As Texas temperatures soar, ERCOT crushes demand and generation records without incident
ERCOT reported record electric demand in Texas, reaching 91,308 MW, while managing the surge without major incidents.
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Case study: Biodiversity monitoring at agrivoltaic sites
HiveTracks partnered with Skyview Ventures to monitor biodiversity across multiple solar sites in the United States and assess how land management practices influence ecological outcomes.
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Beyond the Big Beautiful Bill: Building and financing clean energy after a critical tax credit deadline | Factor This Policycast
On this episode of the Factor This Policycast, Walter McLeod and Bryan Didier of Monarch Private Capital share how clean energy projects are being financed for construction in the second half of 2026 and beyond.
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Putting AI to work: From 156 million parcels to buildable solar design, without the guesswork
The developers most likely to succeed will be those who treat the grid as the first question rather than the last, and who put AI to work where it actually changes the answer.
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Change is gonna come | Factor This Brief
As FERC weighs what to do with PJM, Avantus reaches commercial operations at Aratina 1, rPlus Energies celebrates solar milestones in Idaho, Strata Clean Energy upgrades its revolving credit line, another plot of Pennsylvania coal land is converted into a wind farm, and Altus Power acquires five Virginia community colar projects.
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Floridians are investing in reliability long before named storms show up
Utilities don’t always see how much resilience customers are building at the property level, independent of what’s happening on the grid side, writes contributor Tom Beard, longtime CEO of Palmer Electric.
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Understanding how utilities can drive affordability while cultivating customer engagement
Nathan Shannon will discuss how energy affordability connects with utility reliability at DTECH Reliability & Resiliency
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ComEd’s tech-first approach showcases what it means to engineer utility affordability
ComEd delivered approximately 100,000 megawatt-hours of energy savings to customers in Illinois through its Voltage Optimization initiative.
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Why is a layered defense for utility wildfire mitigation so critical?
Utilities are considering wildfire mitigation from a whole new perspective that will be showcased at DTECH Reliability & Resiliency
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As EV sales flatten, automakers make the case for backup power – This Week in Cleantech
On this episode of the This Week in Cleantech podcast, Alexa St. John from The Associated Press discusses how automakers are increasingly turning their EVs and hybrids into home backup power sources as EV sales growth slows.
In Texas, solar and sheep go hand in hand – This Week in Cleantech
On this episode of the This Week in Cleantech podcast, Lana Ferguson from the Dallas Morning News discusses the booming agrivoltaics industry in Texas.
Nextpower closes Prevalon acquisition, inches closer to world domination
Nextpower has completed its previously announced acquisition of utility-scale battery energy storage system company Prevalon Energy, formally marking its entry into the storage market.
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$1.8bn pumped hydro project to give new life to former Australian coal mine site
The New South Wales government approved a $1.8 billion pumped storage and solar project by Gloucester Coal Pty Ltd, located 100 kilometers north of Newcastle.
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Snake River water trust users won’t face water curtailment in Idaho this summer
Gov. Brad Little and the Idaho Department of Water Resources announced an agreement with Idaho Power to avoid shutting off irrigation water due to low water levels.
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As Colorado River and tributaries shrink, a public power system frays
Gunnison River hydropower is under stress as data center development creates increasing demand for electricity generation.
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Price of the brick going up | Factor This Brief
An innovative community solar site gets acquired, Spearmint adds storage to MISO, a controversial project receives unanimous approval, and a four-phase solar and storage project reaches commercial operations.
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Could hydropower credits undermine New York City’s climate law?
Mayor Mamdani is facing pressure to limit an avenue for large building owners to buy credits instead of cutting emissions.
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Aker Solutions wins contract for Norwegian hydropower plant
The Tussa II hydropower plant will feature two 75MW Pelton turbine units providing a total installed capacity of 150MW.
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Drax invests £2m to preserve iconic Tongland hydro plant
Drax’s investment has revitalised the 90-year-old Tongland Power Station, preserving a key part of Scotland’s hydroelectric heritage
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Rural NV counties especially vulnerable to Hoover Dam hydropower decline
Rural communities in Nevada face reduced hydropower from Hoover Dam as Lake Mead drops below critical levels, impacting electricity costs and supply.
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This island in the Great Lakes wants to tap waves for energy
Hydrokinetic energy from the waves surrounding Beaver Island could improve electricity reliability and push an emerging technology forward.
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The grid has the devices. Now utilities need the infrastructure to dispatch DERs
Contributed by Michael Grasso | CEO of Grid Rails After decades of predictable demand growth, utilities across North America are facing a convergence of pressures: data center and AI infrastructure expansion, industrial electrification, electric vehicles, and rising reliability requirements. The result is the steepest demand-growth challenge the industry has seen in generations. At the same
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PJM capacity auction easily hits price cap… Again
PJM Interconnection’s latest power auction easily reached its federally mandated price collar of $325 per megawatt-day, further signaling the imblance of supply and demand in the region.
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Relief from energy bills unlikely as utilities request billions in rate hikes
Utilities have proposed more than $18B in increases this year, a new report found.
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New coalitions building regional energy workforce pipelines
The Center for Energy Workforce Development has launched two new regional coalitions to highlight workforce opportunities and the demand for critical roles that support the local energy ecosystem.
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Case study: Field data collection to real-time scorecard | How utilities can manage billion-dollar capital programs at scale
CenterPoint Energy shares a balanced, metrics-first playbook that other utilities can adapt and implement to ensure a reliable and resilient electric grid remains affordable for ratepayers.
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