Pennsylvania Moves to Prime the Pipeline for PJM’s Expedited Interconnections Developers with big balance sheets and even bigger timelines suddenly have a door cracked open: Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection issued an RFI on March 28 inviting large-scale generation and storage
Christopher Hailstone brings decades of hands-on experience in energy management, renewables, and the operational realities of electricity delivery. He has sat on both sides of the table—advising utilities on grid reliability and helping developers prove out their designs—so he has a visceral feel
Why Cheboygan Became the Focal Point of a Regional Flood Threat Spring’s uneasy alliance of rain and melt turned Northern Michigan’s waterways into a single, fast-moving system with one pivotal hinge: the Cheboygan Lock and Dam Complex, where upstream reservoirs met the narrow outlet to Lake Huron
Persistent dryness blanketed the Missouri River basin in a way that reshaped both expectation and routine, with four consecutive years of shortfall tightening margins for power, navigation, and lake recreation while stopping short of a crisis. Federal managers reported that 83% of the basin was
Families feeling squeezed by relentless bill spikes are forcing regulators to rewrite the playbook on what utilities can spend, recover, and promise, and the resulting rules are starting to change how capital gets approved, how markets are used, and how savings show up on the bill. Affordability,
The massive surge in artificial intelligence and the expansion of the digital landscape have effectively transformed the American power grid into a bottleneck for global innovation. As data centers evolve from localized server rooms into sprawling industrial complexes requiring gigawatts of power,
