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 […]
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 […]
Solar & EV ITC Phaseout to Hurt Black Church’s Resilience Hub Plans
The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church has ambitious plans to build 18 resilience hubs–and eventually up to 482. Churches will be offered a menu of […]
Podcast: What’s Next for Renewables, When ITC Phases Out
With the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” Act phasing out the investment tax credit (ITC) for solar and wind, what’s next for renewables? In this podcast, […]
Musician Makes Clean Energy Cool, Deploys Renewables at Off-Grid Concerts
Listen to my interview with AY Young in the player above. Musician AY Young has staged more than 950 renewable-energy powered off-grid concerts as part […]
Frustrated DER Developers See Relief Via Flexible Interconnection
Listen to the podcast episode here, in which ComEd and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) provide details about their flexible interconnection pilots. Two hardware and […]
Microgrids Past and Present: Podcast Interview
In 2014, Elisa Wood, Kevin Normandeau and I co-founded Microgrid Knowledge, a news site about microgrids and distributed energy. In 2022, we sold the news […]
New Podcast: Clean Energy Today
I just launched a new podcast, Clean Energy Today. For the podcast I’m interviewing innovators, businesses and consumers shaping the clean energy transition. Follow the […]
A School Bus that Can Help During Power Outages, Reduce Pollution
In the disadvantaged community of Odell, Oregon a group of organizations wants to create a community resilience center during power outages using a bidirectional electric […]