A group of Ann Arbor residents are taking the first steps toward removing DTE Energy as their electrical provider and creating a public electric utility board.| Latest Renewable Energy Updates, Trends & Insights
A project run by Eaton and NREL has developed a tool that can detect powerline faults otherwise difficult to detect, enabling utility companies to reduce the chance of both power outages and wildfires.| Latest Renewable Energy Updates, Trends & Insights
It's only been a few weeks since the Trump administration and Missouri Republicans killed the Grain Belt Express transmission line, but it's already clear rates will go up.| Latest Renewable Energy Updates, Trends & Insights
The 2025 West Coast Utility Best Practices Symposium showcased how sharing best practices and insights can cultivate a more resilient grid.| Latest Renewable Energy Updates, Trends & Insights
Ayr Energy offers products including power and distribution transformers, high-voltage circuit breakers, and medium-voltage switchgear.| Renewable Energy Business & Market Trends
As Michigan Lawmakers work to court data centers through tax incentives, Consumers Energy, one of the state’s largest energy providers, is seeking to tweak its rate requirements for businesses using large amounts of energy over time, citing increasing requests for service from these types of facilities.| Power Grid: Transmission & Modernization
PJM Interconnection has overseen two record-breaking capacity auctions, leading to costs that get passed on to consumers.| Power Grid: Transmission & Modernization
GridX will add meter-level forecasting capabilities that directly inform rate design and analysis, improving pricing strategies.| Power Grid: Transmission & Modernization
An ESIG report highlights why traditional approaches to long-term load and DER forecasting need to evolve to support the modern grid.| Power Grid: Transmission & Modernization
Utility engineers and asset managers must determine the most economically viable path when transformers require attention.| Power Grid: Transmission & Modernization
Legal scholars suggest revisiting a core tenet of electricity regulations and taking cues from how officials manage scarce resources such as water in the West.| Power Grid: Transmission & Modernization
Public meetings are planned in Idaho this fall, with written comments on the 13% rate increase due by Nov. 20.| Power Grid: Transmission & Modernization
Itron's Nick Tumilowicz asserts a need for an integrated approach to grid management that processes and acts on real-time data at the edge.| Factor This™
There’s been a lot of buzz about the impact of data centers on electricity demand–CUB Illinois Executive Director Sarah Moskowitz recently spoke at length about it on a Chicago radio station. This Q&A attempts to get through the hype and give Illinois consumers some facts. What are data centers? A data center is a facility that houses computer systems used for storing, processing and distributing data. A growing number of these facilities are used to power artificial intelligence. A r...| Citizens Utility Board
Analysis shows that California’s statewide distributed power plant program can provide net savings to consumers of up to $206 million over the next 3 years by tapping into home battery storage.| Factor This™
The needs of data centers for AI and digital services are transforming power planning. To dive deeper into this theme, we interviewed Raymond Hawkins, Chief Customer Officer at Compass Datacenters, one of the keynote panelists at DTECH Data Centers and AI.| Factor This™
Opponents of the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project have accused the company of engaging in scare tactics.| Factor This™
Transmission constraints are acknowledged as the biggest barrier to wind power development on both sides of the Atlantic. There is a simple solution though with grid enhancing technologies that can get more out of less, writes Ampacimon's Alexandre Baré.| Wind Power: Turbines, Wind Farms & Innovations
As we scale fleet electrification, optimizing the interplay between microgrids and fleet charging with advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and grid edge intelligence will be essential, writes Itron's Nick Tumilowicz.| Power Grid: Transmission & Modernization
The Montana Public Service Commission will be scheduling a meeting soon to gather information on data centers following a series of recent announcements.| Factor This™
(The Center Square) – Entergy Louisiana is asking state regulators to fast-track approval for a massive power supply project to support a Meta data center in Richland Parish, including three new gas-fired plants and significant transmission upgrades. Entergy Louisiana is seeking approval from the Louisiana Public Service Commission to construct the generation and transmission infrastructure necessary […]| The Hayride
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes The Internet of Things (IoT) has reshaped how cities are conceptualized and planned. Cities worldwide now integrate digital technologies into their core systems. IoT devices connect people and governments to smart city solutions. These connections enable real-time data collection and analysis that supports city operations. The ability to connect and control devices... The post Building the Smart Grid: IoT Energy Management Systems appeared first on Teli...| Telit Cinterion
By Clara Summers Manager, CUB’s Consumers for a Better Grid Campaign You may have seen a flurry of news about electric bill increases due to something called a “capacity auction.” Or worse, you opened your June ComEd bill and saw a sharp uptick. You can learn more about PJM’s capacity market and this year’s price spike in our previous blog, and by visiting our Help Center. Sadly, there’s more bad news. Prices are going up yet again–next June. Let’s break it down. So what...| Citizens Utility Board
Duke Energy will remain the majority owner and operator of DEF, with no changes to workforce, operations, or the Florida leadership team.| Factor This™
Electrical transformers are becoming a key chokepoint for maintenance and expansion of the electrical grid in the U.S. and worldwide.| resilience
A DTECH Midwest session touched on common pain points for EVs, both from the customer and utility side, and how they can be massaged away.| Factor This™
Following the successful implementation and immediate benefits observed from the initial Neurons installed earlier this year, the German DSO is set to acquire additional sensors, significantly expanding their first order.| Heimdall Power
TVA plans to repurpose its retire Bull Run coal-fired plant with synchronous condensers for grid stability.| Factor This™
Pano AI has raised $89 million so far to help utilities address the increasing frequency, speed, and severity of wildfires.| Factor This™
EPRI's Climate READi initiative aims to strengthen the power sector’s collective approach to managing climate risk to its systems.| Power Grid: Transmission & Modernization
PG&E’s job listings come on the heels of rising interest in security for executives after the CEO of insurance behemoth UnitedHealthcare was fatally shot in Manhattan in December.| Factor This™
The outage began shortly after noon on April 28 in Spain and lasted through nightfall, disrupting businesses, transit systems, cellular networks, internet connectivity and other critical infrastructure.| Factor This™
Power generators and transmission system engineers have to rethink their planning strategies, and must continue to develop tools to allow more solar,| POWER Magazine
CAISO has approved 31 infrastructure projects to help meet increasing load growth and changing grid conditions.| Factor This™
New York City is one step closer to seeing its first offshore wind project connected to the grid.| Factor This™
DTECH Initiate progam participant Ferro Power Solutions provides software solutions for asset management, compliance, and more.| Factor This™
(The Center Square) — The recently announced Meta datacenter has been hailed by Louisiana’s leaders as a “game changer.” The project promises a great deal in the way of jobs, investments in infrastructure, clean energy and assurances that the project will not worsen rates for Louisiana residents. The rapid rise of data centers — 23 states […]| The Hayride
The USDA is investing $6.3 billion across more than 200 projects in 44 states to strengthen electric infrastructure in rural America.| Factor This™
DISTRIBUTECH is the largest, most influential transmission and distribution event in the country, showcasing cutting-edge technologies that power society.| Factor This™
When MISO inevitably opens a new queue window, the volume of pending and new projects will likely overwhelm the system once again.| Factor This™
Envisioned as an experimental platform for the future energy sector data economy, the Open Energy Hub is a connection hub of over 70 datasets from over 50 sources such as federal, state, academia and private sector entities.| Renewable Energy World
Itron has released its 2024 Resourcefulness Insight Report, which explores the current trends and future expectations of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on utility operations and strategies.| Renewable Energy World
GridUnity was selected to receive funding through the Department of Energy's GRIP program to build out its software platform promising to speed up the interconnection process.| Renewable Energy World
Eversource's Outer Cape Microgrid Optimization Project will coordinate and optimize customer-owned clean energy resources through a DERMS.| Renewable Energy World
Duke Energy's Lake Placid Solar Power Plant in Highlands County, Florida sustained a direct hit from a tornado ahead of Hurricane Milton.| Renewable Energy World
SolarPanelRecycling.com employees have been collecting and delivering goods to needy communities in Western North Carolina and beyond.| Renewable Energy World
The centers, which are being rapidly built in the West, are becoming an “emerging risk” to grid reliability in the region, experts say.| Washington State Standard
Houston-based geothermal energy startup Sage Geosystems has teamed up with a utility provider for an energy storage facility in the San Antonio metro area.| Energy Capital
As a recognized hub for technologists, IEEE is a go-to source for the latest in climate change-related technologies and sustainable design| IEEE Innovation at Work
There is more emphasis than ever on the need to expand access to reliable power in Africa— and minigrids might be a solution.| IEEE Innovation at Work
Modernizing the U.S. Electricity Grid for Resilience, Load Growth, the Clean Energy Transition, and Energy Security (May 2024) presents analysis from the Energy Futures Finance Forum (EF3) on how a lack of grid transmission capacity impacts the ability to finance and, in turn, deploy clean energy at the right pace and scale. This work addresses […]| EFI Foundation
It took a country-wide power outage in Venezuela, whispers of a cyberattack, and smug tweets from US officials to make Continue reading →| Mideast Shuffle
