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What the Electric Grid and Beaches Have in Common. It’s Not Good

Grid connections are now akin to oceanfront property — precious and expensive — as AI increases demand for power.

Elisa Wood
July 26, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Microgrids as a Building Block for Future Grids

This white paper is the fourth in a series of seven white papers in support of the DOE Microgrid R&D Program and presents a broad vision for future grids where microgrids serve as a building block along with technologies that would need to be developed, use case scenarios and the research targets. The DOE Microgrid […]
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Utility Bills are Rising: PowerLines

New polling by PowerLines, a nonpartisan consumer education nonprofit, reveals the toll of rising utility bills on American energy consumers.

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