The mechanism: Construction Work in Progress (CWIP) lets utilities recover financing costs for power plants and transmission before they come online. Over 40 states now allow some form of it—2X more ...

I am pleased to share that our research paper has been officially published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library..

Something is happening in the energy industry in Denmark. Unfortunately, the scenario unfolding is one of shortages, overages, and instability. Scott Schwandt, President and Infrastructure System ...

A “cease fire” has not reopened the needed commerce routes in the Strait of Hormuz or restored the energy source capacity of countries suffering from the situation. While two American-flagged merchant ...

Battery energy storage technology is causing a revolution in how consumers use electric power. These systems (hereafter, battery energy storage systems or BESS) are making large impacts in ...

What triggered it: Multiple sudden GW-scale load drops at data centers on the East Coast and in Texas in 2024-25. These unfolded in seconds—too speedy for real-time response—straining transformers, ...

In a largely unnoticed move last month (April 20) President Trump issued five separate but intimately connected “presidential determinations” under the terms of the 1950 Defense Production Act (DPA) ...

Technical Leader IV, Transportation Electrification at EPRI ...

Today, Marie French of POLITICO NY & NJ Energy wrote: NYISO SUMMER WARNING: The state’s grid will have its lowest reliability margin in recent history going into the summer, the independent grid ...

I participated in a brainstorming session with Paul Phillips of the CPUC staff in April 2019. We agreed that the biggest barrier to electrification was high electric rates. But rates could not be ...

I’ve been following the updates on those massive Chinese megaprojects in the Gobi Desert lately, and one specific trend realy jumped out at me: their move toward 800°C operating temperatures in Molten ...

Grid operator PJM projects energy costs will rise by up to 20% over the next five years. The energy industry is experiencing a resource mix that is becoming increasingly renewable and distributed, in ...