Modernizing grid strategy across New England with Damir Novosel and Chris Root
Dr. Damir Novosel and Chris Root from Dash Power Partners will lead a workshop at DTECH Northeast in Boston focused on strategies and solutions for utilities
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Competitive transmission in Texas could save ratepayers billions
Texans for Affordable Transmission released a study by Aurora Energy Research, finding competitive bidding for ERCOT’s transmission projects could save $3 billion to $9 billion in construction costs and $7 billion to $22 billion for ratepayers.
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Scaling DERs for reliability and resilience | Factor This Policycast
This episode of the Factor This Policycast explores how customer-sited technologies, including batteries, smart thermostats, backup generators, microgrids, rooftop solar, and flexible load, can be aggregated and operated as dependable grid assets.
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Speed-to-Power for AI Factories: The Blueprint for Scaling Data Center Power Infrastructure
Dive into how the rapid evolution of AI infrastructure is transforming data center power strategy and why power systems must now be designed alongside compute architecture. This webinar explores the DSX Design Blueprint, a technical framework for planning and optimizing GW-scale AI factories, integrating grid interconnection strategy, substation design, energy storage, power distribution, load flexibility,…
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A bipartisan SPARK for the grid | Factor This Brief
The DOE announces SPARK funding recipients, NineDot celebrates NYC battery energy storage, Exus Renewables repowers wind projects, Invenergy and HASI expand their partnership, NorthStar finishes a Michigan solar site, and Renewable Properties now plays in PJM.
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Wildfire detection from space? XPRIZE competition awards promising emerging resilience tech
XPRIZE announced awardees for the $11 million Wildfire competition, recognizing advancements in firefighting technologies across two tracks.
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How can utilities best approach wildfire risk in the Northeast?
Utilities across the United States are adopting wildfire strategies that successfully adapt western wildfire risk models
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Harnessing the electricity supercycle to build US energy stability
Sustained disruption could provide the push needed to rebuild our energy systems faster, laying the groundwork for lasting stability, writes contributor Frédéric Godemel of Schneider Electric.
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Look what DERs can do: 580 MW sent to the grid in largest-ever VPP dispatch
During a heat wave on the evening of September 9, 2026, Sunrun and Tesla dispatched more than 580 megawatts to the California grid in the largest VPP demonstration to date.
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Iran war energy crisis backs Bangladesh into a corner — This Week in Cleantech
On this episode of the This Week in Cleantech podcast, David Fickling from Bloomberg discusses how Bangladesh’s garment industry is coping with the Iran war’s disruption of the energy supply chain.
How academic research and utility partnerships can enable grid modernization and decarbonization
On this episode of the Factor This podcast, we caught up with Clarkson University’s Dr. Leo Jiang to get a sense of how utilities can leverage university research to modernize legacy assets, what it means to refine dynamic modeling, how to cultivate the technical talent needed for a resilient grid and much more.
Moldova to impose 60-day energy and water emergency due to drought and rising costs
Moldova voted to impose a 60-day state of emergency on its energy and water sectors due to low water levels and rising energy costs.
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Retrofits, relicensing, and more: new report shows ‘steady growth’ in US hydro sector
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory released the Hydropower Market Report, showing growth in the hydropower sector.
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DOE targets next-gen geothermal development with $99M for field-scale tests, exploration drilling
The U.S. Department of Energy announced over $99 million for 21 geothermal energy projects across the United States to advance technology and exploration.
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Hydropower licensing needs a refresh – could this new bill do the job?
The U.S. Senate passed the Hydropower Relicensing Transparency Act, aimed at improving hydropower licensing efficiency, now at the President’s desk.
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Not the worst time for an AI data center to spill 5,500 gallons of backup fuel into a tributary | Factor This Brief
An AI Data center dumps diesel fuel in New Jersey, Georgia Power starts operations on an Air Force base, Branch Energy raises $33M for its ‘grid-in-a-box,’ SRP approves the Marigold Energy Center, 38 Degrees North closes on community solar financing, and Excelsior sells two solar sites to Enel.
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Hydropower licensing requirements have exploded. The industry says the grid could pay.
With more than 12 GW of hydropower facing relicensing over the next decade, NHA says rising regulatory requirements could threaten existing generation.
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Brazil’s São Simão hydro plant sees ‘accelerated’ modernization in GE Vernova project
SPIC Brasil and GE Vernova completed the modernization of Generating Unit 3 at the São Simão Hydroelectric Power Plant in Minas Gerais and Goiás.
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The U.S. is sitting on a gold mine of untapped hydropower potential
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory found that non-powered dams in the U.S. could generate 15.2 terawatt-hours of electricity annually.
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Rescuers pull trapped workers from a hydropower tunnel 9 days after Nepal floods
Rescuers in Nepal pulled two workers alive from an underground tunnel at a hydropower plant Friday, raising hopes of reaching dozens of others believed to be trapped nine days after deadly floods swept away villages and submerged the Himalayan region in mud and debris.
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BC Hydro relocates mystery island of Williston Reservoir
Canadian utility BC Hydro has relocated an island roughly the size of two football fields that was initially spotted about 100 kilometers from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in British Columbia, Ontario.
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Powering awareness: Bringing the reality of the grid to the public
OATI CEO Dr. Sasan Mokhtari outlines how their Powering Independence campaign aims to enhance public understanding of energy complexities and grid management
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Energy Department will spend $2 billion to squeeze more electricity from the aging power grid
The Energy Department will invest nearly $2 billion in 31 projects across 26 states to enhance the power grid, increasing capacity by over 23 gigawatts.
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AMI-enabled grid edge intelligence improves affordability for utilities
AMI 2.0 closes the grid intelligence gap, helping utilities improve affordability, writes contributor Prasanna Venkatesan, CCO of Landis+Gyr.
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Insights from the Wildfire & Weather Emergency Response Summit at DTECH Reliability & Resilience
Utilities are addressing newly addressing novel and severe wildfire risks through a variety of proactive strategies, mny of which emphasize data-driven approaches.
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Winter storms Fern and Gianna tested the US power grid; 2027 could bring a bigger reliability challenge
Generators performed better and winterization paid off, but a multi-day cold event exposed fuel and supply chain strains that rising demand will only intensify.
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