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August 21, 2026 8 min read

USDA Will Forgive 40% of These Rural Utility Loans. The Match Cannot Be Borrowed.

The USDA rural utility loan program 2026 forgives up to 40% of a loan. Letters of interest are rolling from September 8, and the match cannot be debt.

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August 16, 2026 11 min read

How to Write Or Equal Specification Language

Or equal specification language decides whether you get three bids or one. What a performance spec has to state, and the review process that keeps equal honest.

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August 12, 2026 7 min read

What Public Grid Data Can't Tell You About Interconnection

GridSolver scores 66,000 neighborhoods on DER value. It is the best free public grid data yet, and it cannot tell you whether you can interconnect.

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August 3, 2026 6 min read

Cooperative Utility Data Center Load Meets a 936 MW Fleet

A cooperative utility data center load of 1.8 GW is landing on a G&T that owns 936 MW. What Kentucky's public dockets show muni and co-op buyers.

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June 27, 2026 6 min read

SPP Western Interconnection Expansion: The Procurement Read

SPP's Western Interconnection expansion put nine co-ops, munis, and WAPA on one grid. Here is what the RTO buildout means for equipment procurement.

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