AI driven electric demand is forcing utilities to rethink their approach to connecting new data center customers to the grid. Until quite recently, many utilities had generating capacity to sell and competed for new...more
Modern data centers are the foundation of our information society and now use artificial intelligence to generate new forms of machine intelligence and learning – though at the cost of considerable energy consumption. Their...more
2/27/2025
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Small modular reactors (SMRs) can be collocated with high demand customers such as data centers and large manufacturing and chemical facilities to provide electric energy and capacity to them directly. Behind-the-meter...more
2/14/2025
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Congress and the Biden Administration recognize hydrogen’s potential to address the clean energy imperative. This past year, The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act appropriated $8B of spending to build out clean hydrogen...more
5/20/2022
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On September 17, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) made it possible through aggregation for small solar, bio-mass, wind, storage, demand response and other distributed energy resources to bid competitively...more