Microgrids Aren’t What They Used To Be
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2025
- How to Speed Microgrid Development for Data Centers
- Jim Mozell, senior director of strategic partnerships at Siemens Energy, and Juan Colina, data center and IT segment leader at Eaton
- What It Really Takes to Make a Customer-Centric Electricity System
- Bruce Nordman, Retired Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Less Waste, More Productivity: An Economist’s Take on Our Energy Dilemma
- International energy economist, Skip Laitner
- Is Small Town America Ready for Climate Migration?
- Hillary Brown, author of Revitalize Resettle: How Main Street USA Can Offer New Beginnings for America’s Climate Displaced
- Maximizing the Value of Your Molecule: An Interview with Mark Feasel
- Mark Feasel, founder & principal consultant, VisRete
- Grids Are the Center of Everything
- Ruben Llanes, CEO of the Digital Grid Business at Schneider Electric
- How Can Microgrids Achieve the Holy Grail of Scalability?
- Alok Singhania, Senior Partner at Gridscape
- DERs and the Abundance Agenda: What Comes After Federal Funding Falls Short
- Tim Hade, co-founder of Scale Microgrids
- Microgrids Aren’t What They Used To Be
- Journalists Lisa Cohn and Peter Asmus
- The Battle for the Grid: How the Public Can Regain Control of Electricity
- Sandeep Vaheesan, author of Democracy in Power
- US Political Parties Agree on One Thing: Utility Bills
- Charles Hua, founder and executive director of PowerLines
- How to Make Distributed Solar Projects Pencil without the Federal Tax Credit
- Gareth Evans, CEO of VECKTA
- Solar on Wheels – How a Family-Run Startup is Transforming Driveways into Clean Power Stations
- Antonia Ginsberg-Klemmt, CEO, electrical engineer Achim Ginsberg-Klemmt and operations specialist Erika Ginsberg-Klemmt.
- Distributed Energy Is Misunderstood and Underrepresented. What Do We Do About It?
- Erika Ginsberg-Klemmt, vice president of operations, Gizmo Power
- Bill Prindle, principal, Better Energy Advisors
- Lorenzo Kristov, grid architect
- Cameron Brooks, policy advisor, E9 Insights
- What it Took to Build one of the US’ Largest Community Choice Aggregations
- Cody Hooven, principal and co-founder of Evolution Affairs
- How Should the Power Industry Think about the DeepSeek Announcement?
- Rich Miller, former editor and founder of Data Center Knowledge and Data Center Frontier
- What Utilities and DER Companies Don’t Get about Each Other Part 2
- Bill Prindle, principal of Better Energy Advisors
- Equal Pay for Equal Work: Treating Energy Efficiency Fairly in Wholesale Capacity Markets
- Paula Glover, president of the Alliance to Save Energy
2024
- Incorporating Non-Energy Benefits in Energy Planning: A Path Forward
- Roger Lin, Senior Attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity
- Why this Energy Changemaker is Trying to Bring Community Choice Energy to Arizona
- Russell Lowes from Arizonans for Community Choice
- Off Grid and Urban: An Apartment Building that Signals the Future
- Steve Pullins, CEO of ResSET
- Making the Crush of Utility Data Usable: Awesense
- CEO and Founder Mischa Steiner
- What Utilities and DER Companies Don’t Get about Each Other – Part 1
- Bill Prindle, principal of Better Energy Advisors
- An Entrepreneur’s Journey from Russia and Oil to the US and Clean Energy: Lumin
- Alex Bazhinov, Lumin
- A Campaign to Create a Distributed Energy Utility in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Missy Stults, Ann Arbor’s Sustainability and Innovations Director
- The Economics of Community Solar: How Profits are Made and Consumer Energy Costs Lowered
- Rob Hong of Sapling Financial Consultants
- Are We Expecting Too Much from Virtual Power Plants?
- Lorenzo Kristov, Kay Aikin, and Mark Paterson
- What’s Next for Community Solar?
- Nate Owen, CEO of Ampion
