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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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Source: Northwest Arctic Borough

Alaska Forges New Ground with Innovative Non-Profit Independent Power Producer Model

Most independent power producers (IPPs) generate profit for private shareholders. But that’s not always so in Alaska where a non-profit IPP model generates revenue for communities and tribes.

Peter Asmus
May 28, 2025
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Energy Allies: Communities and Utilities Building Resilience Together

This white paper examines how
successful partnerships among communities, utilities, and energy service providers can improve the grid
and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

May 27, 2025
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Disaster Where a Microgrid Expert Lives

Rory McIlmoil, a researcher at NREL and a local volunteer firefighter, found himself cleaning up from Hurricane Helene and thinking about how much easier it would be with a microgrid.

Elisa Wood
May 23, 2025
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The Power Industry’s Love/Hate Relationship with Data Centers

Data center guru Rich Miller interviews Elisa Wood about data centers and onsite power.

Elisa Wood
May 17, 2025
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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 […]
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When the Grid Can’t Keep Up

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?

Ultra-Reliable Onsite Generation: How Enchanted Rock Delivers

Many organizations are reassessing how they approach electric power. If the grid cannot deliver the reliability — or even the access — modern operations require, what alternatives provide resilience without compromising environmental performance or community well-being?

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