For most utilities with wildfire exposure, the era of relying on the USFS' Wildfire Hazard Potential (WHP) maps is ...

In today’s episode, the Substack Shipping News follows the major project-fantasyland adventures of anti-oil, net-zero-carbon politicians in an apparent embrace of a multibillion-dollar oil pipeline ...

When discussing BESS safety, most attention is given to thermal runaway, fire suppression, flammable gas management, and ...

Sunrun wants to tap its 1.1M customers to offer extra compute power to AI developers. How? The company is testing compute nodes in homes with its solar and battery systems and selling that ...

Improving Wind Farm Reliability with AI-Driven Drone Inspections Wind power's growth has been hard to miss lately it's one of the fastest-expanding renewable sources out there, giving utilities and ...

July is here, and so is our latest batch of Energy Central Top Contributors—community members who are starting compelling conversations, keeping the thread going with engaging comments, and sharing ...

For decades, utility inspection meant one of two options: expensive helicopter flyovers or slow, risky ground and climbing crews. Neither scales well against today's grid reliability demands, and ...

EIA: "The 250-year history of U.S. energy consumption." Only appropriate after the recent celebration of the ...

AAAS: "Proposed new satellite fleets could overwhelm the night sky." Orbiting data centers + sunlight reflectors would ...

Global capacity is projected to rise by 44% over the next decade and reach 535 GW, thanks in part to rapid buildouts in India and China. The latter is set to eclipse the US and become the ...

Everybody’s talking about the grid operator’s connect-and-manage framework. How it works: Resources don’t have to wait for the transmission upgrades required for “full deliverability.” ...

NERC pointed out that most of the US has enough capacity for normal summer conditions…but warned that New England and the Northwest could face “elevated risks” of supply shortfalls ...