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  • Electricity Needed to Support Data Centers

    • July 31, 2024
    • Posted by: Admin
    • Category: Developers, Utilities
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    US data center power consumption has seen rapid growth driven to support Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and cloud computing. Utilities’ decisions to build new electricity supply to meet future data center energy usage takes careful analysis and contracting. Without proper planning, the risk is real that utilities will overbuild based on early forecasts or incorrect assumptions.

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  • Investing in Renewables

    • June 20, 2023
    • Posted by: Admin
    • Category: Developers, Funding trends, Utilities
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    Renewable generating projects are forecasted to grow exponentially over the next decade and beyond. Obtaining transmission for these renewable projects is currently more than challenging. As a result, managing investor expectations and achieving success will take work and substantial coordination with multiple stakeholders.  According to the US Department of Energy (“DOE”) Energy Information Agency’s June

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  • Capitalizing on the Opportunity

    • August 12, 2022
    • Posted by: Admin
    • Category: Developers, Innovation, Purchasing, Utilities
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    US Capital (c/o Pixabay)

    Energy innovation has never been more needed than now. With the expected enactment of the August 2022 Senate Climate Act, officially HR 5376, dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022”, the U.S. has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a new energy and cleaner climate path forward. The changes will not happen overnight, and the most

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  • Transmission Infrastructure Progress

    • February 21, 2022
    • Posted by: Admin
    • Category: Developers, Utilities
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    Transmission

    The US electricity transmission infrastructure needs improvement.  Economical projects take years to make it through the transmission queues. PJM announced in early February 2022 that it was pausing new interconnections (for 2 years) to work through a back-log that is 500 days for 33% of the proposed new capacity and to allow time to advance

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  • Storage economics and forecasts mid-2017

    • September 12, 2017
    • Posted by: Admin
    • Category: Utilities
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    Storage predictions in the late spring and mid-2017 show strong future growth based on expected economics. Selected NREL, University of Minnesota, Greentech Media, US Federal Regulatory Commission, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance mid-2017 storage reports support robust storage growth in the upcoming decade. Recent NREL Reports After a detailed review of utility tariffs, Clean Energy

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  • Many US Groups Step Up to Help Realize Paris Accord Goals

    • June 5, 2017
    • Posted by: Admin
    • Category: Utilities
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    Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord may have a silver lining. On face value, the decision negatively impacts the standing of the US in the world, denies the existence of a real problem, encourages other countries and people in the US to not address environmentally responsible actions, sets back US innovation in

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