EV charging
Highway EV charging will need a ton of power — sooner than you think
A new report warns that EV charging along Northeast highways will require sports-stadium levels of grid power by 2030. Where are the plans to supply it?
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Transmission
Fixing the US power grid: A challenge for 2023 and beyond
Lack of investment in the country’s transmission grids has become a huge roadblock to clean energy and reliable power. Will 2023 be the year things start to change?
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A giant clean-energy transmission line to New York City is now underway
Construction has begun on the 339-mile Champlain Hudson Power Express, which will deliver Canadian hydropower to NYC as the city retires fossil fuel plants.
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NY project will use high-tech sensors to get more clean energy onto grid
National Grid and LineVision are expanding the capacity of New York’s grid to carry greater amounts of wind power. Why aren’t more U.S. utilities doing the same?
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Podcast
Getting more energy on the wires
Lack of transmission is a massive bottleneck for the energy transition. How do we fix it?
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Manchin's permitting-reform bill splits Dems, pro-renewables groups
The transmission-buildout process is broken — but is the chance to fix it worth the perks and giveaways to the fossil industry?
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Emissions reduction
Open-sourcing the grid emissions data needed for 24/7 clean energy
Startup Singularity is sharing data on hourly U.S. power-grid emissions. It wants energy markets, governments and companies like Google and Microsoft to use it — and to disclose their own data too.
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Transmission
New software can find more room for clean energy on transmission grids
Grid-enhancing technologies include high-tech software that can uncover more interconnection options for new wind and solar power projects.
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Transmission
How to move more power with the transmission lines we already have
Grid-enhancing technologies enable us to get more out of existing power lines. Here’s an in-depth look at one such technology: dynamic line rating.
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Transmission
FERC has a new plan to connect clean energy to the grid more quickly
Federal regulators have proposed major reforms to clear huge backlogs of solar, wind and storage projects waiting to interconnect to U.S. power grids.
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Guides and how-tos
The power grid explained — plus demand response, virtual power plants and more
Canary Media defines the concepts that are key to a clean, distributed electricity system, from "behind the meter" to "balancing the grid."
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