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The Trump administration is dismantling the energy efficiency programs designed to keep data center demand in check. (E&E News) Roll the tape: DOE has shuttered its efficiency office, rolled back ...

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 ...

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 ...

JD Power’s 2025 report shows a clear shift: Long outages in the U.S. are rising sharply—from 8.1 to 12.8 hours since 2022—and in Southern states, outages now average over 18 hours. Nearly half of ...

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 ...

CHARGE North America helps energy companies measure, strengthen, and prove the value of their brands. Energy brands operate in a shifting mix of politics, policy, investor expectations, and public ...

Utilities might be slightly over-hyping the data center boom, according to a new reality check from Grid Strategies. (Utility Dive) The discrepancy: Utilities currently project 90 GW of new data ...

Could AI’s insatiable hunger for power actually fast-track the arrival of commercial fusion by 20 to 30 years? (Axios) Follow the money: Rob Roy, CEO of data center giant Switch, argued this week that ...

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 ...