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EVgo Is Adding More Fast Chargers Where You Buy Groceries
More than 400 additional charging stalls are planned at Regency shopping centers, expanding a partnership that dates back to 2020.
R.N.D.I. Sourced News
Sep 100 min read
Agrivoltaics in Virginia
As U.S. farmers face rising costs and threats to their land, on-farm solar panels may offer a critical lifeline.
Farmed Sourced News
Aug 120 min read
Powering Innovation: Data Centers, Compute, and U.S. Competitiveness
Missing from much of this discussion is the strategic role data centers play in enabling innovation.
R.N.D.I. Sourced News
Aug 110 min read
Georgia Needs More Power
Last year, Georgia Power got permission from the state's Public Service Commission to radically increase the amount of electricity the utility generates and sells.
Farmed Sourced News
Aug 100 min read
OK Data Centers and the Grid
Some data centers are building their own power plants. In Oklahoma, most want to plug into the grid.
Farmed Sourced News
Aug 60 min read
WY Data Center Power Demand
Wyoming Wrestles With Unprecedented Power Demand From Massive Data Centers
Farmed Sourced News
Jun 190 min read
Agrivoltaics could help VA farmers stay in business, power electric grid
Virginia is hoping that the concept of agrivoltaics will help farmers continue to produce crops while also helping produce solar energy.
R.N.D.I. Sourced News
Jun 170 min read
Arizona Energy Future Report
Arizona Governor's Office of Resiliency & Institute for Rural Collaboration Release Report to Help Local Communities Advance Energy Future
Farmed Sourced News
Jun 10 min read
Data Centers in Michigan:
Evaluation of Policy Controversies Regarding Hyperscale Data Center Development
R.N.D.I. Sourced News
Jun 10 min read
Saguache County places moratorium on data center projects
County Commissioners want time to determine land use regulations for any rural data center projects
R.N.D.I. Sourced News
May 80 min read
Data Centers: What Stays Local, What Doesn’t
[S]everal local costs and benefits of data centers to communities that host them...
R.N.D.I. Sourced News
Apr 290 min read
Data Centers Going Rural
Nearly 40% of Americans now live within 5 miles of a data center.
Farmed Sourced News
Apr 130 min read
Chicken and Egg: Texas Electricity Transmission
Transmission expansion leads to long-term investment in renewable energy.
Farmed Sourced News
Apr 10 min read
Energy Infrastructure and the Defense Industrial Base
Can the energy infrastructure serving the U.S. defense industrial base sustain production under mobilization?
Farmed Sourced News
Mar 170 min read
Ranchers Say Don’t Bash Us For Using Our Private Property Rights For Wind Energy
Two Wyoming ranchers say diversification of their land is key to their survival and that property owners should have the freedom to decide what to do with their land. That includes allowing wind farms and other energy development.
R.N.D.I. Sourced News
Feb 50 min read
Texas Data Centers: On-Site Generation
[M]odeling and simulation to evaluate the impacts of new loads and generation resources on the grid...
Farmed Sourced News
Feb 10 min read
Duos Edge delivers Edge data center to school district in Hereford, Texas
Firm makes another deployment in the Lone Star State
R.N.D.I. Sourced News
Jan 140 min read
Harnessing New Mexico Wind:
State’s Fight to Win Hearts and Minds for Clean Energy
R.N.D.I. Sourced News
Oct 22, 20250 min read
Understand Small Modular Reactors
SMRs, like large-scale fission reactors, are zero carbon, but they also have the potential to be faster and cheaper to deploy with lower capital costs and efficient mass production in factories.
Gridvocate Sourced News
Sep 3, 20250 min read
Rural Texas: For the State's Future
Rural Texans struggle to access resources that their urban and suburban counterparts take for granted
Farmed Sourced News
Jul 20, 20250 min read
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