Louisiana SCR 68 creates a blockchain task force with no seats for utility regulators or grid planners, a structural gap other states have moved to close through energy oversight requirements.
Durham's Society 5.0 model shows how integrated infrastructure intelligence is becoming a material factor in corporate investment and workforce decisions in 2026.
ISO New England's 2026 CELT Report adds its first behind-the-meter battery forecast and flags a winter peak timing problem tied to heat pump adoption growth through 2035.
The companies that built their energy strategy around efficiency are discovering a gap between what that strategy promised and what it has delivered.
A 40,000-acre hyperscale data center and power generation campus cleared its first regulatory hurdle in northern Utah this week.
Efficiency upgrades in commercial buildings are delivering diminishing returns. What facility managers need to know about the economics and what to prioritize next.
California’s $20M Project Nexus has completed construction on the first U.S. solar-covered irrigation canal, measuring water savings, power generation, and maintenance cost reductions simultaneously.
AI infrastructure build-out is running into a constraint capital can't solve: the grid can't deliver megawatts as fast as investment wants to move.
Most organizations have an energy plan. Fewer have a strategy built on current infrastructure realities. The difference will become measurable and expensive over the next 18 months.
Virginia enacted SB508 April 22, directing Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power to assess unused solar interconnection capacity and pilot storage programs.
NERC flagged more regions at elevated grid risk than any prior assessment. Demand response enrollment windows are closing. Backup systems need testing before the season starts.
Experts at CMU Energy Week debated whether DERs are ready to help utilities manage surging electricity demand from data centers, electrification, and reshoring.
Industrial facilities are restructuring shift schedules around grid availability. In high-congestion markets, load flexibility has become a condition of grid access, not just a revenue opportunity.
Virtual PPAs were built for a grid with room to grow. As congestion spreads and basis risk climbs, procurement teams need a new contracting playbook for current grid conditions.
The EU's AccelerateEU plan responds to the Strait of Hormuz closure with fuel, grid, and clean energy actions that affect companies with European operations.
The assumption that power would always be available when a business needed it is no longer reliable — and that shift has consequences that go well beyond the facilities budget.
In agriculture, materials, transport, and heavy manufacturing, absolute emissions haven't fallen at the required pace. The gap isn't about ambition — it's about structural constraints
Grid constraints, ESG complexity, and supply chain pressure are not waiting for Q3.
Virginia’s SB651 could expand the state’s underground transmission pilot program, raising questions about cost-sharing, project eligibility, and impacts on local utilities and ratepayers.
The New Orleans City Council has paused key community solar project deadlines while Entergy New Orleans reviews its Direct Transfer Trip standards — with updated guidance due by late April 2026.