Tactical Energy Group
Daniel Burke
Everything by Daniel Burke · 210 items
- Nucor's $59M St. Joe Steel Grating Expansion Signals a Defensive Play in DeKalb County
- Green Hydrogen for Industrial and C&I Storage
- Redundancy Math: N+1, 2N, and Sizing Onsite Gen
- N+1 and 2N Generator Redundancy Sizing for Commercial & Industrial Facilities
- AES Indiana BlackRock Buyout Reaches FERC While a $71 Million Rate Case Waits Until 2027
- Green Hydrogen for Industrial and C&I Energy Storage: What to Know Before You Commit Capital
- The Permit Trap in Aggregator Enrollment
- Behind-the-Meter Generator Enrollment in Aggregator Programs: The Air Permit Risk C&I Operators Need to Know Before They Sign
- AES Indiana's Phase 2 Rate Increase Takes Effect in January, No Matter What the SPARK Grid Grant Covers
- Commercial and Industrial Heat Pumps
- Commercial and Industrial Heat Pumps: Which Technology Is Right for Your Facility's Thermal Load
- CAFE Rollback, Amazon Greenwood, and SK hynix: Three Pressures Indiana Manufacturers Cannot Treat as Separate
- Indiana's SPARK Grid Grant, Amazon Greenwood, and the Canada Auto Tariff: Three Pressures Hitting Indiana Manufacturers at Once
- State Storage Mandates and Your Battery Deal
- Battery Storage Host Agreements for Commercial and Industrial Facilities: What to Negotiate Before You Sign
- Amazon's Greenwood Robotics Plant, AES Indiana Phase 2, Indiana NRC Agreement State, and Samsung SDI New Carlisle: What Indiana Manufacturers Need to Act on Now
- C&I Solar: Lease, Loan, or PPA
- C&I Solar Financing Options Explained: Solar Leases, PPAs, and Loans for Commercial and Industrial Operators
- NIPSCO IURC Investigation Goes Official, Indiana Industrial Property Assessments Jump 25.8%, and Honda's Ohio Plant Opens a Supplier Window
- When Fixed Charges Eat Your Solar Payback
- Who Pays for the Grid, and How to Push Back
- Process Flow Optimization for Energy
- Thermal Energy Storage for Load Shifting
- Compressed Air System Optimization
- Clean Firm Power: Pay the Premium or Wait
- Demand Response: Load Flexibility as Revenue
- Curtailment Clauses: The Impossible Choice
- Contracted Load vs. Actual Load
- Heat Rejection: The Design Call You Can't Undo
- UPS: Safeguard Critical Loads
- Rate Case Intervention: When It's Worth It
- C-PACE Financing: The Senior Lien Problem
- The Reliability Numbers Behind Your Backup Plan
- Heat Recovery and Waste Heat-to-Power
- How to Sell Your Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Behind the Meter vs. Front of the Meter
- Who Pays When the Hyperscaler Leaves
- EV Fleet V2G: Parked Vehicles as Assets
- HVAC Setpoint Optimization and Scheduling
- Backup Power: Diesel, Gas, or Battery
- AI Energy Management: Find the Waste
- Micronuclear and SMRs: What to Diligence
- C&I Microgrids: Reliability, Cost, Access
- Combined Heat and Power: When It Pays
- Virtual Power Plants: Your Assets, Paid
- Federal Energy Tax Credits: Cut Project Cost
- Demand Charges: Why Using Less Does Not Help
- ICS Cybersecurity for C&I Operators
- BESS for Peak Shaving and Resilience
- VFDs: Cut Motor Energy, Protect Equipment
- LED Retrofits and the Controls That Pay
- Peak Shaving: Cutting Demand Without Chaos
- Load Shifting: When It Works, When It Won't
- Utility Bill Audits and Error Recovery
- FERC Order 2222 and DER Aggregation
- Utility Standby Charges for On-site Generation
- Fixed vs. Variable Charges
- Fuel Adjustment Charges: Cut Your Exposure
- Power Factor Penalties: Find It, Verify It, Fix It
- Demand Ratchets: One Peak, A Year of Cost
- Time-of-Use Rates: When They Save You Money
- Decoding Demand Charges
- Indiana Coal Retention Costs, AES Indiana Rate Increase, and a Transmission Gap Until 2032: What Manufacturers Need to Do Now
- Fixed Charge Escalation and Behind-the-Meter Solar: What C&I Operators Need to Know When the Numbers Stop Adding Up
- Transmission and Distribution Cost Allocation Explained for Commercial & Industrial Operators: Who Pays, How It's Decided, and What You Can Do About It
- DOE Coal Orders, DataOne's $7.5B AI Factory, and $200B in Data Center Migration: What Indiana Manufacturers Pay Next
- Process Flow Optimization for Energy Efficiency: Turn Energy Into a Lever, Not a Line Item
- Indiana Semiconductor Fab Delay, NWI Coal Surcharge & Semiconductor Workforce Gap | TEG Daily September 21, 2026
- Indiana Steel, Coal, and Battery Crisis | TEG Daily September 20, 2026
- AES Indiana Rate Hike, Duke Supreme Court Case & Crane Nuclear: What Indiana Manufacturers Need to Know, TEG Daily September 19, 2026
- Thermal Energy Storage for C&I Load Shifting: Cut Demand Charges with Off-Peak Cooling
- Nucor $492M Indiana Investment & AES Rate Fight | TEG Daily September 18, 2026
- Compressed Air System Optimization for Industrial Operators: Cut 20-50% of Your Compressor Energy Costs
- GM $40M Bedford Investment & Indiana Coal Ash Primacy | TEG Daily September 17, 2026
- Fed Rate Hike Hits Indiana Manufacturers as PJM Capacity Costs Surge | TEG Daily September 16, 2026
- Clean Firm Power Procurement for Commercial and Industrial Facilities: What the Premium Actually Buys
- HEA 1002 Rate Framework Hits Indiana Manufacturers | TEG Daily September 15, 2026
- Demand Response Programs for Commercial and Industrial Facilities: Get Paid for Load Flexibility, If You Know What You're Signing
- PMG Indiana Columbus Plant Closure, Canada Tariffs, and Elkhart RV Contraction: TEG Daily September 14, 2026
- Behind-the-Meter Load Curtailment Clauses in Large-Load Interconnection Agreements: Should You Trade Curtailment for Speed-to-Power?
- AES Indiana Rate Case Returns September 17, Aluminum Tariff Jobs at Risk and THOR Industries Restructures: TEG Daily September 11, 2026
- Contracted Load vs. Actual Load: Overbuild Risk in Interconnection Service Agreements Explained for C&I Operators
- Waste Heat Rejection and Cooling Water Sourcing for High-Density C&I Sites: The Design Decision You Can't Undo
- Steel Dynamics $534M Quarter, Indiana Grid High-Risk Warning, Crane Nuclear Reactor, and AES Rate Rehearing: TEG Daily September 10, 2026
- Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) for Industrial Facilities: Stop Misspecifying and Start Protecting Critical Loads
- PMG Indiana Columbus Closure: 150 Jobs Gone by Dec. 31, Plus GovParts and MelKay Risk for Indiana Plant Leaders
- C-PACE Financing for Commercial Properties: The Senior Lien Problem and When It Pencils Out
- Utility Rate Case Intervention for Commercial & Industrial Operators: What It Costs, What It Delivers, and When to Act
- Canada Tariffs, Rolls-Royce, and Burns Harbor: What Indiana Manufacturers Need to Act On This Week
- Canada Tariffs Hit Indiana Auto and Ag Suppliers September 8, Plus U.S. Steel Gary Works, PMG Columbus, and Eli Lilly LEAP: Indiana Manufacturing News for September 7, 2026
- Grid Reliability Indices (SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI, MAIFI) Explained for Commercial & Industrial Operators: The Outage Numbers Your Utility Isn't Showing You
- Section 48E and 45X Transferable Tax Credits: How Commercial & Industrial Operators Turn Federal Energy Credits Into Cash
- SK hynix $4B West Lafayette Groundbreaking, AES Indiana Rate Rehearing, and Elkhart RV Tariffs: Indiana Manufacturing News for September 3, 2026
- Co-location of Load with Generation: Behind-the-Meter vs. Front-of-Meter for Large C&I Operators, The Middle Ground Is Gone
- Waste Heat Recovery for Industrial Facilities: ORC vs. Heat Exchanger Decision Framework for Plant Managers
- Rolls-Royce $1B Indianapolis Finish Line: What Marion County Suppliers and Indiana Manufacturers Need to Track Now
- SK Hynix Groundbreaking and Canada's 50% Metal Tariffs: Indiana Manufacturing News for September 1, 2026
- Utility Cost Allocation for Data Centers: How Indiana Manufacturers Avoid Paying for Grid Buildout They Didn't Cause
- Rolls-Royce Completes $1B Indiana Defense Build | Indiana Manufacturing News August 31, 2026
- EV Fleet Integration and V2G for Fleet Operators: Turn Parked Vehicles Into Revenue Assets
- Caterpillar's $890M Lafayette Retooling, I&M's Rate Filing, and SK Hynix: Three Indiana Stories With Structural Risks Under the Headlines
- HVAC Setpoint Optimization and Scheduling for Facility Managers: Cut HVAC Costs Without Capital Spend
- $4 Billion in a Single Day: What Indiana Manufacturers Need to Know About the SK Hynix, Samsung SDI, and RayzeBio Announcements
- NIPSCO Tracker Investigation and Honda Greensburg Capacity: Indiana Manufacturing News for August 26, 2026
- NIPSCO Investigation & Nucor $59M Indiana Expansion | TEG Daily August 25, 2026
- C&I Backup Power Strategy: Diesel, Natural Gas, or Battery, Which Architecture Fits Your Facility
- NIPSCO's 12-Day Gary Blackout, the IURC Contradiction Behind It, and What Indiana Manufacturers Must Model Before September 8
- AES Indiana Rate Freeze Risk & Indiana Labor Pressure | TEG Daily August 21, 2026
- AI-Driven Energy Management and Predictive Analytics for Manufacturers: What It Actually Does and What It Actually Costs
- NIPSCO Outage 75,000 Still Dark: What Indiana Manufacturers Need to Know, August 20, 2026
- Small Modular Reactors and Microreactors for Commercial & Industrial Power: What Operators Need to Diligence Before Signing Anything
- AES Indiana Rate Case Freeze, Nucor's DeKalb County Expansion, and Stellantis Belvidere Pushed to 2028: Indiana Manufacturing News for August 19, 2026
- Nucor $59M Steel Plant, IURC Crisis, and Samsung SDI: Indiana Manufacturing News for August 18, 2026
- C&I Microgrids for Industrial Facilities: Reliability, Cost Control, and What the Business Case Actually Requires
- Indiana Flooding, Burns Harbor Fatality, and the NIPSCO Outage Failure: What Indiana Manufacturers Need to Act On Now
- Amazon Diesel Spill, AES Indiana Rate Freeze, and Samsung SDI: Indiana Manufacturing News for August 14, 2026
- Samsung SDI New Carlisle Battery Plant Pivot: What Indiana Manufacturers Need to Know Now
- SK hynix Breaks Ground in 15 Days, NIPSCO Derecho Hits 300,000 Customers, and the AES Indiana Lawsuit Could Lock Your Rate Through 2030
- AES Indiana Rate Deadline September 5: What Indiana Manufacturers Need to Model Before the IURC Vote
- Combined Heat and Power for Industrial Facilities: When CHP Pays, and When It Becomes a Stranded Asset
- Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) for Commercial and Industrial Facilities: Turn Your On-Site Assets Into a Revenue Stream
- Indiana Grid Debate, Ryobi Fatality, and July Jobs Miss: TEG Daily August 10, 2026
- Federal Energy Tax Credits (ITC, PTC, and 179D) Explained for Indiana C&I Operators
- Toyota Columbus Factory, Lilly's $21B Commitment, and a Coal Court Fight That's Already Raising Indiana Manufacturing Electricity Costs
- How Demand Charges Are Calculated: The 15-Minute Interval That Sets Your Commercial & Industrial Bill
- Indiana Apprenticeship Pipeline Hits National Milestone, Plus a New CSX Rail Lane to Indianapolis and a Polysilicon Tariff That Affects More Than Solar
- Indiana Tariff Refund Deadline, Rockport Coal Fight, and Patrick-LCI Merger: TEG Daily August 5, 2026
- IURC Loses a Second Commissioner as the AES Indiana Utility Rate Case Heads to Rehearing
- GenCo Appeal Puts the NIPSCO Rate Increase Path Back in Front of Indiana Manufacturers
- Indiana Manufacturing Tariff Job Losses Hit 9,100 as Grid and Workforce Pressures Build
- CS PowerTech Opens $1B Jeffersonville Plant as Braun Orders Indiana Coal Plant Review
- OT Cybersecurity for Commercial & Industrial Facilities: Why Your Control Systems Are Exposed and How to Reduce It
- Indiana Data Center Power Risk: Sullivan County Construction Cut the Tornado Sirens
- Battery Energy Storage System Payback: How Commercial & Industrial Operators Should Evaluate a BESS Proposal
- Braun's Coal Orders Add $195,000 a Day to Indiana Industrial Electricity Costs
- CS PowerTech Opens $1B Jeffersonville Solar Cell Plant: Indiana Manufacturing News for July 27, 2026
- Indiana Electric Rate Increases: The $83 Bill Surge, a Fourth IURC Appointee, and $9.1M in Apprenticeship Grants
- The Indiana Gas Plant Buildout Just Added 1,520 MW at Rockport, Here's Your Cost Exposure Through 2030
- IURC Utility Rate Investigation, August 6 Fuel Tax Cliff, and Honda's Greensburg Hybrid Ramp
- Postle Aluminum Expands in LaGrange County While a $6.3B PJM Cost Hit Raises Indiana Manufacturing Electricity Costs
- IURC Opens Investigation Into Indiana Utility Tracker Charges, What It Means for Your Power Bill
- BP Whiting Lockout Enters Month 4 as Indiana Ozone Nonattainment Sanctions Raise Expansion Costs
- Indiana Manufacturing Investment Lands: Evonik's $100M in Lafayette, a Pentagon Rare Earth Deal in Marion, and the AES Rate Clock
- Gary Works EPA Lawsuit, Bloomington Water Rates Up 48%, and the Reshoring Test Indiana Suppliers Need to Run
- Indiana Utility Rate Changes 2026: Five Developments Hitting Manufacturer Cost Exposure Now
- Evonik's $100M Lafayette Investment Lands Before Section 232 Pharmaceutical Tariffs Hit July 31
- AES Indiana Rehearing Filed: Four Developments Hitting Indiana Manufacturer Costs Now
- NIPSCO Schahfer Running $174,000 Per Day, and a New IURC Swing Vote Is Coming for Indiana Manufacturers
- Cleveland-Cliffs Idles Riverdale Mill: Indiana Steel Sourcing Risk Is Live Now
- Slate Auto's Battery Pivot, Lilly's FDA PreCheck Win, and Indiana Supplier Risk in 2028
- ThyssenKrupp Closes Terre Haute Steering Plant as Indiana Manufacturing Splits Between Legacy and Technology-Forward Facilities
- IURC Chairman Removed Days After $71M AES Indiana Rate Hike
- Eli Lilly's $21B Lebanon Buildout, Gary Works' Hidden Risk, and Two New Workforce Laws Indiana Manufacturers Need to Know About
- Variable Frequency Drives: When VFDs Save Real Money for Indiana Manufacturers (and When They Don't)
- AES Indiana Rate Increase July 2026: The Double Hit Indiana Manufacturers Need to Model Now
- Indiana Utility Rate Cases 2026: IURC Chairman Replaced, Duke's $89M Appeal, and the Schahfer Deadline
- California SB 54 Puts Indiana Manufacturers on the Clock, Plus Coal Costs and Data Center Grid Pressure
- AES Indiana Rate Case Closes, IURC Leadership Changes, and Burns Harbor Expansion
- LED Lighting Retrofit for Commercial and Industrial Facilities: Retrofit Path, Controls, and Real ROI
- AES Indiana Rate Increase 2026: Five Developments Indiana Manufacturers Can't Ignore
- Purdue Research Park Targeted as U.S. Semiconductor Corridor, GM Fort Wayne Absorbs 50,000 More Trucks
- Duke Energy Indiana $89M Overcharge Appeal, SK Hynix Talent Pressure, and Toyota Supplier Risk
- AES Indiana Rate Increase, USMCA Deadline, and Boston Scientific: Indiana Manufacturers Face Three Deadlines in 35 Days
- Chore-Time Breaks Ground in Kosciusko County as Electricity Capacity Charges Climb for Indiana Manufacturers
- NIPSCO-Hallador Capacity Deal Could Reset Indiana Electricity Rates, and Three More Deadlines This Month
- Demand Charge Peak Shaving: How Indiana C&I Operators Cut Their Highest Bills
- Boston Scientific Plainfield, Domestic Rare Earth Magnets, and Indiana's Tightening Supply Chain Window
- Indiana Steel at $1,201/mt: What the Section 232 Tariff Expansion Costs Indiana Manufacturers This Week
- Load Shifting from Peak to Off-Peak: What Indiana C&I Operators Actually Need to Know
- Boston Scientific's $138M Plainfield Build: What Indiana Device Suppliers and Manufacturers Need to Know
- NIPSCO Schahfer Units Offline: FERC Docket EL2636 Could Push Coal Retention Costs to Indiana C&I Ratepayers
- UAW Strike Puts GM Fort Wayne on an Inventory Clock, Three Indiana Manufacturing Risks With Short Decision Windows
- NIPSCO TDSIC Cost Recovery Lands at the Indiana Supreme Court, And Two More Moves Indiana Manufacturers Should Be Tracking Now
- Indiana Manufacturing News: Coca-Cola Glass Bottling in Indy, a Broken CTE Funding Loop, and What GM's Kokomo Pause Actually Costs
- Utility Bill Audits: What Indiana C&I Operators Need to Know About Finding and Recovering Overcharges
- Three Pressures Hitting Indiana Manufacturers: AES Indiana's Rate Increase, ThyssenKrupp Terre Haute, and Michigan's EV Play
- ITC Quartz Tariff Ruling and Canadian Solar's 45X Question Put Indiana Supply Chains on the Clock
- Rexel USA Is Acquiring Revere Electric Supply, What Northwest Indiana Manufacturers Need to Do Before the Close
- Eli Lilly Hits $21B in Indiana, Hanjung America Breaks Ground in Huntington, and Fort Wayne's Labor Market Sends a Warning
- FERC Order 2222 and DER Aggregation: When Your On-Site Assets Can Earn Wholesale Market Revenue
- Eli Lilly's $21B Indiana Commitment Reaches Lebanon: What the 2027 API Opening Means for Central Indiana Manufacturers
- Utility Standby Charges for On-Site Generation: What Indiana C&I Operators Need to Know Before They Sign
- Fixed vs. Variable Electric Rates: How Indiana C&I Operators Find the Right Structure for Their Facility
- Indiana's Energy Mix Is Shifting to Gas and Solar, What That Means for Your Facility's Power Costs
- Steel Tariffs Hit 50%, Duke and NIPSCO Rates Keep Climbing: What Indiana Manufacturers Face Right Now
- AES Indiana Locks Google Into $1.3B Infrastructure Deal, What Indiana Manufacturers Need to Watch
- Fuel Adjustment Charges: What Indiana C&I Operators Need to Know About This Line Item on Your Electric Bill
- Warsaw EV Plant, Record PJM Capacity Prices, and the Schaeffer Coal Fight: Indiana Electricity Costs in 2026 Are Not a Background Line Item Anymore
- Hanjung America, Bloomfield Defense Hub, and WIA Training Dollars: Three Events Hitting Indiana Manufacturing Labor Costs Before 2027
- NiSource Signs Alphabet Energy Deal, Indiana Manufacturers in NIPSCO Territory Need to Watch the Rate Cases
- Indiana Electricity Supply Constraints Are Now a Governor-Level Problem
- Power Factor Penalties: What Indiana C&I Operators Need to Know About Power Factor Correction
- Indiana Moves Toward Nuclear Base Load as Life Sciences Expansion Tightens Central Indiana's Labor Market
- Demand Ratchets Explained: What Indiana Commercial and Industrial Operators Need to Know
- Second-Life Battery Storage and Biocarbon Fuel: Two Industrial Moves Indiana Manufacturers Need to Evaluate
- Time of Use Demand Rates: When TOU Helps (and Hurts) Indiana Commercial & Industrial Facilities
- IURC NIPSCO Affordability Investigation Goes Formal: What Indiana Manufacturers Must Watch
- Novo Nordisk Cuts 400 Bloomington Jobs, BP Whiting Lockout Enters Month Two, and Guardian Bikes Bets on Indiana
- Renewable Restrictions, HEA 1002, and Whirlpool: What's Reshaping Indiana Manufacturing Energy Costs Right Now
- $100B Energy-as-a-Service Market and Indiana's HEA 1002 Put Long-Term Power Costs on the Line for Indiana Manufacturers
- OIA Global Acquires Indianapolis Freight Forwarder as Sheetz Plans $1B Indiana Expansion
- Ball State's $204M Warning and the DC Blox Data Center: Indiana Manufacturing Power Costs Under Pressure
- Demand Charges for Commercial and Industrial Facilities: What They Are, Why They Jump, and How to Control Them
- Indiana Manufacturers Association Policy 2026: Three Moves That Affect Your Operation
- Polyram's $12M Evansville Plant and Toyota's EV Push: What Indiana Manufacturers Need to Do Now
- Metal Tariffs Hit Indiana Manufacturers at 50%, FCC Indiana Sounds Supply Chain Alarm, Fort Wayne Grid Costs Coming
- Evansville Plastics Expansion, Green Steel Talks, and IU Microelectronics: Indiana Manufacturing News
- Toyota's $1B Investment, Indiana Utility Rates Under Pressure, and a $65B Industrial Park: What Manufacturers Need to Watch Now
- Three Shifts Hitting Indiana Manufacturers at Once: Labor, Capital, and Power
- Ports of Indiana Aluminum Expansion, Water Politics, and 50 Years of Indiana Automation: What Manufacturers Need to Know