India’s Grids Must Now Be Smart Enough For Clean Power

India is building the world’s first large-scale smart grid for renewables—and Rajasthan’s solar-powered blueprint may show the Global South how to electrify its future.

Europe’s second chance: The rise of a new battery ecosystem
Europe’s second chance: The rise of a new battery ecosystem

Europe’s battery ambitions took a major hit with the collapse of Northvolt, once seen as the continent’s best chance to rival Chinese competitors and build a homegrown supply chain. But since then, w…

IEEE Smart Village Is Helping to Electrify Rural Cameroon
IEEE Smart Village Is Helping to Electrify Rural Cameroon

More than 30 years ago, in the mountain village of Mbem in northwest Cameroon, the moon and stars in the night sky were the only light young Jude Numfor knew after the sunset. Electricity had not yet reached his rural community.“There was one person i…

Planning For The End Of The Oil Age

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at mining copper with AI-powered robots and using weed-killing lasers instead of chemicals for healthier farming

ENVIOTECH raises €1M pre-seed for smart street lighting

Frankfurt-based smart city startup ENVIOTECH has secured €1 million inpre-seed funding to advance its intelligent retrofit solutions for publicstreet lighting. The round was led by Jürgen Fitschen, wi…

The Geopolitical Tax: Why Grid Stagnation Is A National Security Risk

In the race for AI supremacy, the copper in the ground matters as much as the silicon in the chip.

Mythos Is The AI The Grid Should Fear, And The One It Needs

Can AI improve the very grid it demands so much from? Emerging AI models, like Anthropic’s Mythos, are at once the grid’s biggest threat and its most powerful defense.

Finding Hidden Geothermal Power With AI

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how SpaceX’s IPO could leave Tesla eating rocket dust and the need for better forest management in a warming world

Modeling and Simulation Approaches for Modern Power System Studies
Modeling and Simulation Approaches for Modern Power System Studies

This webinar covers power system modeling and simulation across multiple timescales, from quasi-static 8760 analysis through EMT studies, fault classification, and inverter-based resource grid integration.What Attendees will LearnProgrammatic network …

Europe urged to become first “electro-continent” with 50% electrification target by 2040

A coalition of major European investors, corporations and high-growth startups today published an open letter to European policymakers and leaders, calling for a commitment to make Europe the world’s …