Image art by Paul Gerke via Gemini. The wait is over. After years of uncertainty, the largest grid operator in the United States is once again reviewing interconnection requests for new energy ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via Gemini. Do you think Darth Vader worried about how to power the Death Star? Or was that responsibility delegated to a less Force-sensitive underling? Did the Empire use a ...

Municipal utilities and electric cooperatives have long faced a technology gap. Not in terms of ambition, but rather in terms of access. The sophisticated AI-enabled inspection workflows that large ...

This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week’s episode features ...

At the beginning of the year, the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) new Standard for the Installation of Stationary Energy Storage Systems (NFPA 855) went into effect. The updated NFPA 855 ...

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 ...

A Connexus Energy lineworker carrying out tasks related to a recent work order. The aging workforce “gap” that threatened the labor pool of U.S. utilities has largely been addressed, according to a ...

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 ...

Jupiter Power's 200 MW/400 MWh Calisto I BESS in Harris County, Texas. Courtesy: Jupiter Power The fastest-growing energy storage market in the United States isn’t showing any signs of letting up. The ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via ChatGPT-4o. The U.S. offshore wind industry has been treading deep water for quite some time now. This week, the Bureau of Ocean Management held its head under and finished ...

Wisconsin’s first large-scale energy storage project — the Paris Solar-Battery Park in Kenosha County — is now online and powering the grid. The 110-megawatt (MW) battery portion of the Paris ...

A new policy paper from the Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub, and the Policy and Innovation Group at the University of Edinburgh, argues there is “significant potential value” to the UK if ...