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December 12, 2024

Power Moves: Billions in Benefits for the Midwest’s Transmission System

James Gignac
Midwest Senior Policy Manager

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December 12, 2024

Massive Investments in the Midwest Grid are Worth Celebrating

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

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December 3, 2024

$12 Billion Can Get You the Wrong Kind of Attention

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

City skyline with data connections over it

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October 16, 2024

Powering the Data Boom: How Will the Grid Keep Up?

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

An electrical transformer, power lines and a tree rest in the yard of a house.

Bruce Bennett/Getty Images

September 19, 2024

The Electricity Distribution System Can Stay Resilient in Extreme Weather

Guest Commentary

A dispatch board shows the distribution of the state's electricity at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) Alhambra Control Center after a Stage 1 power emergency was announced in 2006.

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June 10, 2024

Want to Connect Clean Energy to California’s Power Grid? Get in Line (Part 2 of 3)

Vivian Yang
Western States Energy Analyst

two workers and an electricity transmission line

Weiquan Lin/Getty Images

April 16, 2024

What’s Stalling the Transition to a Modern Electricity Grid?

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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February 13, 2024

Grid Investments are Critical to Our Clean Energy Future

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

August 4, 2023

Batteries Now Can Replace Old Power Plants

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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April 13, 2023

Ask a Scientist: The Electric Car and Power Grid’s Shared Future

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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February 21, 2023

A Better Way of Paying for a Reliable Electricity Grid

Guillermo Pereira
Former Contributor

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September 7, 2022

Failure to Plan Could Create an Energy Crisis

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

in this low-angle photo of a power transmission tower, a blue sky is visible and in the foreground, a white power transmission tower connected to power lines

Jinyang Liu/Unsplash

July 25, 2022

Boosting Michigan’s Energy Future with Regional Transmission Upgrades

James Gignac
Midwest Senior Policy Manager

This photo shows a solar panel array on the grounds of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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July 25, 2022

Overdue Grid Improvements Will Help Illinois Achieve Energy Goals

Meghan Hassett
Former Contributor

May 18, 2022

Why We Can Send A Rover To Mars, But We Can’t Send An Electron From New York to California

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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February 2, 2022

California Utilities Shut Off Power for Fewer People, But Too Many Are Still in the Dark

Mark Specht
Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst

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January 11, 2021

Should the Electric Grid Be Antiracist?

Joseph Daniel
Former Contributor

September 25, 2017

Rebuilding Puerto Rico’s Devastated Electricity System

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability