grid

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November 6, 2025

Finally, Something Everyone Agrees On: Data Centers Should Cover Their Own Costs

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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September 29, 2025

Data Centers Are Already Increasing Your Energy Bills. We Have the Receipts.

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

June 25, 2025

What Are the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence?

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Director of Innovation and Collaboration

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June 18, 2025

What We’re Watching: Coming Historic Heat Plus Acute Risks Could Make Rest of June a Hot Mess

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

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June 11, 2025

To Build True Resilience, Grid Planners Must Seek Community Wisdom

Sital Sathia
Energy Justice Research Associate

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June 3, 2025

Strength in Numbers: Why We Need More Climate Science in Power System Planning

Rachel Licker
Former Staff

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June 3, 2025

Planning For Climate Change Isn’t Happening. It’s Putting Communities at Risk.

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

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March 31, 2025

Western Energy Markets, Sabrina Carpenter, and the Grid Espresso Paradox

Daniel Barad
Western States Policy Manager

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March 17, 2025

Why I Don’t Buy Data Centers’ Claims They Can Leapfrog over Utilities

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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February 6, 2025

Why Data Centers and Nuclear Plants Can’t Just ‘Go It Alone’

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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December 12, 2024

Power Moves: Billions in Benefits for the Midwest’s Transmission System

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

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December 12, 2024

Massive Investments in the Midwest Grid Are Worth Celebrating

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

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December 3, 2024

$12 Billion Can Get You the Wrong Kind of Attention

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

City skyline with data connections over it

Busakorn Pongparnit/Getty Images

October 16, 2024

Powering the Data Boom: How Will the Grid Keep Up?

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

An electrical transformer, power lines and a tree rest in the yard of a house.

Bruce Bennett/Getty Images

September 19, 2024

The Electricity Distribution System Can Stay Resilient in Extreme Weather

Guest Commentary

A dispatch board shows the distribution of the state's electricity at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) Alhambra Control Center after a Stage 1 power emergency was announced in 2006.

David McNew/Getty Images

June 10, 2024

Want to Connect Clean Energy to California’s Power Grid? Get in Line (Part 2 of 3)

Vivian Yang
Western States Energy Analyst

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Weiquan Lin/Getty Images

April 16, 2024

What’s Stalling the Transition to a Modern Electricity Grid?

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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February 13, 2024

Grid Investments are Critical to Our Clean Energy Future

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

August 4, 2023

Batteries Now Can Replace Old Power Plants

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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April 13, 2023

Ask a Scientist: The Electric Car and Power Grid’s Shared Future

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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February 21, 2023

A Better Way of Paying for a Reliable Electricity Grid

Guillermo Pereira
Former Contributor

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September 7, 2022

Failure to Plan Could Create an Energy Crisis

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

in this low-angle photo of a power transmission tower, a blue sky is visible and in the foreground, a white power transmission tower connected to power lines

Jinyang Liu/Unsplash

July 25, 2022

Boosting Michigan’s Energy Future with Regional Transmission Upgrades

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

This photo shows a solar panel array on the grounds of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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July 25, 2022

Overdue Grid Improvements Will Help Illinois Achieve Energy Goals

Meghan Hassett
Former Contributor