September 24th, 2025
In the years ahead, wildfires may reach catastrophic proportions for utilities. The wildfire situation is bad now and could get worse as summers get hotter, as predicted. But there are defensive measures and technology is helping.
August 20th, 2025
Big tech and its data centers are upending the electric utility world. Data centers aren’t only demanding and using more and more power, but they are also changing the structure of the industry.
They are a force throughout the system behind the meter, in front of the meter, and as a driver for more nuclear (both fission and fusion), renewables and any carbon-free electricity.
July 9th, 2025
Natural gas, always a favorite with electric utilities, has been lifted to dominance in the energy mix by the Trump administration. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has roundly attacked the economics and viability of wind and solar energy, most recently in an op-ed in the New York Post.
May 7th, 2025
The United States Energy Association will examine new, transformative technologies which are entering the electric utility space at its next virtual press briefing, set for Wednesday, May 7, at 11 a.m. EDT.
April 16th, 2025
The tumult produced by President Trump’s global tariffs has added a new urgency to the United States Energy Association’s next virtual press briefing.
The briefing, which is set for Wednesday, April 16 at 11 a.m. EDT, will examine the utility industry under the rubric of “New Challenges, Old Trajectories.” It will be broadcast live on Zoom and is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
March 5th, 2025
Lee Zeldin, new Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has said, “It’s important for us urgently to do everything in our power to make sure Americans have the cleanest air, land, and water. That’s something that keeps me up at night."
February 12th, 2025
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The Trump administration has made energy one of its cornerstone policies, hoping to produce "energy dominance."
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Join us as the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Jennifer Kramb and Brandt Petrasek present and discuss DOE's Consultation and Engagement with Federally Recognized Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Corporations requirements.
January 15th, 2025
While electric utilities and consumers will be cruising comfortably in the middle and distant future with new transmission, new generation, AI management, DER and new technologies, particularly nuclear, in the form of small modular reactors and maturing fusion, their immediate future is a road filled with potholes.
December 4th, 2024
The United States Department of Energy – National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE-NETL) has been developing the National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP) to evaluate several aspects of carbon capture storage (CCS). The existing NRAP tools satisfy four key areas of CCS projects: (1) risk-based areas of review (AoRs), (2) induced seismicity probability and impacts, (3) monitoring approaches, and (4) risk of leakage from existing wellbores. The NRAP tools were not developed to satisfy the requirements of the U.S.
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