I was asked by Anna Ribiero from the Industrial Cyber Newsletter about the cybersecurity of Purdue Reference Model Level 0 control system field devices (process sensors, actuators, etc.). Level 0 ...

Robinson Meyer, in a HeatMap article, recently captured a shift now sweeping through statehouses: Democrats are retreating from their own climate ambitions because the cost of implementation is ...

The Trump administration’s latest Department of Energy move to centralize and federalize the U.S. electricity system is drawing fire, including from important FERC veterans, Republicans and Democrats ...

Utilities might be slightly over-hyping the data center boom, according to a new reality check from Grid Strategies. (Utility Dive) The discrepancy: Utilities currently project 90 GW of new data ...

PJM members held an advisory vote on 12 different plans to handle the data center boom this week…and rejected every single one. (Heatmap) The gridlock: Proposals ranged from forcing tech companies to ...

Environmental purists often oppose the various strategies to capture and/store carbon. They view it as “cheating” and insist we must solve the problem by reducing emissions, which according to them, ...

The projected increase in electricity demand is already stimulating solutions that combine traditional supply via the public grid with energy storage. The rationale is simple! Utility companies often ...

For many years, the value of CTC Global’s ACCC® Conductor has been most visible in reconductoring projects, where utilities have doubled line capacity without replacing or modifying existing ...

What actually happens to electricity prices when renewable generation increases by 1 GWh? New research from Imperial College London and the National Energy System Operator (NESO) answers this question ...

AAAS: “High-resolution climate model forecasts a wet, turbulent future.” Let me start with a story I heard yesterday. One of my writing groups meets remotely, weekly, including 2 participants who live ...

When even the New York Times reports that energy companies are returning to fossil fuels “to stabilize renewable portfolios,” the narrative is over. Solar delivers 0 W at night, wind is curtailed ...

Could AI’s insatiable hunger for power actually fast-track the arrival of commercial fusion by 20 to 30 years? (Axios) Follow the money: Rob Roy, CEO of data center giant Switch, argued this week that ...