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Trump Budget Proposal Slashes Clean Energy Funding

President Donald Trump's proposed 2026 federal budget outlines a significant reallocation of resources, with a notable emphasis on reducing expenditures in clean energy, environmental initiatives, and scientific research. The Department of Energy (DOE) is particularly affected, facing a proposed $19.3 billion cut, which includes substantial reductions in funding for renewable energy programs and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

Proposed Cuts to the Department of Energy

The budget proposal suggests eliminating approximately $15.2 billion...

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Global Warming's Heat Threatens Youth

Global warming is not only a distant concern for the future but a pressing reality today, especially for the younger generations. As climate change intensifies, the planet’s rising temperatures are posing increasingly deadly risks, particularly to the world’s youth. Young people, from...

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Oregon Approves Major Solar and Storage Initiative

Oregon has recently given the green light to one of the largest solar and energy storage projects in the United States, marking a monumental step toward its renewable energy future. The project, known as the Sunstone Project, will feature a massive 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity, along with...

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Deploying Distribution Management Systems

In the spring of 2008, two Duke Energy executives asked me to investigate the necessary requirements to deploy a distribution management system (DMS). At the time, my knowledge of DMS was limited, so I had to conduct a very thorough investigation. When I undertook this project, I did not realize...

NAVIGATING THE UTILITY DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

The Digitisation of utility operations has been evolving at an accelerating pace over the last decade. Many utilities saw this trend developing, and one by one they began their own digital transformation, each on their own path. While each utility is at its own stage of this journey, every utility...

Energy Storage for Grid Security and Modernization

Opportunities for sustained innovation in the energy storage value chain

BY ADAM TUCK, National Research Council of Canada

Canada is in the enviable position of being relatively rich in natural resources and having one of the cleanest, least expensive, and most reliable electricity grids in the world. However, a decrease in infrastructure investments in the 1990s along with an increase in the integration of variable generation such as renewables, and an overall growth in demand means that major infrastructure investments are now overdue to allow for the efficient, reliable, and economic operation of the electricity grid.

The Conference Board...