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

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

AAAS: "Proposed new satellite fleets could overwhelm the night sky." Orbiting data centers + sunlight reflectors would ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past decade, regulators have pushed utilities to justify capital plans in terms of risk. In California, the Public ...

The agency has proposed scrapping its public input requirement for “minor source” air permits…which include the tractor trailer-sized diesel generators that data centers use for backup ...