High-voltage transmission lines are essential for delivering electricity from generation sources to support homes, businesses and critical services. As demand rises, especially with data center growth ...

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Opportunity for deregulated energy users (Brazil) If your company has a contract in the deregulated power market, with a set price and volume, there's an opportunity that certainly deserves your ...

President Trump’s visceral dislike of “green” energy– particularly windmills, among other quirks he shares with Don Quixote – could backfire, raising consumer electric prices, according to two new ...

The utility industry is on the brink of a major transformation. While grid modernization has gained traction, it remains largely focused on electricity as the prime commodity for supply and delivery, ...

Video recording of the session at the bottom of this post, along with open Q&A discussion from the session taking place actively on the Energy Central Community: Big tech and its data centers are ...

Whether it’s moving solar panels, nacelles, grid batteries, transformers, or electrolyzers, the humble shipping container is increasingly the backbone of the energy transition. Containers lower capex ...

Electric bills are rising twice as fast as inflation, and everyone in DC has their own idea of who’s to blame and what’s to be done. Here’s a sampler of how the fight is playing out: Chris Wright, ...

How much energy does AI really use? Google has the answer. (Axios) The median energy use of a single text prompt on Google’s Gemini is equivalent to watching TV for less than nine seconds. It consumes ...

Louisiana regulators are voting Wednesday on Entergy’s plan to power Meta’s largest AI data center yet. (NOLA) It’s a $10B, 70-football-field-long facility with a load so massive it could drive up the ...

Nuclear startup Aalo Atomics has raised $100M to power its aggressive timeline: switching on its first reactor in the summer of 2026. (TechCrunch) Aalo’s facility will be located on the campus of the ...

North American data centers could tally $1T in new builds by 2030, but the boom is colliding head-on with utility realities: record demand, constrained capacity, and years-long interconnection queues.