Explore what drives energy demand, how it changes over time, and why it matters for grids, markets, and technology.
Solar power can become so abundant in the middle of the day that it creates a completely different problem for the electricity grid: too much power at noon, then a frantic scramble for electricity after sunset. That strange pattern is called the duck curve. Here’s what it is, why it happens, and why batteries, EVs, flexible demand, and smarter grids may finally teach the duck some manners.
Do you want to know how much electricity you will need tomorrow, next week, or next year? Do you wonder how the weather, the economy, and the technology will affect the energy supply and demand? If yes, then you are interested in energy forecasting.
AI looks invisible, but it behaves like heavy industry in disguise. Every prompt wakes up chips, cooling systems, power electronics, and entire data centers that already consume electricity on the scale of countries. This is AI’s energy problem in plain English: what it is, why it exists, how big it is now, and why it matters.