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How wind farms can avoid reactive power penalties
Reactive power penalties look like a fixed cost of running a wind farm. Many of them are not. Here is where they come from, and how operators can see them coming.
11 October 2026 · 4 min read
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How grid code compliance studies work for renewable connections
Before a solar or wind plant connects, its models must prove the plant meets the grid code. The studies are thorough, repetitive and slow. Here is how they work, and where time can be saved.
11 October 2026 · 3 min read
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Why DER interconnection queues grow, and how utilities can clear them
Applications to connect rooftop solar, batteries and other distributed energy resources are arriving faster than utilities can study them. The bottleneck is rarely the engineering itself.
11 October 2026 · 3 min read
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Time to value is the only AI metric that matters
The first wave of energy AI promised a great deal and delivered little. The next one will be judged on one thing, how quickly it pays back.
6 October 2026 · 4 min read
Case study
What two years of wind data taught us about reactive power penalties
A pilot on two operating wind sites separated avoidable reactive power penalties from unavoidable ones. Most of them turned out to be avoidable.
22 September 2026 · 2 min read
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Why we coexist and connect, and never rip and replace
Legacy systems are excellent at keeping the lights on. They were not built for decisions in real time. The answer is a layer on top, not a replacement.
8 September 2026 · 3 min read
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