Wildfires are systemic reliability challenge that requires high-resolution environmental planning to stay ahead of stay ahead of both the flames and the financial risk. Hotter temperatures and longer ...

Santa Fe County is studying whether to create a publicly owned utility. (Santa Fe New Mexican) Commissioners approved a resolution to fund a feasibility study, exploring models such as a co-op or ...

VPP participation jumped 400% annually, with 106K+ homes now enrolled in Sunrun’s VPP programs nationwide. Battery attachment rates hit 70% among new customers in Q3, up 60% in the last year, pushing ...

Federal officials are weighing whether to invoke emergency powers that would force Xcel Energy’s Comanche 2 and Tri-State’s Craig 1 coal units to stay online beyond their planned 2025 retirements. Tri ...

Maine’s community solar boom has rewritten the state’s energy landscape, but the success comes with growing pains. (WMTV) Net energy billing has scaled from 17 MW of solar in 2015 to more than 1,600 ...

Pennsylvania is backing out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, ending a six-year fight over whether the state would ever join. (Inside Climate News) Lawmakers folded the withdrawal into a must ...

Massachusetts lawmakers are advancing a bill that would pull back major pieces of the state’s 2030 climate plan in the name of affordability. (Rhode Island Current) The proposal would make the 2030 ...

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With America’s grid running into a capacity wall, DOE is leaning on grid-enhancing technologies to squeeze more capacity out of today’s wires without waiting a decade for new transmission. (DOE) ...

Could not resist this cartoon by Tom Toro this morning. Crushed for time, will just drop in this witty single panel, all the time I have. My motivation is also based on the fact that there is a ...

Congressional Democrats are pressing the White House to explain how it plans to curb rising electricity costs tied to the data center boom. (WSJ) The group is criticizing tech giants like Meta, OpenAI ...

The electricity pricing model was created and very successful (for about a century) for firm, "centralised" generation, mainly hydroelectric and thermal. Recently, important changes have occurred.