Electric vehicles, heat pumps, rooftop solar, and community batteries have changed where, when, and how electricity flows across distribution feeders, yet the decisive constraint on modernization has quietly been the data describing that network rather than the software orchestrating it or the
Power demand raced ahead of precedent as data centers and new factories asked to connect in months, not years, straining planning playbooks built for gentler times. The shift was not a blip but a structural break: interconnection requests in some regions, notably ERCOT, pointed to a trajectory that
Ava Baineson sits down with Christopher Hailstone, a seasoned utilities expert whose career spans grid reliability, renewable integration, and the delicate choreography of moving sensitive energy data through secure systems. Hailstone has been hands-on with EPRI’s push toward local AI—running
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
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
