California Voters Want More Control Over Their Energy, Poll Finds
Seventy percent of likely voters surveyed said they support using personal or community energy devices to lower their utility bills.
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Distributed Energy’s Economic Moment
The conversation shifted this year from what distributed energy can do to what it can save, as utility rates escalate.
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Your Home as a Power Plant — and Now a Data Center
Sunrun placing AI compute nodes in homes equipped with its solar and battery systems
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The 5 Freedoms of Distributed Energy
The US celebrated a big milestone, and so did Energy Changemakers. Here’s what we learned from 50 interviews.
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Onsite Power’s New Job Description
Once viewed as an insurance policy against outages, onsite power is becoming a business strategy to speed projects, lower costs and protect investment.
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An Irresistible Force Collides with an Immovable Object
Robert Cross of Outfit argues that distributed energy resources have become an “irresistible force” colliding with the “immovable object” of the traditional utility business model
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When It Comes to Electricity, Will We All Become Puerto Rico?
With its use of distributed power plants, the island offers a lesson on how the mainland grid can survive the age of AI.
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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.
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The Evolution of the Commercial & Industrial Microgrid in the Era of the Data Center
Many of the same forces driving data center growth are renewing interest in commercial and industrial microgrids for manufacturers, logistics hubs and other power-intensive businesses.
What Caught the Most Attention on Energy Changemakers Platforms in 2025?
Here is a list of the most popular articles and podcasts that ran on the Energy Changemakers platforms in 2025.