AAAS: "Scientists have only discovered a tiny fraction of living insect species." From half-meter-long moths to fairy wasps smaller than sand grains, insects come in a stunning variety of shapes and ...

By Kennedy Maize Fuel cells, a proven way to make electricity without combustion, fission, or gravity, are making serious inroads into the red-hot market for producing power for artificial ...

Two highly relevant metrics for analysing energy operations—which invariably involve the interest of various companies and institutions—are $/kWh and kWh/activity. $/kWh refers to the cost of all ...

When utility professionals think about grid modernization, the conversation naturally gravitates toward large-scale upgrades: high-voltage transmission lines, massive utility-scale storage, and ...

Electrification power struggles are intensifying in the energy octagon. Resilience and agility will separate winners from ...

The bipartisan squeeze: 80% of respondents “feel helpless” to control what they’re charged for gas or electricity. This concern bridges party lines and paychecks—74% of $100K+ households are worried, ...

The Trump administration and its Department of Energy have made Canada, who many Americans other than Donald Trump consider our closest ally and good friend, happy. Last week (June 23), DOE’s loan ...

Droop is a control mechanism used in power generators to share the load between multiple generators. The droop level is the amount of frequency deviation from the nominal frequency that a generator ...

Here’s some critical mineral news: The US and Canada could be sitting on enough rare-earth deposits to curb reliance on Chinese imports. These elements are essential to increasingly key tech like ...

FERC took historic action today to speed up grid connections for AI data centers and other large electricity users (20+ MW). Instead of the usual slow rulemaking process, FERC issued customized orders ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s 90-day orders to keep coal-fired generating plants running “have been used almost exclusively to prevent the retirement of aging, uneconomic coal units—some of them ...

Peace out: 122 projects left the grid operator’s queue in May—that’s nearly half of SPP’s biggest-ever interconnection cluster (mostly consisting of renewable and battery projects). What scared them ...