Social Media Ideas for Energy Crossroads

Is Unlimited Energy Around the Corner? Creating Fusion in the Laboratory

Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Energy is the fundamental currency of human civilization. For centuries, access to energy has shaped geopolitical alliances, driven t...

Is Unlimited Energy Around the Corner? Creating Fusion in the Laboratory

Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Energy is the fundamental currency of human civilization. For centuries, access to energy has shaped geopolitical alliances, driven t...

A Business and Regulatory Navigator to Accelerate Electrification

Demand for electrification is moving faster than the system it connects to. Electric vehicles, heat pumps and electrified industrial processes are scaling 1, and the the United Na...

Denser Racks and Grid Delays Force an Infrastructure Rethink for the Data Center Industry

As grid connections are delayed, some operators turn to on-site generation. As racks grow denser, others upgrade electrical systems

Market boundaries matter: Western electricity markets can better share affordable power

This blog was co-authored by Kelsie Gomanie at the Natural Resources Defense Council The Western U.S. grid is entering a historic period of transformation. Today, moving low-cost p...

U.S. Grid Congestion Intensifies As Data Centers Compound Transmission Constraints

Unlocking grid capacity through dynamic distribution with Switched Source CEO Charles Murray

On the latest episode of the Factor This Podcast, we caught up with Switched Source CEO Charles Murray to discuss how utilities should think about their resilience strategy when he...

A bipartisan SPARK for the grid | Factor This Brief

The DOE announces SPARK funding recipients, NineDot celebrates NYC battery energy storage, Exus Renewables repowers wind projects, Invenergy and HASI expand their partnership, Nort...

America is hurtling toward a power grid crisis

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections A crisis is brewing for the U.S. electricity grid – one that could make your electric bill skyrocket and thwart efforts to address c...

PJM’s energy emergency | Factor This Policycast

This episode of the Factor This Policycast, presented in partnership with Advanced Energy United, tackles the PJM energy emergency. How can the nation’s largest grid operator moder...

A strategic retreat | Factor This Brief

The U.N. concedes the planet will miss critical climate targets, East Point Energy starts up storage in ERCOT, MN8 teams with Eos Energy and Google on an innovative project, NeoGen...

West Texas Transmission Uncertainty Threatens Relief for Renewable Generators

Opposition to West Texas grid expansion could prolong congestion, negative prices, and weak renewable capture rates. A multi-billion-dollar grid expansion proposed for West Texas,...

This novel power line could link 3 grids across 3 time zones

Michael Skelly knows it’s hard to build a huge transmission line that connects different regions of the grid. He has spent a decade trying to get one up and running. But Skelly, n...

Powering Sovereignty

How electrification can lead our transport transition away from polluting fuel imports in the EU post-2030 Renewable Energy Framework. With the recurrent energy crisis affecting Eu...

Energy in the Software Era: The Convergence of Bits and Watts

Discover how software-defined energy and eco-programming are revolutionizing the grid, cutting costs, and driving industrial sustainability. The post Energy in the Software Era: Th...

Harnessing the electricity supercycle to build US energy stability

Sustained disruption could provide the push needed to rebuild our energy systems faster, laying the groundwork for lasting stability, writes contributor Frédéric Godemel of Schneid...

Utilities are racing to link up with fusion startups, with Realta Fusion the latest to benefit

The grid has been straining under the weight of new AI data centers, and that has utilities courting fusion startups.

Virtual insanity | Factor This Brief

Virtual power plants are rapidly scaling, plus: 20 community solar projects find a financier, an ERCOT storage site doubles its capacity, Flatiron finances the East Coast's biggest...

From energy crisis to energy transition: How renewables are reshaping energy security

The continuing conflict in the Middle East is disrupting global energy markets and pushing up fuel prices, with knock-on effects far beyond the region.Read the full story, “From en...

Solar Crosses the Rubicon

Now cheaper than fossil fuels on a global scale, the economics of solar is propelling clean energy in a way that politics or climate claims never could.  For decades, the solar se...

Will a BAAJA blast quench America’s thirst for energy? | Factor This Brief

A long-awaited permitting bill surfaces; Black & Veatch puts the finishing touches on Mitsui & Co.'s first US utility-scale solar project, TurningPoint Energy and Nautilus...

Why Energy Security Now Matters To Business Connectivity

Energy and connectivity were traditionally two distinct conversations. Energy was a facilities problem, something the building manager could help with.... The post Why Energy Secur...

Where the Battles Against Harmful Highways and Hyper-Scale Data Centers Collide

Hyperscale AI data centers and highways are both harmful forms of fossil fuel infrastructure that get built without much community input — and it's time to fight back against both,...

Energy Security Is Increasing The Value Of Cross-Border Electricity

Energy independence was an understandable slogan in Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent gas and electricity prices through the roof. But it was also the wrong lesson. Eu...