Stephen Lacey

The grid may never get an AI superbrain, but a wave of automation is here. Here’s how it can meet new grid challenges.

Could intermittent renewables, bricks, and heating coils be the solution to industrial decarbonization?

After a decade of trying to build an autonomous car, Apple finally killed Project Titan. What happened?

The industry in the U.S. is split over whether new requirements will prevent projects from penciling out.

Utilities are awash in data. How can they unlock it faster?

As utilities scramble to meet new demand, a former Microsoft VP is exploring creative ways to unlock new grid capacity.

As countries race to control battery storage supply chains, many worry about replicating the geopolitical risks of oil. But there are differences from fossil fuels.

Some optimistic and cautionary takes on the investment trends guiding the energy transition

A wide-ranging conversation with Crux’s Alfred Johnson on the trends that are reshaping tax finance.

An Energy Department VPP expert on the imperative for connecting and dispatching distributed resources

As manufacturing capacity ramps up, is a shakeout on the horizon?

AI, manufacturing, and electrification are doubling power demand forecasts. But we don’t need fancy tech breakthroughs to serve it.

‘Without AI, we're stuck in first, and we need to be driving a Ferrari top speed.’

The IRA is widening the market for clean energy financing. But buyers and sellers of tax credits are still figuring it out.

Despite a downturn in the climate tech sector, we may look back on 2023 as the “year of building” the green industrial economy.