Data centers are absorbing grid capacity that manufacturers need for expansion, forcing executives to treat power access as a site selection variable.

Volvo is putting greener materials inside its newest truck cabs. The move brings recycled plastics, fibers and certified wood into VNL and VNR models.

PJM has issued multiple grid reliability alerts as extreme heat pushes electricity demand toward a potential summer record across the Mid-Atlantic.

With median interconnection timelines approaching five years, facilities teams are redesigning project sequencing around a queue that most enterprise plans never accounted for.

CFOs entering Q3 face a triage question: which infrastructure-dependent projects can actually execute on their original timelines, and what changes next.

Senior energy officials from Qatar, the U.S., Nigeria, and Algeria are urging the EU to clarify methane rules before 2027 import requirements begin, warning of rising supply disruption risk.

Infrastructure constraints on power, water and permits are structural, not cyclical. Executives still planning around their resolution are planning for an environment that doesn't exist.

For many commercial customers, electricity is one of the largest recurring operating expenses. It affects budgets, margins, facility operations, and long-term planning. Yet many businesses still …

Operators cannot control power demand growth, infrastructure upgrade timelines, permitting contest rates or capital selectivity. What they can control is how early those realities enter their planning

Grid queues, water access, permitting risk and capital timing are converging on the same projects. That is changing how executives plan for Q3.

Smart meters and distributed solar are reaching clinics, factories, and households faster than utilities and regulators can align on cyber readiness. Drawing on World Bank sector assessment practice, Lior Tabansky argues coordination has to come before the next rollout wave — not after.

Honda and QuantumScape are deepening solid-state battery research. The work could shape future EV batteries, but scale remains the real test.

World Athletics' 2026 midpoint review shows what happens when sustainability stops being a pledge and becomes a contractual deliverable embedded in event hosting requirements.

For years, organizations optimized for efficiency. In today's operating environment, excess capacity is increasingly becoming a strategic asset organizations can't quickly replicate.

Rock Tech’s Victory option adds lithium upside in Northwestern Ontario. The deal supports its push to link exploration with future conversion capacity.

A new University of Wyoming project highlights how DOE increasingly views coal plants as platforms for critical minerals, water savings, and carbon capture.

Illinois HB1700 expands state authority over renewable energy siting disputes, signaling a broader shift toward accelerating project development.

For years, uncertainty justified delay. Increasingly, uncertainty itself is becoming the cost organizations can no longer afford to absorb.

The projects moving forward in the second half of 2026 are increasingly defined by infrastructure readiness, permitting certainty, and execution feasibility rather than projected returns alone.

Planned 2027 launch builds on experience supporting more than 25 utility-led virtual power plant programs in the United States