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Environment
fromFortune
2 months agoYour electricity bill keeps rising. Here's what's actually causing it-and how to fix it | Fortune
Rising retail electricity prices stem from structural issues including surging demand, increased infrastructure spending, and regulatory models that reward utility overspending, while proposed fixes like rate freezes and permit blocks would worsen the problem.
Business
from24/7 Wall St.
1 month agoStifel Raises MasTec's Price Target as Transmission Surveys Hit Record Highs: Is This Infrastructure Stock About to Break Out?
MasTec's stock price target was raised to $401 due to strong Q1 project activity, indicating robust demand in the infrastructure buildout supercycle.
fromTechCrunch
2 months agoGoogle and Tesla think we're managing the electrical grid all wrong | TechCrunch
The group points out, correctly, that the grid is designed for brief bursts of high demand; most of the time there's lots of capacity that goes unused. Utilize thinks that should change. The group argues that smarter ways to use that capacity already exist. Utilize name checks a number of those solutions, including battery storage, demand response, and virtual power plants, all of which have emerged en masse over the last decade, but remain under utilized.
Toronto startup
Toronto startup
fromBoston.com
2 months agoLargest energy storage facility statewide gets approved for construction in Everett
Jupiter Power secured state approval to build Massachusetts's largest battery energy storage system on a former ExxonMobil tank farm site in Everett, using lithium-ion technology to store excess grid energy.
Tech industry
fromFortune
2 months agoYour utility bills keep going up. Here's everyone you can blame-AI data centers included | Fortune
Electric and natural gas bills surged as major inflation drivers in 2025, with utilities requesting record $31 billion in rate hikes amid aging infrastructure, climate impacts, and AI data center demand.
Startup companies
fromTechCrunch
3 months agoExclusive: Why investors are going gaga over solid-state transformers | TechCrunch
Solid-state transformers replace aging mechanical transformers with power-electronics that enable monitoring, control, and flexible AC/DC conversion, improving grid responsiveness and data center power management.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechzine Global
6 months agoSchneider Electric launches One Digital Grid Platform for grid management
One Digital Grid Platform modernizes grids with modular planning, operations, asset management, AI-driven outage recovery, hybrid Azure cloud for resilience, reliability, reduced energy costs.
from24/7 Wall St.
7 months agoIncome Utility Stocks To Buy For AI (BLK, EQT, KMI, CEG)
24/7 Wall St. hosts Doug McIntyre and Lee Jackson analyze a major move by BlackRock to acquire the utility company AES, describing it as the beginning of a larger wave of consolidation across the utility and banking sectors. It could signal how companies like BlackRock might be positioning themselves to control the energy sources needed to power data centers and AI infrastructure.
Business
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
8 months agoAWS head of Energy & Utilities: AI is the grid's turning point-and its salvation | Fortune
The aging U.S. electric grid, strained by rising renewables and staffing shortages, requires immediate modernization using AI, real-time data, machine learning, and automation.
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