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Renewable revolution: How corporations are driving the energy transition

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:00:00 -0400

How companies are turning clean power strategies into competitive advantage.

From chaos to clarity: How utilities can speed storm recovery with real‑time storm intelligence

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:00:00 -0400

From hurricanes to ice storms to derechos, utilities need smarter storm tech to restore power safely, efficiently and with greater precision.

AI for AI: Additive infrastructure for artificial intelligence

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:00:00 -0400

AI’s rise is reshaping US power and infrastructure at an unprecedented scale and speed.

AI infrastructure: The utility’s role in scalable, reliable data center power

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:00:00 -0400

Getting reliable and sustainable power at scale is one of the biggest challenges facing data centers.

Coal- and gas-fired power plants have a new best friend: data centers

Abbe Ramanan — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:51:30 -0400

The data center boom is here to stay, but so is climate change. Load growth is not an excuse to reverse progress and renew dependence on fossil fuel energy.

GM, Redwood Materials sign deal to deploy energy-storage batteries

Eric Walz — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:38:30 -0400

The partnership will create low-cost batteries to power AI data centers and other applications.

NRC approvals move Palisades nuclear plant closer to restart

Robert Walton — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:20:15 -0400

The Palisades plant is now authorized to receive new fuel and formally transition licensed reactor operators to on-shift status, Holtec International said in a statement.

FERC orders changes to PJM’s grid interconnection process, plus 3 other open meeting takeaways

Ethan Howland — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:10:09 -0400

Required changes include cost allocation for network upgrades, consideration of grid-enhancing technologies and energy storage modeling.

Data centers seek flexible power solutions for resilience, sustainability

Brian Martucci — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:50:07 -0400

Flexible battery- or generator-based solutions can help data centers power up faster, reduce grid impacts and keep their owners’ sustainability goals within reach, experts say.

DOE’s national labs reportedly consider layoffs amid budget cuts

Diana DiGangi — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:44:07 -0400

Proposed budget cuts could lead to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory each laying off around a thousand employees.