The U.S. Department of Energy announced Wednesday it was cancelling a conditional $4.9 billion loan for the Grain Belt Express, a planned transmission line designed to transport electricity generated ...

A panel discussing the cost of solar energy at CERAWeek by S&P Global. Photo by Paul Gerke (Houston, TX) – Saddle up, energy cowboys (and cowgirls, and the energy horsies too). It’s a jam-packed ...

Hurricane Sandy and subsequent hurricanes that hit the United States often leave many electric utility executives, their customers, local and state government leaders and regulators contemplating ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via ChatGPT-4o. In what appears to be an unwitting ongoing act of self-sabotage that threatens grid reliability in an era of rapid load growth, the United States federal ...

Towering 450 feet above the California desertscape, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility was once, not so long ago, a monument to man’s ingenuity. When it was dedicated in 2014 (a ...

As with many advanced technologies, proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis had its beginnings in the space program. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the first use of ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via ChatGPT-4o. With the average monthly residential electric utility bill now reaching $190 (a 6% increase since 2024), and the average monthly residential gas bill reaching ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered wildfire detection startup Pano AI has announced the close of a $44 million Series B funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $89 million. The round was ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via Gemini. When large electrical loads, like data centers, come offline quickly, bad things can happen to the power grid. As more such customers connect to the U.S. bulk power ...

The number of smart meters in North America reached almost 146 million at the end of 2023 and with ongoing growth is expected to number 182.9 million in 2029. In a new study, Berg Insight reports that ...

In the U.S., the utility-scale sector has the greatest share of the U.S. solar market, with reports indicating that 70% of all new solar capacity added in 2023 was at the utility-scale level. Not only ...

Hanwha Qcells is still working towards full operations at its sprawling solar supply chain facility in Cartersville, Georgia, but the company already has a plan for what to do with panels that reach ...