EIS InsightsEnergy & Sustainability

The Battery in the Garage Now Has a Second Employer

Home batteries, electric vehicles, smart thermostats and heat pumps were bought to serve households. Increasingly they are also being coordinated in large numbers to support the electricity grid, forming what the industry calls virtual power plants. The model is promising, but i…

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Data Centers Are Starting to Negotiate Directly With Power Plants

AI compute demand is growing faster than most regional power grids can add capacity. Rather than wait years in an interconnection queue, some large operators are now negotiating directly with power generators, funding new dedicated capacity themselves, or locating facilities imm…

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Renewable Energy's Real Bottleneck Isn't the Panels or the Turbines

A finished solar farm sitting empty for years, waiting not for permits or financing but for a place in line to connect to the grid, is becoming a familiar story across the renewable energy sector. The real constraint on clean power increasingly has less to do with generation tec…

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