6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (909+ words) The industry has gotten excited before, to no avail. Will it stick this time? “There’s still work to be done to really get it to the point where you could put it up on a rooftop for 25 years and you…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1090+ words) Across the Global South, distributed energy is “leapfrogging a centralized grid,” Odyssey’s cofounder told Heatmap. “It’s the same story as cell phones leapfrogging landlines,” Emily McAteer, Odyssey’s co-founder and CEO, told me. “It’s distributed energy leapfrogging a centralized grid.” The…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (984+ words) Temperatures are high, but electricity drama is low. The Texas summer isn’t over — highs today are forecasted to be at or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in much of the state — but so far the state’s grid has held up. And all…...

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3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (794+ words) There are lots of reasons why that might seem like a good idea, but I urge you to learn from my mistakes. All I wanted was to drive an electric car to the solar eclipse. But after the third consecutive…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1172+ words) A new report from a coalition of energy and data analytics organizations offers recommendations for the country’s demand response leader. “Load flexibility has underdelivered for a long time,” Ric O’Connell, executive director at the grid policy nonprofit GridLab, told me....