
July 13, 2025
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Grids Are the Center of Everything

What exactly is a digital grid? How does it play into the new world of data centers and prosumer energy?

Elisa Wood
July 9, 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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The Latest Version of the Big Beautiful Bill in One Chart

The US Senate Finance Committee released its version of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Monday, which goes easier on clean energy than the version passed by the House in May — but not by a lot.

Elisa Wood
June 18, 2025
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Check Out the Latest Energy Changemakers Podcast

Host Elisa Wood interviews energy innovators and leaders who are remaking the electric grid on the Energy Changemakers Podcast.

Elisa Wood
June 18, 2025
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AI, Data Center and Microgrid Experts to Gather in Bend, Oregon July 10

Great Transformation is a forum for professionals in data centers, AI and microgrids to exchange ideas that address energy challenges.

Energy Changemakers Content Services
June 16, 2025
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Building Grid Resilience through Partnerships

Achieving grid resilience requires new energy alliances.

Energy Changemakers Content Services
June 16, 2025
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A New Era of Energy Wealth

Defining energy wealth in an era of distributed energy requires looking at not only energy access but also energy ownership.

Elisa Wood
June 7, 2025
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How Energy Customers are Reshaping the Grid

Homeowners and businesses are investing in distributed energy for their own reasons and collectively—and maybe inadvertently—also rewiring how the entire electric system evolves.

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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 […]

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.

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 […]

2026 Market Survey: Microgrid and Distributed Energy Projects Grow in Complexity

Reports of distributed energy’s demise have been greatly exaggerated, according to a 2025 survey of distributed energy and microgrid industry professionals. When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act became law in July 2025, many industry experts feared solar-heavy distributed energy development would dry up with the loss of federal incentives. While survey respondents (67%) say […]

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