West Virginia’s new microgrid law creates institutional frameworks for grid defection by data centers and other energy-intensive businesses.
Grid flexibility could have helped avoid the Spain blackout, as South Australia learned nearly a decade ago.
Mining and energy experts will gather on Oct. 7, 2024, at The REACH at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, for the final event in the nine-part Terranaut Minologues: Restoring Trust in Mining, a collaboration of Earthshot Foundation and OurEnergyPolicy.
Ivy Main, the Sierra Club’s renewable energy chairperson, explains how this year’s lack of legislative action will worsen the energy crunch in Virginia brought on by rapid data center development in the state.