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Grid planning, storage, reliability, and the decisions that keep utilities, facilities, and communities powered. Written by our engineers, out of the work itself.
A battery doesn't add generation. It moves energy in time, and that changes which question you are answering.
What small modular reactors would actually mean for a distribution system, and how far off any of it is.
Which decisions are cheap to make now and painful to revisit later, and which ones can safely wait.
A 250 MW solar-and-storage facility in Pike County is now running. What it looks like up close.
Lead times are still the binding constraint on most projects, which means the order you make decisions in matters more than the decisions themselves.
Jeff Raufeisen and Jeff Hale retired this year, after two long careers in Indiana's power industry.
When large employers start talking publicly about whether the power is there, capacity planning has stopped being a background problem.
Indiana is planning a closed-fuel-cycle nuclear park. What FANCO is, and what it would change for planners here.
Wind, ice, moisture and corrosion work on a system slowly enough that nobody notices until a storm finds the weak spot.
The developer says the numbers work. Here is what we check before agreeing with him.