Maryland is preparing a heavy 2026 energy agenda—expanding utility-scale solar, tightening profit oversight, capping distribution costs, and deploying grid-enhancing software. (The Daily Record) ...

For over a century, energy has shaped geopolitics: determining who leads, who follows, and who becomes caught in the slipstream of other nations’ industrial ambitions. The West once held dominance in ...

Multi-unit residential buildings face a long-standing and well-known challenge: the main meter almost never aligns perfectly with the sum of all sub-meters. Even small discrepancies—caused by ...

As the energy sector races to meet soaring demand from AI, data centers, and electrification, utilities are confronting a once-in-a-generation inflection point. That urgency, along with a spirited ...

Deep in Texas coal country, Sage Geosystems and San Miguel Electric Cooperative just delivered ERCOT’s first pressure-geothermal storage well. (POWER Mag) The system uses a sealed subsurface “lung” to ...

Valar Atomics says it’s the first startup in DOE’s new fast-track reactor pilot to reach criticality, using a zero-power chain reaction to prove its core physics before moving toward a full prototype.

JD Power says the worst blackouts now average 12.8 hours—up from 8.1 in 2022—due in large part to extreme weather. The South leads in both outage time (18.2 hours) and customer satisfaction, thanks to ...

I’ve spent more than two decades working side-by-side with utilities around the world, helping them grapple with their transmission systems - performance, resilience, efficiency. In all that time, I ...

The Twin Cities are bringing back an idea first tested by DOE under the University of Minnesota in the 1980s. (Inside Climate News) That idea? Storing heat in an underground aquifer and using it to ...

Northeast grid operators are heading into winter with more confidence than you’d expect from a region that’s rapidly electrifying its heating. (Utility Dive) ISO-NE says it has 31 GW of capacity lined ...

According to PJM’s new ELCC table, demand response is now one of the most valuable resources on the grid. (PJM) Demand resources score a 92% capacity value for the 2027/28 auction—higher than every ...

Article co-authored by Saurabh Chatterjee, Senior Vice President and Onshore Renewables Business Line Leader at WSP. WSP’s senior vice president and onshore renewables business line leader Saurabh ...