A recent BVLOS lidar operation for a regional electric utility showcases how long-range corridor inspections can be highly cost-effective.

Generator interconnection, the process by which power plants like large solar arrays, wind farms, and utility-scale batteries connect to the electrical grid, continues to be one of the biggest ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via Gemini. PJM Interconnection has earned its place in the pantheon of bottlenecks, wedged somewhere alongside first-ballot Hall of Famers ‘hourglass’ and ‘Los Angeles traffic ...

Enverus, an energy-dedicated SaaS company, released its 2025 Interconnection Queue Outlook, a collection of power generation and transmission projects that show requests to connect to the U.S. power ...

KORE Power no longer intends to build its previously-planned gigafactory in Buckeye, Arizona. Image art by Paul Gerke. Source material courtesy KORE Power. KORE Power is bailing on its plans for a ...

Access to power has become the key driver of AI and data center growth, prompting the need for new solutions among utilities, developers, and other stakeholders. This demand growth will test grid ...

Hurricane Sandy and subsequent hurricanes that hit the United States often leave many electric utility executives, their customers, local and state government leaders and regulators contemplating ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via ChatGPT-4o. It’s another great day to own an electricity-generating facility in PJM Interconnection. It’s another rough one for most ratepayers. PJM has announced the ...

This digital mock-up showcases a pumped storage hydropower plant in action. This form of renewable energy stores electricity efficiently and boasts the lowest greenhouse gas emissions among ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity (OE) has announced an approximately $1.9 billion funding opportunity to accelerate what it deems “urgently needed” upgrades to the nation’s power ...

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) 2025 capacity prices are higher than historical prices because this is the first year adopting a Reliability Based Demand Curve (RBDC). MISO moved to ...

In the U.S., the utility-scale sector has the greatest share of the U.S. solar market, with reports indicating that 70% of all new solar capacity added in 2023 was at the utility-scale level. Not only ...