At its most basic, AI is not human; it’s electrons. Pull the plug, and it’s gone. Obviously, no one is pulling any plugs. But the power industry can – and is – starting to pull some levers.
Resilience Energy is betting that a new kind of long-term energy contract can turn home solar and batteries into capacity for data centers — without asking households to buy the equipment themselves.
Seventy percent of likely voters surveyed said they support using personal or community energy devices to lower their utility bills.
The conversation shifted this year from what distributed energy can do to what it can save, as utility rates escalate.
Sunrun placing AI compute nodes in homes equipped with its solar and battery systems
The US celebrated a big milestone, and so did Energy Changemakers. Here’s what we learned from 50 interviews.
Once viewed as an insurance policy against outages, onsite power is becoming a business strategy to speed projects, lower costs and protect investment.
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
With its use of distributed power plants, the island offers a lesson on how the mainland grid can survive the age of AI.
In a recent UC Berkeley paper, Keith Taylor proposes a form of local energy ownership beyond individual household solar.