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It's fascinating to identify the attitude of each energy consumer—corporate or institutional—who has hired me in my decades of consulting. I've discovered that this is the central issue in achieving ...

North American data centers could tally $1T in new builds by 2030, but the boom is colliding head-on with utility realities: record demand, constrained capacity, and years-long interconnection queues.

Conestoga Energy acquired SAFFiRE Renewables from Southwest Airlines’s venture arm, gaining DOE-backed technology to turn corn stover (an ag byproduct) into ethanol with a carbon intensity score less ...

By Kennedy Maize Could the failed V.C. Summer nuclear power plant project to add two 1,000-MW reactors to an existing site, with heavy federal subsidies, come back to life? The operating 966-MW Virgil ...

California wants utilities to roll out dynamic pricing, but SMUD and LADWP are pumping the brakes. (NetZero Insider) SMUD said implementing hourly or sub-hourly pricing would cost $2.4M–$3.7M a year ...

Nuclear startup Aalo Atomics has raised $100M to power its aggressive timeline: switching on its first reactor in the summer of 2026. (TechCrunch) Aalo’s facility will be located on the campus of the ...

Big Tech may finally be ready to turn off their data centers (at least sometimes). (E&E News) Earlier this year, a Duke study (yes, that Duke study) found data centers could add nearly 100 GW of new ...

The Trump administration is pulling the plug on subsidies for solar panels on farmland, pitching it as a win for farmers but raising big questions for rural clean energy growth. (Penn Capital-Star) ...

The League of Conservation Voters is dropping $4M across 30+ states to tie rising energy bills to the GOP budget law ahead of the 2026 midterms. (Axios) Green groups are framing the fight around ...

China is the 800-pound clean technology gorilla, and in many cases, the hurdles to catch up are insurmountable. The battles in solar, wind, and EVs are virtually over. However, the future of nuclear, ...

More than a century ago, America’s first great energy transformation was powered by light. Edison’s electric bulbs lit New York City, backed by coal and industrial grit. It was an engineering feat ...