The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday (Mar. 19) spent a good portion of its monthly meeting discussing a notational order issued six days before, unanimously blessing a plan by the ...

Since 2018, 25 utilities across 19 states have crafted new tariffs for data centers. Their biggest win? Nailing ratepayer protection. The tariffs come with an average demand ratchet of 79%, a new ...

Federal funding programs are accelerating transmission upgrades - and creating opportunities for advanced conductors, grid-enhancing technologies, and digital grid platforms. I feel like we’ve been ...

At a recent meeting of C-level power industry executives, the term AI Enabled Humans was presented as a way of answering the question, “Will AI take over my job?”. I really love the term because it ...

Want to go off-grid without sacrificing the grid’s comforts? Try Klumpen, a solar-powered teepee that substitutes your entire utility hookup—it’ll only run you $35,000. And if you want to settle in on ...

The good news? Battery costs have dropped by approximately 50% since 2020, making energy storage increasingly accessible to average households. Government subsidies and incentives further accelerate ...

That is not an engineering story. It is a commercial signal. Vertiv's stock dropped the day AWS announced the IRHX. That tells you everything about what this market understands: when a hyperscaler ...

Oklo nabbed its first NRC license—but it’s not the one investors are waiting for. (Barron’s) The license covers Atomic Alchemy, Oklo’s radioisotope production subsidiary. It clears that side of the ...

Facility managers today face a growing list of responsibilities—energy efficiency, operational reliability, safety, and cost control. As buildings and critical infrastructure become more sophisticated ...

Utility Vegetation Management (UVM) has become one of the most complex and scrutinized aspects of utility operations. Once treated as a cyclical, predictable line item, UVM now represents one of the ...

The leapfrogging of tech accomplished with telecom in developing regions going straight to cell phones is a good proxy for what can be done with newly electrifying ...

The GridWise Alliance’s recent paper, AI and the Grid: Unlocking the Potential of Artificial Intelligence for Electric Utilities, arrives at an important moment for the electric power industry. As ...