Energy Markets & Planning at Berkeley Lab
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Advanced technologies for transmission and distribution (T&D) can increase capacity and improve electricity reliability and affordability. But they don’t easily scale under traditional regulatory practices. “Sandboxes” reduce barriers to deploying these innovative technologies. <THREAD>
January 9, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Advanced technologies for transmission and distribution (T&D) can increase capacity and improve electricity reliability and affordability. But they don’t easily scale under traditional regulatory practices. “Sandboxes” reduce barriers to deploying these innovative technologies. <THREAD>
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The recording of yesterday's policy forum on data centers and resource use, co-hosted with the MSU Institute of Public Policy & Social Research, is now online. Thanks to our panelists for sharing their expertise: Dr. Ryan Wiser (LBNL), Dr. Dong Zhao (MSU), and Mr. Douglas Jester (5 Lakes Energy).
Data Driven: The Facts about Data Centers in Michigan
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December 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The recording of yesterday's policy forum on data centers and resource use, co-hosted with the MSU Institute of Public Policy & Social Research, is now online. Thanks to our panelists for sharing their expertise: Dr. Ryan Wiser (LBNL), Dr. Dong Zhao (MSU), and Mr. Douglas Jester (5 Lakes Energy).
Next Tuesday: join this free webinar on distributed energy resources from @berkeleylab.lbl.gov.
Learn how to maintain a reliable and secure grid with distributed energy resources.
Join @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and panelists from the Georgia PSC, @nreca.bsky.social Puget Sound Energy, and @nationalgrid.bsky.social for a free i2X webinar on Dec 16.
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Join @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and panelists from the Georgia PSC, @nreca.bsky.social Puget Sound Energy, and @nationalgrid.bsky.social for a free i2X webinar on Dec 16.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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The Institute of Public Utilities is proud to be teaming up with the MSU Institute of Public Policy & Social Research on their 12/16 policy forum! The event will be recorded.
Topic: Data centers and energy/water use
Guests: Ryan Wiser (LBNL), Douglas Jester (5 Lakes Energy), and Dong Zhao (MSU).
Topic: Data centers and energy/water use
Guests: Ryan Wiser (LBNL), Douglas Jester (5 Lakes Energy), and Dong Zhao (MSU).
Data Centers | Institute for Public Policy and Social Research
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December 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Institute of Public Utilities is proud to be teaming up with the MSU Institute of Public Policy & Social Research on their 12/16 policy forum! The event will be recorded.
Topic: Data centers and energy/water use
Guests: Ryan Wiser (LBNL), Douglas Jester (5 Lakes Energy), and Dong Zhao (MSU).
Topic: Data centers and energy/water use
Guests: Ryan Wiser (LBNL), Douglas Jester (5 Lakes Energy), and Dong Zhao (MSU).
Learn how to maintain a reliable and secure grid with distributed energy resources.
Join @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and panelists from the Georgia PSC, @nreca.bsky.social Puget Sound Energy, and @nationalgrid.bsky.social for a free i2X webinar on Dec 16.
Register: lbnl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and panelists from the Georgia PSC, @nreca.bsky.social Puget Sound Energy, and @nationalgrid.bsky.social for a free i2X webinar on Dec 16.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Learn how to maintain a reliable and secure grid with distributed energy resources.
Join @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and panelists from the Georgia PSC, @nreca.bsky.social Puget Sound Energy, and @nationalgrid.bsky.social for a free i2X webinar on Dec 16.
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Join @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and panelists from the Georgia PSC, @nreca.bsky.social Puget Sound Energy, and @nationalgrid.bsky.social for a free i2X webinar on Dec 16.
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Join @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and panelists from the Georgia PSC, @nreca.bsky.social, Puget Sound Energy, and @nationalgrid.bsky.social for a free i2X webinar on Dec 16. Learn solutions for maintaining a reliable and secure grid with distributed energy resources. Register: lbnl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Join @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and panelists from the Georgia PSC, @nreca.bsky.social, Puget Sound Energy, and @nationalgrid.bsky.social for a free i2X webinar on Dec 16. Learn solutions for maintaining a reliable and secure grid with distributed energy resources. Register: lbnl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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🏅 Former Berkeley Lab senior scientist John Clarke has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. His research on quantum tunneling in electric circuits paved the way for today’s quantum computers and sensors. 🧠 This brings LBNL’s Nobel count to 17!
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Former Berkeley Lab Scientist John Clarke Wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize committee honored former Berkeley Lab scientist John Clarke for research in quantum tunneling in electric circuits.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🏅 Former Berkeley Lab senior scientist John Clarke has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. His research on quantum tunneling in electric circuits paved the way for today’s quantum computers and sensors. 🧠 This brings LBNL’s Nobel count to 17!
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We are chuffed to have 6 postdocs representing #TeamBioSci in the 8th annual @berkeleylab.lbl.gov Research SLAM tomorrow, Thurs Sept 18 @ 3 PM PDT! Lab staff can attend live on the Hill or tune in virtually and cast votes for the People's Choice Award. Everyone else, watch this space for updates!
September 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We are chuffed to have 6 postdocs representing #TeamBioSci in the 8th annual @berkeleylab.lbl.gov Research SLAM tomorrow, Thurs Sept 18 @ 3 PM PDT! Lab staff can attend live on the Hill or tune in virtually and cast votes for the People's Choice Award. Everyone else, watch this space for updates!
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💡 New Transmission Paper alert 💡
“Electric transmission value and its drivers in United States power markets” just went live in Nature Communications! Kudos especially to Julie Mulvaney Kemp for getting this work to the finish line.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
“Electric transmission value and its drivers in United States power markets” just went live in Nature Communications! Kudos especially to Julie Mulvaney Kemp for getting this work to the finish line.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
September 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
💡 New Transmission Paper alert 💡
“Electric transmission value and its drivers in United States power markets” just went live in Nature Communications! Kudos especially to Julie Mulvaney Kemp for getting this work to the finish line.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
“Electric transmission value and its drivers in United States power markets” just went live in Nature Communications! Kudos especially to Julie Mulvaney Kemp for getting this work to the finish line.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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🔌 New Journal Article Alert 🔌
Backup power or bill savings? How electricity tariffs impact residential solar-plus-storage usage in the United States
I'm happy to announce has recently been published, open-access, in Utilities Policy 👇
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Backup power or bill savings? How electricity tariffs impact residential solar-plus-storage usage in the United States
I'm happy to announce has recently been published, open-access, in Utilities Policy 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
🔌 New Journal Article Alert 🔌
Backup power or bill savings? How electricity tariffs impact residential solar-plus-storage usage in the United States
I'm happy to announce has recently been published, open-access, in Utilities Policy 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Backup power or bill savings? How electricity tariffs impact residential solar-plus-storage usage in the United States
I'm happy to announce has recently been published, open-access, in Utilities Policy 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Join a free i2X webinar to discuss innovations in allocating interconnection-related costs for distribution upgrades among beneficiaries for economic efficiency. September 29.
With panelists from @Mass_DPU, @NMPRC1, @New_Leaf_Energy, and @Current_Energy_.
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With panelists from @Mass_DPU, @NMPRC1, @New_Leaf_Energy, and @Current_Energy_.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Join a free i2X webinar to discuss innovations in allocating interconnection-related costs for distribution upgrades among beneficiaries for economic efficiency. September 29.
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With panelists from @Mass_DPU, @NMPRC1, @New_Leaf_Energy, and @Current_Energy_.
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🧪 🥼 🥽 Looking for tools to answer questions related to energy and infrastructure security? Now's your chance to apply for an investigator role at Berkeley Lab's @jgi.doe.gov.
Apply today! ⬇️
Deadline: September 9
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Are YOU a researcher in need of genomics tools to answer questions related to energy & infrastructure security? 🖥️🧬
If you haven’t led a project w/the JGI, now is your chance! Deadline SEPT. 9: jointgeno.me/CSPnewPI
Learn more in our Proposal FAQ: jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us...
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If you haven’t led a project w/the JGI, now is your chance! Deadline SEPT. 9: jointgeno.me/CSPnewPI
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CSP New Investigator Call | Joint Genome Institute
The CSP New Investigator Call is for investigators and research initiatives new to the JGI. Projects must be independent of ongoing JGI proposals, and lead PIs cannot have been lead PI on any previous...
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August 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🧪 🥼 🥽 Looking for tools to answer questions related to energy and infrastructure security? Now's your chance to apply for an investigator role at Berkeley Lab's @jgi.doe.gov.
Apply today! ⬇️
Deadline: September 9
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Apply today! ⬇️
Deadline: September 9
Please share!
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"Innovation is often limited by infrastructure, but the rapid growth of #AI data centers presents a unique opportunity to build next-gen energy systems from the ground up," says @berkeleylabemp.bsky.social's Arman Shehabi (via @financialtimes.com)
Inside the AI race: can data centres ever truly be green?
Energy demand for training machines and running apps is driving a surge of investment into fossil fuels
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August 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"Innovation is often limited by infrastructure, but the rapid growth of #AI data centers presents a unique opportunity to build next-gen energy systems from the ground up," says @berkeleylabemp.bsky.social's Arman Shehabi (via @financialtimes.com)
The huge new Eland solar + storage plant is now online, serving @ladwp.com.
It is one of hundreds of “hybrid” clean power plants in the U.S., according to our research at emp.lbl.gov/hybrid.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
It is one of hundreds of “hybrid” clean power plants in the U.S., according to our research at emp.lbl.gov/hybrid.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Major clean power plant serving L.A. goes fully online in Kern County
An immense solar-plus-storage power plant in the desert is now pumping out inexpensive clean electricity at full bore.
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August 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The huge new Eland solar + storage plant is now online, serving @ladwp.com.
It is one of hundreds of “hybrid” clean power plants in the U.S., according to our research at emp.lbl.gov/hybrid.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
It is one of hundreds of “hybrid” clean power plants in the U.S., according to our research at emp.lbl.gov/hybrid.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Join us August 21 for an i2X webinar on how closer alignment between distributed energy interconnection and long-term grid planning can improve economic efficiency and reduce costs. Panelists include Eversource, NC Utilities Commission, and the NY PSC.
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August 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Join us August 21 for an i2X webinar on how closer alignment between distributed energy interconnection and long-term grid planning can improve economic efficiency and reduce costs. Panelists include Eversource, NC Utilities Commission, and the NY PSC.
Register here: lbnl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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“Regulatory sandboxes” allow utilities to test and scale innovations in a structured environment. Learn how they are being applied to advanced grid technologies on a free @BerkeleyLab webinar. August 13, 2pm Eastern/ 11 am Pacific. Register at naruc-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
August 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“Regulatory sandboxes” allow utilities to test and scale innovations in a structured environment. Learn how they are being applied to advanced grid technologies on a free @BerkeleyLab webinar. August 13, 2pm Eastern/ 11 am Pacific. Register at naruc-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Advanced grid technologies don’t easily scale under traditional regulatory approaches. “Regulatory sandboxes” allow utilities to test innovations in a structured environment and rapidly scale successful approaches. Our new report talks about how to do that. <THREAD> 💡🔌
July 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Advanced grid technologies don’t easily scale under traditional regulatory approaches. “Regulatory sandboxes” allow utilities to test innovations in a structured environment and rapidly scale successful approaches. Our new report talks about how to do that. <THREAD> 💡🔌
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One in four US households face energy insecurity. Research by Madeline Yozwiak, done in partnership with @berkeleylabemp.bsky.social suggests that rooftop solar panels could improve energy affordability. Yozwiak discusses the findings on Resources Radio.
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Who Benefits from Rooftop Solar—and How Much?, with Madeline Yozwiak
In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Madeline Yozwiak, a PhD candidate at Indiana University Bloomington, about the potential of residential rooftop solar technology to address the gro
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June 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
One in four US households face energy insecurity. Research by Madeline Yozwiak, done in partnership with @berkeleylabemp.bsky.social suggests that rooftop solar panels could improve energy affordability. Yozwiak discusses the findings on Resources Radio.
Listen now: on.soundcloud.com/4sGg1V2TZmAY...
Listen now: on.soundcloud.com/4sGg1V2TZmAY...
This webinar on grid reslience planning for severe storms is starting NOW! Register and join.
Grid Resilience Planning for Severe Storms in the East and Southeast: Join us on June 16, 2–5 pm ET, for an interactive webinar on grid resilience planning. Experts will discuss planning for severe storms and hurricanes and answer questions from participants.
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June 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This webinar on grid reslience planning for severe storms is starting NOW! Register and join.
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From short blips to long blackouts, we're crunching the numbers on power outages. 🧮💡 Our researchers developed tools to estimate the cost of widespread outages. The goal? Help utilities invest smarter—so fewer people lose power. ⬇️
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Berkeley Lab Helps Utilities Understand Power Outage Costs
Tools confirm the need for significant investments to make the U.S. power grid more reliable and secure
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June 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
From short blips to long blackouts, we're crunching the numbers on power outages. 🧮💡 Our researchers developed tools to estimate the cost of widespread outages. The goal? Help utilities invest smarter—so fewer people lose power. ⬇️
@berkeleylabemp.bsky.social
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The Energy Innovator Fellowship is looking for recent grads to help advance solutions at critical energy organizations. Help us spread the word about this (paid!) opportunity.
Learn more: bit.ly/3SVv2de #ExperienceORISE #Energy @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
Learn more: bit.ly/3SVv2de #ExperienceORISE #Energy @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
May 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The Energy Innovator Fellowship is looking for recent grads to help advance solutions at critical energy organizations. Help us spread the word about this (paid!) opportunity.
Learn more: bit.ly/3SVv2de #ExperienceORISE #Energy @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
Learn more: bit.ly/3SVv2de #ExperienceORISE #Energy @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
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The new supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA chips tailored for A.I. calculations, could be the Energy Department's biggest resource for tasks like training A.I. models, says @berkeleylab.lbl.gov's Jonathan Carter. @energygov.bsky.social
Energy Dept. Unveils Supercomputer That Merges With A.I.
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June 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The new supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA chips tailored for A.I. calculations, could be the Energy Department's biggest resource for tasks like training A.I. models, says @berkeleylab.lbl.gov's Jonathan Carter. @energygov.bsky.social
Grid Resilience Planning for Severe Storms in the East and Southeast: Join us on June 16, 2–5 pm ET, for an interactive webinar on grid resilience planning. Experts will discuss planning for severe storms and hurricanes and answer questions from participants.
Register: lbnl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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June 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Grid Resilience Planning for Severe Storms in the East and Southeast: Join us on June 16, 2–5 pm ET, for an interactive webinar on grid resilience planning. Experts will discuss planning for severe storms and hurricanes and answer questions from participants.
Register: lbnl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register: lbnl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The Energy Innovator Fellowship is looking for recent grads to help advance solutions at critical energy organizations. Help us spread the word about this (paid!) opportunity.
Learn more: bit.ly/3SVv2de #ExperienceORISE #Energy @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
Learn more: bit.ly/3SVv2de #ExperienceORISE #Energy @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
May 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The Energy Innovator Fellowship is looking for recent grads to help advance solutions at critical energy organizations. Help us spread the word about this (paid!) opportunity.
Learn more: bit.ly/3SVv2de #ExperienceORISE #Energy @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
Learn more: bit.ly/3SVv2de #ExperienceORISE #Energy @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
Our @josephrand.bsky.social is quoted on how the interconnection process is going in the Pacific Northwest.
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Oregon and Washington vowed to pioneer green energy—but almost every other state is beating them
Despite being known as liberal bastions, the Pacific Northwest states have added only 1 renewable project over the last 10 years.
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May 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our @josephrand.bsky.social is quoted on how the interconnection process is going in the Pacific Northwest.
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