The modern electricity grid is a complex system of systems, operating in a highly politicized monopolistic environment, that is bounded by the technical potential and economic realities of ...

A vertical surface sees the sky and ground equally and a ground surface with a reflectivity of 1 doubles the solar input. An equatorially facing wall and a snowfield are close to ideal. Diffuse ...

So far, the US data center buildout has brought the most computing capacity to relatively wealthy areas—so these communities can handle the energy cost spikes, right? Not exactly. We took a close look ...

Long equipment lead times make protecting existing assets an increasingly important part of wildfire planning. A transformer can be one of the least visible parts of an electric utility's system, ...

Big nuclear: The NRC foundthat restarting the Crane Clean Energy Center (fka Three Mile Island) will have “no significant” environmental impact. It’s set to offer a total of 835 MW to the PA, NJ, and ...

Utilities have spent the last decade modernizing GIS, moving from desktop-centric systems toward web, mobile, and increasingly cloud-based architectures. Technology has changed dramatically. But have ...

Two Federal courts have upended more of the nefarious acts of the Trump administration’s energy and environmental policy gurus — Dr. Arbitrary and Capt. Capricious — and Environmental Protection ...

Last week, Microsoft filed a Ratepayer Protection Tariff with the Nevada Public Utilities Commission—and some energy pros are into it. The details: It would 1) require large-load customers to pay the ...

Texas’s 932-MW Sandy Creek plant—the last large coal facility built in the country—suffered a catastrophic failure in April and isn’t expected back online until March 2027, according to ERCOT. It’s ...

Hot, hot, hot: In June, the agency’s New Mexico auction yieldedover $16.5M (then the second-highestgeothermal sum in BLM history). Now, a Utah auction has racked upnearly $25M…just shy of the $28M ...

Most father-daughter duos catch up over, say, hiking or brunch. But physicist Richard Muller and his daughter Elizabeth bond by burying tiny nuclear reactors a mile underground. The idea behind their ...

Throughout the country, neighbors are getting into a new kind of heated exchange—this one isn’t over HOA rules or parking. Some communities are sharing thermal energy to moderate temps in homes and ...