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Is Siloed Electric Grid Model Management Hurting Your Utility’s Bottom Line?

Network model management (NMM) overcomes the siloed approach that limits effective planning by electric utilities.

Energy Changemakers Content Services
May 12, 2025
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What Do All Big Power Outages Have in Common? A Big Grid

The Iberian Peninsula grid outage underscores the vulnerabilities of centralized grids and reinforces the need for more decentralized energy.

Elisa Wood
May 5, 2025
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Kūpono Solar Project In O’ahu, Hawaii. Courtesy of Ameresco

Coming Together to Build Energy Resilience

Partnerships among communities, utilities, and energy service providers offer a path to greater energy resilience. Here are examples.

Energy Changemakers Content Services
May 1, 2025
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How to Make Distributed Solar Projects Pencil without the Federal Tax Credit

Distributed solar can still offer an impressive return without the tax credit. But it requires some rethinking about how projects are structured.

Elisa Wood
April 18, 2025
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Strong, Weak and Mixed Signals for Clean and Distributed Energy

Clean and distributed energy came barreling out of 2024 with force. Now, they face walls. Do they have enough momentum to knock them down? Consider these signals.

Elisa Wood
April 13, 2025
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Solar on Wheels: How a Family-Run Startup is Transforming Driveways into Clean Power Stations

Gismo Power offers solar on wheels to take advantage of a vast untapped energy resource: our driveways.

Elisa Wood
April 4, 2025
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What Engineers and Manufacturers Don’t Like About the Electric Grid

Doors are opening for distributed energy resources as centralized electric grids falter.

Elisa Wood
March 29, 2025
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Distributed Energy Is Misunderstood and Underrepresented

Even green energy advocates sometimes don’t fully understand the role distributed energy resources play as grid and community assets.

Elisa Wood
March 21, 2025
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How Trump’s Policies May Buoy Renewables and Squash Fossils

Local energy can command a premium as nations are willing to pay more to secure supply, according to the Carlyle paper, The New Joule Order.

Elisa Wood
March 12, 2025
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Goodbye to Solar Plus Storage. Hello to Solar-led Electrification

A California study indicates that 65% grid defection with solar may be the best way to electrify a home.

Elisa Wood
March 4, 2025
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The Energy Changemakers Podcast, with host Elisa Wood, is available every other Wednesday on Apple and Spotify.

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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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