3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (14+ words) Front-of-meter solar, storage could serve 32% of California’s 2032 peak load: study Utility Dive...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (519+ words) Load is growing again for the first time in two decades. Data centers, electrification, heat. The two traditional answers, more generation and more network, both arrive with a queue attached: the median wait from interconnection request to switch-on now runs…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (416+ words) Image created using AI Google Gemini The rapid emergence of AI is changing that equation. Traditional data centers typically consumed power at a steady rate. Thousands of small IT loads smoothed out variations, allowing planners to model facilities using static…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (953+ words) Deep-pocketed tech companies and mission‑critical defense customers are emerging as the earliest adopters of advanced reactors, but utilities see potential if cost recovery issues can be resolved. Advanced nuclear developers are pitching small modular reactors and microreactors as firm,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (586+ words) The Aug. 26 executive order, previous executive actions and the Treasury Department’s Foreign Entity of Concern guidance are likely to hit battery and inverter supply chains particularly hard. Trump’s executive order seeks to prevent certain foreign-made batteries, transformers, inverters and related…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (439+ words) Drew Baglino is founder and CEO of Heron Power; Vlad Troy is vice president of AI infrastructure at NVIDIA; Michael Polsky is founder and executive chairman of Invenergy; and Varun Sivaram is founder and CEO of Emerald AI. Events like…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (578+ words) Manufacturers say the changes would create a more predictable process to set appliance standards but should not “apply retroactively to standards already finalized.” The Trump administration’s proposed changes to how appliance energy efficiency standards are updated has drawn arguments around…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (414+ words) The state alleges the Trump administration “abuses its authority” by diminishing the value of offshore wind energy leases before it makes an “unrefusable offer” to developers. California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission filed a lawsuit Friday…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (666+ words) The same capabilities that make drones operationally valuable for utilities also make them effective tools for threat actors, writes SkySafe Chief Revenue Officer Melissa Swisher. Melissa Swisher is chief revenue officer at SkySafe, a provider of airspace intelligence. In recent…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (561+ words) The new demand response frameworks bring the state in line with other pay-for-performance virtual power plants while keeping NV Energy in the driver’s seat. The Grid Services Rider tariffs will replace a narrower demand response framework that has been on…...