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What’s a life worth to the EPA? – This Week in Cleantech (Fri, 23 Jan 2026)
On this episode of the This Week in Cleantech podcast, Maxine Joselow from the New York Times discusses the EPA's decision to stop assigning a dollar value to lives saved in cost-benefit analyses for major air pollution rules.
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Data and the DSO transition: How distribution utilities are using human-guided intelligence to make faster, more complex decisions (Fri, 23 Jan 2026)
Utilities face challenges in the DSO transition, including data fragmentation and AI integration, as laid out in an on-demand webcast on Factor This.
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How utilities are making the grid more reliable with condition-based transformer monitoring (Thu, 22 Jan 2026)
In an on-demand webcast on Factor This, Reinhausen evaluates how utilities are transitioning to condition-based transformer maintenance to improve performance and life expectancy of critical power equipment.
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Trump administration scraps multimillion-dollar solar projects in Puerto Rico as grid crumbles (Thu, 22 Jan 2026)
The Trump administration canceled solar projects in Puerto Rico, impacting low-income families amid ongoing power outages.
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‘We’ve got to have it all’ – POWERGEN 2026 opening keynote stresses the perils of being picky (Thu, 22 Jan 2026)
POWERGEN 2026's Opening Keynote brought together leaders from utilities, engineering firms, technology providers and the research community to examine how the industry is responding to rapid change.
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‘We could have a problem’ POWERGEN 2026’s second Keynote takes stock of the grid (Wed, 21 Jan 2026)
At the Tuesday afternoon Keynote at POWERGEN 2026, hosted in San Antonio, Texas, energy executives shared how their regions are responding to grid challenges.
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Evolving cyber attacks are threatening the grid, but a new era of security monitoring has arrived (Wed, 21 Jan 2026)
Fortinet hosted a webcast on cybersecurity for utilities, discussing NERC CIP-015-1 requirements and the need for enhanced network security.
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Energy demand curves and bridge power for data centers define connections and conversations at POWERGEN 2026 (Wed, 21 Jan 2026)
POWERGEN is focused on the evolving technologies and opportunities within both traditional and renewable power generation.
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Judge allows a third offshore wind project to resume construction as the industry challenges Trump (Tue, 20 Jan 2026)
A federal judge ruled that Dominion Energy Virginia can resume work on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, allowing construction to proceed.
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As data centers jostle to get on Texas’ grid, ERCOT promises new rules for ‘Batch Zero’ (Tue, 20 Jan 2026)
The group would include large power users who’ve been waiting a long time for interconnection and don’t need further study. It’s ERCOT’s first attempt at a new planning process in which multiple requests will be considered simultaneously.
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