Emergency powers to restart coal plants? – This Week in Cleantech
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Power Grid
How Hitachi Energy is navigating an ‘energy supercycle’
Hitachi Energy executives share insight into the status of the global supply chain amidst an energy transition, touching on critical topics including tariffs and artificial…
Renewables
The great ‘knowledge transfer’: ABB eyes AI to help address workforce challenges
ABB's Karen Bomber shares how evolving technology like AI is helping the next generation of energy leaders get up to speed.
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Power Grid
Itron launches new grid edge DERMS solution for integration, real-time coordination
As a grid edge DERMS solution, IntelliFLEX facilitates real-time visibility, control and optimization of behind-the-meter DERs.
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Renewables
Climate activists warn that Trump’s energy policies have cost thousands of clean energy jobs
Since President Donald Trump’s election on Nov. 7, more than 42,000 clean energy and climate jobs across the nation have been lost or stalled according…
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Renewables
A ‘powered up’ day at CERAWeek: Data centers, AI, supply chains, the future of renewable energy, and much more
A dialogue on solar cost competitiveness and a speech from FERC Commissioner Mark Christie headline Thursday at CERAWeek by S&P Global.
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Renewables
US Interior Secretary suggests Biden stole trillions by halting offshore drilling without mentioning Trump’s offshore wind moratorium
At CERAWeek by S&P Global, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum teased sweeping permitting reform and promised to treat developers on federal lands like customers.
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Power Grid
This startup’s EV chargers mount to utility poles for recharging in dense urban areas
EVX, a participant in this year’s DTECH Initiate program, produces pole-mounted EV chargers meant to have reduced impact on the local landscape
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Power Grid
A $5B loan guarantee for a long-range transmission project may be Elon Musk’s next target
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has asked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk for an "immediate investigation" into the Grain Belt Express…
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Power Grid
Making the most out of the grid we’ve got: Siemens Energy dives into digitalization with AI, dynamic line ratings, and grid-enhancing tech
Adnan Chaudhry, the senior vice president of digital grid at Siemens Energy, shares how AI and grid-edge sensors are changing the role of electric utilities.
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