A Grid MRI for Identifying Available Grid Capacity
For Portland General Electric (PGE), GridCARE identified 400 MW of existing infrastructure to meet the needs of five data centers.
Synfuel with Hydropower Boost, Zinc Batteries for Data Centers and How EV Owners are Earning Income with V2G
I’ve been busy covering clean technologies, including a synfuel project in Iceland that gets a hydropower boost, nickel-zinc energy storage for data centers and new […]
Podcast Episode Named Best of LinkedIn–Electrification
I’m pleased that my Clean Energy Today podcast interview with Steve Letendre about policies needed to accelerate bidirectional charging was named Best of LinkedIn–Electrification and […]
Accelerate Bidirectional Charging with These Policy Ideas
Millions of people are driving electric vehicles (EV) which, with bidirectional charging, can provide value to the electrical grid and back up homes and businesses […]
These Farmers Plan to Use Agrivoltaics to Feed and Heal Their Community
Itanna and Yosafe Murphy are working to use agrivoltaics–co-locating solar PV energy production with agricultural activities on their 160-acre farm–to provide healthy, fresh and tasty […]
Virtual Power Plants Could Do Even More For Utility Customers & the Grid
Virtual power plant (VPP) provider CPower Energy provided 38 GWh to the grid between January and September, which was 137% higher than all of 2024, […]
Tears, Hope and Solar Deployment Stories at Sun Day Portland
At the Sun Day event in Portland, Ore. on Sept. 21, I interviewed participants about what clean energy means to them. You can listen to […]
Legislation Aims to Give Access to Plug-In Solar to “Everyone, Everywhere”
Bright Saver, a nonprofit organization, is working with the Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG) to draft model legislation that would help make plug-in solar […]
Podcast: 4 Challenges to Advanced Nuclear Reactors for Data Centers
In the latest Clean Energy Today podcast (player above), Samuel Gibson, founder and CEO at Hadron Energy, said the company’s micro modular reactors–a type of […]
For Rural Drivers, EVs Can Cost 1.5 Cents/Mile. Gas: 20 Cents/Mile
For rural drivers, electric vehicles (EV) can cost as little as 1.5 cents/mile, compared to 20 cents/mile for gas cars, according to Steve Gutmann, co-founder […]