A bipartisan SPARK for the grid | Factor This Brief ow.ly/Bs9w106FqOp #Business #Finance #News #ProjectDevelopment #Solar #WindPower #Brief #DTECH #ReliabilityandResilience #Renewables

Our top article of last week was the Factor This Brief, detailing, among other things, apathy to the environmental impact of new infrastructure, brought on in part by the centrality of speed-to-power conversations in an energy industry grappling with skyrocketing demand. Read the full Brief: 🔗ow.ly/M2SY50ZS1br #FactorThis #FactorThisBrief #SpeedToPower #EnergyInfrastructure #PowerInfrastructure

DTECH Reliability & Resiliency featured a Wildfire & Resiliency Strategy Summit as a preview to DTECH 2027's U.S. nationwide conversation. We learned from industry stakeholders like LiveEO, Buzz Solutions, FireScape, the Public Service Company of New Mexico, and others, about scaling visual AI, budgeting for resilience and wildfire prevention, modern utility emergency response, and other emerging best practices, in a conversation to be continued in Atlanta, GA, in 2027. Check it out: 🔗ow.ly/N9P950ZS1b1 @DISTRIBUTECH ; @LiveEO_space ; @BuzzSolutions1 #DTECH #DTECH2027 #ReliabilityAndResiliency #WildfireResilience #WildfireMitigation

Wildfire detection from space? XPRIZE competition awards promising emerging resilience tech ow.ly/RVFn106FkVc #News #OutageManagement #PowerGrid #DTECH #ReliabilityandResilience

Iran war energy crisis backs Bangladesh into a corner — This Week in Cleantech ow.ly/KvKn106FkhS #Business #News #Podcasts #PolicyRegulation #Renewables #ThisWeekinCleantech

Powering awareness: Bringing the reality of the grid to the public ow.ly/ZY4s106FjUE #GridModernization #News #PowerGrid #CustomerExperience #DTECH #OATI

Proof that distributed energy resources (DERs) and other reliability enhancing, customer-sited technologies like batteries, smart thermostats, backup generators, and microgrids, are providing their projected benefits, will arrive when infrastructure expansion and upgrade projects can be deferred or even cancelled because DERs are picking up the slack. EnergyHub's Maxwell Burke-Scoll and our other guest experts get into the weeds with these emerging tools and technologies in this latest episode of the Factor This Policycast, produced in partnership with Advanced Energy United. Watch the full conversation: 🔗ow.ly/qUVO50ZRbVu @AdvEnergyUnited ; @Sunrun ; @EnergyHub ; @alliantenergy #FactorThis #Policycast #AdvancedEnergyUnited #EnergyHub #MaxwellBurkeScoll

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced more than $99 million for 21 projects selected to advance geothermal energy development across the United States, including field-scale tests of next-generation geothermal technologies and exploration drilling to characterize and potentially confirm geothermal resources. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/oGbn50ZRbPW @ENERGY #USDOE #DepartmentOfEnergy #GeothermalEnergy #GeothermalPower #GeothermalTechnology

What can policymakers and regulators do to encourage adoption of flexible grid resources like virtual power plants and distributed energy resources? EnergyHub's Maxwell Burke-Scoll advocates for accreditation methodologies that let utilities earn on flexibility the same way they earn on other investments in this episode of Factor This Policycast, produced in partnership with Advanced Energy United. Watch the full conversation: 🔗ow.ly/tfLY50ZRbxp @AdvEnergyUnited ; @Sunrun ; @EnergyHub ; @alliantenergy #FactorThis #Policycast #AdvancedEnergyUnited #EnergyHub #MaxwellBurkeScoll

Energy Department will spend $2 billion to squeeze more electricity from the aging power grid ow.ly/QEHi106Fg2c #GridModernization #News #PowerGrid #DTECH

How can utilities best approach wildfire risk in the Northeast? ow.ly/keAP106FfOn #GridModernization #News #PowerGrid #ReliabilityandResilience

Scaling DERs for reliability and resilience | Factor This Policycast ow.ly/HhPV106Ff2V #Business #Distribution #GridModernization #News #Podcasts #PolicyRegulation #PowerGrid #DTECH #DTECHMidwest #ReliabilityandResilience #Renewables

Frédéric Godemel, EVP of Energy Management for Schneider Electric, writes "What if we treated today's energy market turmoil as an opportunity rather than a threat?" The sustained disruption of an "electricity supercycle," a prolonged period of unprecedented, surging demand for electrical power, could be the push needed to rebuild energy systems faster. Godemel lays out three energy security priorities for both countries and companies. Priorities: 🔗ow.ly/zRam50ZQMcH @SchneiderElec #SchneiderElectric #FredericGodemel #EnergyManagement #ElectricitySupercycle #ElectricityDemand

Managed charging programs pose both benefits and risks to utilities. How can managed EV charging and other distributed energy resource applications support enhanced reliability without letting individual motorists, homeowners, renters, and other ratepayers down? We learn about this and a whole lot more from our guest experts in this episode of Factor This Policycast, produced in partnership with Advanced Energy United. Watch the full conversation: 🔗ow.ly/S6LZ50ZQLSN @AdvEnergyUnited ; @Sunrun ; @EnergyHub ; @alliantenergy #FactorThis #Policycast #AdvancedEnergyUnited #ManagedCharging #EVCharging

The U.S. Senate recently passed bipartisan legislation led by U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) intended to increase transparency in the hydropower licensing process. The Hydropower Relicensing Transparency Act passed the House of Representatives and was sent to the President’s desk to be signed into law. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/In8m50ZQpNB @CortezMasto ; @SteveDaines #HydropowerRelicensingTransparencyAct #Hydropower #HydroelectricPower #HydropowerLicensing #HydropowerRelicensing

Sunrun and Tesla just reported the largest-ever distributed virtual power plant (VPP) dispatch event on the evening of September 9, 2026, when the companies’ fleets of home batteries sent more than 580 megawatts (MW) of power to California’s grid. That’s enough capacity to power all households in Sacramento County during peak hours. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/NB1j50ZQpNq @Sunrun ; @Tesla #Sunrun #Tesla #VirtualPowerPlant #VPP #DistributedEnergyResources

Prasanna Venkatesan, Chief Operating Officer of Landis+Gyr, shares how advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has progressed beyond data collection, with AMI 2.0 closing the grid intelligence gap, helping utilities improve affordability. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/89Cz50ZQpNi @landisgyr #LandisGyr #PrasannaVenkatesan #AMI #AMI20 #AdvancedMeteringInfrastructure

A new analysis from the National Hydropower Association says mandatory licensing conditions for U.S. hydropower projects have increased roughly tenfold since 1980. The trade group says the growing regulatory burden could put some existing hydropower plants—particularly smaller facilities—at risk of shutting down rather than undergoing costly, lengthy relicensing proceedings. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/V8lh50ZQpMB @NatlHydroAssoc #NationalHydropowerAssociation #NHA #Hydropower #HydroelectricPower #HydropowerLicensing

Harnessing the electricity supercycle to build US energy stability ow.ly/GRnE106F9Yy #GridModernization #News #PowerGrid #SmartGrids #Solar #DTECH #ReliabilityandResilience #Renewables

DOE targets next-gen geothermal development with $99M for field-scale tests, exploration drilling ow.ly/JZB9106F7OG #Business #News #ProjectDevelopment #Renewables