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Startup nabs $60M for high-tech cables to help speed clean energy rollout

The grid needs much more capacity to bring clean energy online. TS Conductor’s tech could help — and federal and state policies are pushing utilities to adopt it.

By Jeff St. John . 31 July 2024

Carbon composite core being produced at startup TS Conductor's factory in Southern California. — A spool of carbon composite core made at TS Conductor’s factory in Huntington Beach, California. The core will be encapsulated in aluminum to form the advanced power cables the startup is producuing for utilities. (TS Conductor)

Policy & regulation

Biden’s FERC nominee could pave the way for the administration's massive clean energy agenda

D.C. utility regulator Willie Phillips would give Dems the upper hand as the agency tackles transmission, pipelines and distributed energy policies.

By Jeff St. John . 10 September 2021
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Newsletter: New Orleans leaders put off building microgrids, and now the people are paying the price

Advocates tried for years to build local grid resilience.

By Julian Spector . 2 September 2021
Utilities

Urbint pulls in $60M for its AI-powered tool to flag the dangers facing utilities

From pipeline ruptures to wildfires caused by faulty equipment, powering the U.S. grid is risky business.

By Jeff St. John . 25 August 2021
Policy & regulation

Rep. Sean Casten on Hot FERC Summer and how to prepare the US grid for rapid decarbonization

Plus, tips on how to trick people into caring about federal energy regulation.

By David Roberts . 18 August 2021
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Infrastructure bill contains less transmission funding than advertised

The White House says the bill contains $65 billion for "power infrastructure," but only $2.5 billion is explicitly for new power lines.

By Jeff St. John . 17 August 2021
Climate crisis

Supercomputer forecasts are now helping utilities prepare for climate change and extreme weather

New York Power Authority will use a national lab's cutting-edge forecasts to target its multi-billion dollar investments. Other utilities are following suit.

By Jeff St. John . 10 August 2021
Utilities

California's biggest utility plans to bury 10,000 miles of power lines. How much will that cost residents?

Wildfires and other climate disasters are pushing PG&E to put lines underground, but it's a notoriously expensive process.

By Elizabeth McCarthy . 6 August 2021
Clean energy

Here's how we can build clean power infrastructure at huge scale and breakneck speed

A new report outlines the radical reforms and paradigm shifts that decarbonization will demand.

By Jeff St. John . 3 August 2021
Transmission

How digitizing the transmission grid can enable the energy mix of the future

EirGrid and Smart Wires team up to build software that could help Ireland reach its ambitious wind energy goals.

By Jeff St. John . 29 July 2021
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Newsletter: Texas outages made transmission upgrades look cheap

Can framing grid investment as a way to prevent disasters convince more people to support it?

By Julian Spector . 27 July 2021

Transmission

Startup nabs $60M for high-tech cables to help speed clean energy rollout

Biden’s FERC nominee could pave the way for the administration's massive clean energy agenda

Newsletter: New Orleans leaders put off building microgrids, and now the people are paying the price

Urbint pulls in $60M for its AI-powered tool to flag the dangers facing utilities

Rep. Sean Casten on Hot FERC Summer and how to prepare the US grid for rapid decarbonization

Infrastructure bill contains less transmission funding than advertised

Supercomputer forecasts are now helping utilities prepare for climate change and extreme weather

California's biggest utility plans to bury 10,000 miles of power lines. How much will that cost residents?

Here's how we can build clean power infrastructure at huge scale and breakneck speed

How digitizing the transmission grid can enable the energy mix of the future

Newsletter: Texas outages made transmission upgrades look cheap