EIA: "The 250-year history of U.S. energy consumption." Only appropriate after the recent celebration of the ...

When discussing BESS safety, most attention is given to thermal runaway, fire suppression, flammable gas management, and ...

Everybody’s talking about the grid operator’s connect-and-manage framework. How it works: Resources don’t have to wait for the transmission upgrades required for “full deliverability.” ...

AAAS: "Proposed new satellite fleets could overwhelm the night sky." Orbiting data centers + sunlight reflectors would severely degrade astronomy by leaving streaks on telescope images + brightening ...

Global capacity is projected to rise by 44% over the next decade and reach 535 GW, thanks in part to rapid buildouts in India and China. The latter is set to eclipse the US and become the ...

Sunrun wants to tap its 1.1M customers to offer extra compute power to AI developers. How? The company is testing compute nodes in homes with its solar and battery systems and selling that ...

What’s the hold-up? That figure is included in the draft of the DOE’s latest National Transmission Needs Study, which breaks down line constraints and traffic jams throughout the country. What’s ...

Improving Wind Farm Reliability with AI-Driven Drone Inspections Wind power's growth has been hard to miss lately it's one of the fastest-expanding renewable sources out there, giving utilities and ...

Over the past decade, regulators have pushed utilities to justify capital plans in terms of risk. In California, the Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) formalized this approach through its Risk ...

For decades, utility inspection meant one of two options: expensive helicopter flyovers or slow, risky ground and climbing crews. Neither scales well against today's grid reliability demands, and ...

Last week’s heat dome had the power system working overtime: Electrical output surpassed 100K GWh…for the first time in history, EEI reported. (The previous record: >99K GWh in July ...

The vast majority of companies and institutions have become "free-market" energy consumers in Brazil. As such, they receive two bills: one for the energy itself and one for grid usage (transmission ...