Data center developers’ imperative of speed to market not only stresses the power grid but also is felt on the ground as the giant facilities — often paired with onsite generation — spring up in neighborhoods overburdened by pollution.

A new report estimates that solar and battery storage growth in New England between 2025 and 2030 could reduce wholesale energy costs across the region by about $684 million annually by 2030.

Attendees at the gridCONNEXT conference, including the acting under secretary of energy and U.S. representatives, debated federal energy policy.

The California Energy Commission granted about $15 million to private companies to install more than 100 electric vehicle fast chargers in the Golden State.

Ontario approved a $26.8 billion CAD plan to overhaul four aging nuclear reactors that supply approximately 11% of the province’s electricity needs.

The New York Power Authority announced the appointments of Todd Josifovski and Christopher Hanson to its advanced nuclear energy initiative.

In New England, increasing winter reliability concerns are driving questions about how long the region’s aging fleet of oil-fired power plants can, or should, remain on the system.

Planning for the grid of the future requires increasingly sophisticated prognostication, and the industry needs to look to new data sources to model the grid of tomorrow, says columnist Dej Knuckey.