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How Data Center-Driven Load Growth Is Reshaping the Renewable Energy Market

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:12:43 +0000

U.S. grid planners are preparing for annual electricity demand growth of about 0.9% to 1.6% through 2050, with data centers emerging as a major driver, and EPRI—the Electric Power Research Institute—suggesting they could account for as much as 17% of U.S. electricity demand by 2030. For the wind, solar, and energy storage industry, this represents […]

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Hydrogen Award Finalist: Total Hydrogen Solutions’ Texas Production Facility

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:30:53 +0000

Late in construction of Total Hydrogen Solutions’ new hydrogen plant in Katy, Texas, someone cut and stole the incoming high-voltage cable. The theft forced a complete replacement of the affected run just as the team was preparing for utility energization. “It was a frustrating hurdle, but the team coordinated the replacement and kept moving toward […]

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Renewable Energy Group Acquires 715-MW Solar Power Portfolio

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:49:22 +0000

ibV Energy Partners, a developer of integrated solar and storage power plants across the U.S., and Exus Renewables North America, an independent owner, developer and operator of utility-scale renewable energy and energy storage projects, on September 29 announced that Exus has acquired four solar projects totaling 715 MWp from ibV. The deal builds on years […]

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POWER’s 2026 Rising Star Award Winner: Jack Southard

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:40:54 +0000

When Arevon Energy needed someone to lead financing on Nighthawk, a 300-MW/1,200-MWh battery storage project the company had been working on when Nimmi Kavasery came onboard as the managing director of Project Finance, she made “a battlefield promotion,” handing the lead role to Jack Southard—someone she’d only observed peripherally and who had never run a […]

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POWER Digest [October 2026]

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:38:36 +0000

Infinigen, a Puerto Rico-based independent power producer, in late August announced the closing of a $33-million tax equity investment in the Yabucoa Solar Project.

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Investment Grows for Storage, Renewable Energy Projects in Chile

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Chile is among the countries that has undergone an energy transformation over the past several years.

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Keeping the Lights On — Smarter Fault Management for Data Center Power Systems

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:42:08 +0000

Data centers commonly deploy looped medium-voltage (MV) distribution systems with automated protection and control schemes to deliver exceptionally high levels of power availability. However, these automation schemes rely on communications infrastructures where latency and scalability can affect fault-response performance. This paper presents a robust, hybrid FLISR strategy that integrates centralized and decentralized control to […]

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Apex Clean Energy Signs PPA with Meta for Solar Power from Texas Project

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:50:49 +0000

Apex Clean Energy announced the Virginia-based company has a power purchase agreement (PPA) with technology giant Meta for exclusive rights to energy from the Starling Solar project in Gonzales County, Texas, including all renewable energy credits. The 144-MW project will add to the local grid new generation that would not have been built without Meta’s […]

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The Business of Power, and the Power of Business

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:04:39 +0000

I have spent my career building companies, and along the way I’ve learned that the technical mastery of a trade and the strategic discipline required to scale a business around it are two fundamentally different competencies. You can be the most capable operator in your field and still not have a business. A business is […]

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The Grid’s Wasted-Power Problem Has a Sector-Coupling Fix

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:02:08 +0000

For most of the last century, electricity and heat have been planned and regulated as two separate systems, a design choice that made sense when both were produced by burning fuel on demand. However, that design is a poor match for how the grid actually runs today. Generation, transmission constraints, and price all shift by […]

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