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What is ‘superhot’ geothermal? Deep rock to baseload power, explained

The next big baseload power plant may not rise on a riverbank or coastal inlet. It may sit on a four‑acre pad in the high desert, quietly punching holes six…

Matt Houde
Quaise Energy
August 3, 2026
Insights

How Customers Are Reshaping the Grid

From homeowners to businesses to AI data centers, customers are investing in distributed energy for their own reasons — and collectively rewiring how the entire electric system evolves. Recorded live…

Elisa Wood
Energy Changemakers Podcast
August 5, 2026
Insights

Speed to Power Doesn’t Mean What It Meant a Year Ago

“Speed to power” is a defining phrase of the data center era. The conversation used to center on one question: How do we build power fast enough to meet AI demand? But that’s changing as the industry increasingly seeks ways to mine the system for spare capacity, flexibility and efficiency.

Elisa Wood
Energy Changemakers
July 19, 2026
In the News

J.P. Morgan Explains the Math Behind the $5-7 Trillion AI Buildout and Where Energy Fits In

Elisa Wood
Energy Changemakers
July 18, 2026
In the News

Flexible Interconnection Models and Frankenstein Microgrids Come Alive at Oregon Conference

At a conference in Bend, Oregon, speakers from Google, GridCARE, Schneider Electric and Think Microgrid offered up innovative ideas for integrating more distributed energy onto the grid. The audience also learned about “Frankenstein microgrids.”

Lisa Cohn
Microgrid Knowledge
July 17, 2026
In the News

Standardizing Chaos: Why the C&I Microgrid Market Deserves a Roadmap

In many cases, no one has actually been tasked with designing the control logic, the sequence of operations, and the comms architecture. The project has been sold, a battery has been selected, and the question lands in our lap: “Who’s programming the relay?”

Jacob Betcher
Mayfield Renewables
July 7, 2026
Insights

An Irresistible Force Collides with an Immovable Object

The technology to transform the electric grid already exists. So why isn’t the transition happening faster?

Elisa Wood
Energy Changemakers
June 21, 2026
Insights

Coming Together for Energy’s Great Transformation [Podcast]

Can the energy industry stop talking to itself and start talking to everyone else? Elisa Wood sits down with Robert W. Cross to talk distributed energy, microgrids, storage, and the human side of the grid transformation.

Elisa Wood
Energy Changemakers
June 16, 2026
Insights

Great Transformation 2026: The Rise of Distributed Energy Resources conference announces speaker list

The Technology Association of Oregon and Outfit today announced speakers for the Great Transformation 2026: The Rise of Distributed Energy Resources, a premier executive summit bringing together 250+ C-suite leaders, policymakers, and cleantech innovators at the Riverhouse Lodge in Bend, Oregon, July 8-10, 2026.

RenewComm
June 10, 2026
Press Resources

The Great Transformation: Oregon’s AI and Energy Evolution [Podcast]

The podcast episode features an in-depth discussion on the Great Transformation event, which focuses on the critical intersection of AI, data centers, and energy innovation in Oregon.

Tech Oregon
March 19, 2026
Insights

Technology Association of Oregon Convened Leaders for Successful Data Centers and Energy Innovation Summit

The Technology Association of Oregon recently hosted The Great Transformation: A Data Center and Energy Innovation Summit at the Riverhouse Lodge in Bend, Oregon, bringing together top minds from technology, energy, and policy sectors to address the rapidly evolving relationship between artificial intelligence, data centers, and clean energy solutions.

TAO
July 31, 2025
In the News

Energy Solutions for Data Centers Aren’t Always Obvious. Take These Ideas.

What We Learned After We Gathered in a Room with Data Center and Distributed Energy Experts

Lisa Cohn
Energy Changemakers
July 19, 2025
Insights

Live! From Bend, Oregon | The Great Transformation 2025 [Video]

On July 10, 2025, the Technology Association of Oregon, in partnership with Xendee, Mayfield Renewables, and Cross Consulting, hosted the inaugural Great Transformation event.

Mayfield Renewables
July 10, 2025
Press Resources

Rising Demand and Energy Innovation Collide at the Great Transformation in Bend, Oregon this July

The energy transition isn’t happening in a silo. Energy exists in a symbiotic relationship with the technologies it powers. That has always been the case — but now, as the transition from fossil fuels to renewables accelerates, the nature of that symbiosis is changing.

Jacob Betcher
Mayfield Renewables
June 12, 2025
Insights