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October 30, 2026 7 min read

Grid Resilience Formula Grants: How Munis and Co-ops Get In

DOE allocated $967 million in grid resilience formula grants to states, territories and tribes. Here is how a municipal utility or co-op reaches that money, the match it carries, and what it can buy.

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September 13, 2026 9 min read

DOE 2029 Transformer Efficiency Requirements, by kVA

DOE 2029 transformer efficiency requirements are uneven by kVA and phase. Single-phase and three-phase units take their biggest cuts in opposite ranges.

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September 3, 2026 8 min read

TVA Data Center Rate Lands Oct 1 on 153 Distributors

The TVA data center rate takes effect October 1 above 153 municipal and cooperative distributors that deliver 99% of the load it prices.

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August 17, 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 13, 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 4, 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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August 1, 2026 7 min read

IONATE Hybrid Transformer: When to Qualify a New Supplier

IONATE and GM are collaborating to deploy hybrid transformer units at a Michigan plant. A qualification framework for new transformer suppliers.

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July 30, 2026 9 min read

DOE Reopens the 2024 Transformer Efficiency Rule

DOE reopened the distribution transformer efficiency standards on national security grounds. The comment record says repeal is not the risk. The date is.

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July 22, 2026 8 min read

Transformer Bushing Lead Times: The Longest-Lead Component

A May 2026 national lab report names large power transformer bushings the longest-lead item, at up to 130 weeks. How to qualify alternatives in an RFQ.

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June 28, 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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June 27, 2026 6 min read

The Co-op Grid Hardening Playbook: Six Resilience Moves

A Missouri co-op's six-move grid hardening playbook: the equipment a hardening cooperative buys, in order, as it takes on transmission ownership.

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June 26, 2026 6 min read

Grid Modernization Roadmap: Reliability First

A grid modernization roadmap that sequences monitoring, switching, and flexible resources so utilities upgrade aging systems without losing reliability.

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