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Energy Changemakers Forms Partnership with The Current Marketing Agency

Energy Changemakers, a media platform and content creation service for the electric power industry, has formed a preferred vendor partnership with The Current Marketing Agency, a strategic marketing and creative firm serving the energy and utilities sector.

Energy Changemakers Content Services
February 8, 2026
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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.

Elisa Wood
February 8, 2026
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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.

Elisa Wood
February 7, 2026
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How to Assure Your Data Center Will Make It Over the Finish Line

Getting your data center over the finish line becomes easier if you take these four steps to overcome energy supply hurdles.

Elisa Wood
February 1, 2026
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Distributed Energy Companies are Shape-Shifting

Distributed energy companies are shapeshifting as changing rules and growing markets create new opportunities.

Elisa Wood
January 31, 2026
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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.

Elisa Wood
January 21, 2026
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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.

Elisa Wood
January 18, 2026
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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.

Anna Demeo
January 18, 2026
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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.

Elisa Wood
January 16, 2026
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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.

Elisa Wood
January 11, 2026
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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 […]

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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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