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CHESSA Energize Summit 2026 | AI, Energy Storage & the Future of Clean Energy
Highlights from the CHESSA Energize Summit in Charlottesville, Virginia: large-load growth, energy storage, battery development, and responsible AI. SkyTerra Group joined the panel “Using AI Responsibly in Clean Energy” and shared how AI can analyze CAD drawings for compliance.
Energy-Independent Airports: The Future of Aviation & Energy | SkyTerra Webinar Recap
What does the future of an energy-independent airport look like? Our webinar with Ryan Wilkoff covers battery-electric aircraft, EV charging, airport power demand, grid constraints, and the opportunity for airports to generate and store more of their own energy.
Red Thread X × SkyTerra: Meet the Zillions Assistant
Together with Red Thread X, SkyTerra Group built the Zillions Assistant, turning the Zillions knowledge base into an interactive AI-powered experience. Ask questions, explore connections, trace insights back to their sources, and discover more from the research.
What if the biggest challenge facing AI isn't AI itself... but power? ⚡
Peter Belmonte shares why electricity, grid capacity, and energy infrastructure will determine how fast AI can grow. Watch this short to learn why Speed to Power is becoming one of the most important conversations in AI and energy.
In this SkyTerra webinar, Peter Belmonte explains why the real constraint isn't GPUs or semiconductors. It is our ability to generate, transmit, and deliver electricity. The future of AI depends just as much on energy infrastructure as it does on advances in computing.
SkyTerra's Engagement App brings AI meeting notes, automated task management, presentations, payments, document management, and a curated professional network into one workspace designed to move teams from conversation to execution faster.
Why the Future of AI Depends on Energy Infrastructure
The next generation of AI campuses will consume significantly more electricity than traditional facilities, creating new opportunities and new challenges for utilities, developers, and infrastructure leaders. The future of AI depends on the energy infrastructure to support what is next.
AI isn't replacing people, it's transforming how we solve problems. #artificialintelligence #ai
One of the biggest misconceptions about AI is that it automatically learns from every interaction. AI is only as valuable as the knowledge, data, and human expertise behind it. People asking better questions, sharing insights, and solving real-world problems drive innovation.
What if your biggest competitive advantage is already in your conversation and you’re not using it?
The Engagement App captures and organizes day-to-day communication, including calls, documents, and emails, then turns it into structured and actionable intelligence using LLMs. It helps teams generate slide decks, map stakeholders, surface key asks, and turn conversations into usable outputs.
Your Company's AI, Built For You - Robert Toth, Theta Tech AI | SkyTerra Webinar Recap
In our latest SkyTerra webinar, Robert Toth, Ph.D. (Founder, Theta Tech AI) breaks down how to turn scattered, individual AI use into secure, shared, company-wide infrastructure that actually understands your business. Key points: • Shared AI doesn't get smarter over time - it...
The SkyTerra Engagement Agent transforms transcripts, documents, emails and meetings into AI-powered intelligence: every source in one place, AI chat with cited answers, voice-driven prompts, branded executive decks, and auto-generated stakeholder maps and Gantt timelines.
We connect experts, operators, and real projects across energy, AI, and infrastructure. So ideas don’t just stay ideas, they get executed. Simple as that.
SkyTerra Group Overview | How Top Experts Deliver Real Projects in Energy & AI
SkyTerra is a curated Project Delivery Network for energy, AI, and critical infrastructure. Think Yelp meets McKinsey for project delivery, trusted discovery, real matching, and real execution. In under three minutes, we break down: 🤝 Who joins Experts, consultants, operators...
Unlock the power of your project data with the SkyTerra Engagement Agent. This demo walks through how the Engagement Agent turns scattered project information into something you can actually use: organized, searchable, and powered by AI. Instead of digging through notes or...
🏝️ We recently flew to a Bahamian island... not for vacation, but to engineer a cleaner, quieter power system using microgrids for a remote resort. We are the engineers supporting rising demand while cutting generator runtime. Remote islands are often highly dependent on diesel...
🔎 Here's a closer look at SkyTerra's new AI business card reader app. If you have ever come back from a conference with a stack of cards, this app makes follow-up simple. Upload a photo of your business cards, review the extracted details, and export a clean spreadsheet that...
Here’s How We Use Notion for B2B Project Management
Get full visibility into your project’s progress without spreadsheets or extra tools. At SkyTerra Group, we use Notion to build interactive dashboards that clients can access in real time. These dashboards include timelines, task tracking, meeting notes, action items, and...
Energy-Independent Airports - SkyTerra Monthly Webinar with Ryan Wilkoff
Ryan Wilkoff, founder and CEO of Forever Flight Worldwide, on electrifying regional and municipal airports: start on the ground where the airport's own load already lives, bring private capital so nobody waits on a grant, size storage before the fleet arrives, and treat flat airport land as a place to build power for a constrained grid. Aircraft packs sit near 200 Wh/kg today against a 300 to 500 Wh/kg target, which is why the near-term path is hybrid.
CHESSA Energize Summit 2026 - Chesapeake Solar and Storage Association
Two days in Charlottesville on one question: how much of the forecast data-center load is real, and who pays if it never arrives. Inside: Maryland's 2.1 GW paper pipeline against what utilities actually report, speculative load a $250,000 deposit can park in the queue for a decade, affordability politics after the EmPOWER cut, storage as the fastest asset the grid can add, and county consent as the permitting queue that now decides projects. Features SkyTerra's Jonathan Scharf, PhD on the Using AI Responsibly in Clean Energy panel.
Speed to Power: Building Energy Infrastructure – Peter Belmonte
As AI and data center demand continue to accelerate, the need for reliable and scalable power infrastructure has never been greater. Join Pete Belmonte, Founder of Stallion Energy & Environmental, as he shares practical insights from more than 34 years in power generation, covering permitting, interconnection, energy storage, and project execution. Learn the strategies developers are using to deliver energy infrastructure faster and navigate today's rapidly evolving power landscape.
Data Centers Dissected - TBDA from The Austin Forum (Jimmy Pike, TASK Consultancy & Michael Schulte, AMD)
Field report from The Austin Forum's "Data Centers Dissected" panel at ACC Rio Grande, moderated by Dr. Jay Boisseau. The brief right-sizes the AI data-center panic: the national footprint is modest (~1.5% of global electricity today, rising toward ~3% by 2030) while the real strain lands locally on specific watersheds and grids. Covers exploding rack density (toward ~1 MW per rack by 2030), why cooling and the grid - not the chip - are the binding constraints, full-stack efficiency gains of 100–1000x, and the upside case of exascale science (AlphaFold, fusion, and carbon-negative supercomputing). The closing thesis: the goal is not less computing, it is more useful computing.
Your Company's AI, Built For You - Webinar with Robert Toth, PhD (Theta Tech AI)
Webinar recap and briefing from SkyTerra's June session with Robert Toth, PhD of Theta Tech AI. Covers the shift from scattered shadow AI to secure, shared, company-wide infrastructure that learns from every interaction, plus RAG and knowledge graphs, the token economy, MCP as the connective standard (past 10,000 public servers and 97M monthly downloads), and company-specific workflows that keep a human in the loop.
R-Zinc 4.0: Collaborate and Accelerate - Hosted by EverZinc
Industry intelligence brief from R-Zinc 4.0 in Nashville, hosted by EverZinc. Coverage includes the working tour of EverZinc's zinc oxide plant in Tennessee, the Zinc Battery Use Cases and Commercialization panel featuring Urban Electric Power, Octet Scientific, Camelot Energy Group, and ZincFive, and a keynote from Dr. Josef Daniel Ivad (International Zinc Association / Zinc Battery Initiative) on scaling zinc battery manufacturing by 100x.
MRS Spring 2026 MT Symposia - The AI-for-Materials Track
Industry intelligence brief from the Materials Theory symposia at the 2026 MRS Spring Meeting in Honolulu. Foundation Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials crossed from research demo to deployable infrastructure, agentic self-driving labs moved into production, and synthesizability emerged as the new rate-limiting step. Features SES AI's Molecular Universe spotlight (CATL, BYD, national labs), NVIDIA's Alchemy compute stack, Meta FAIR's unified models, and the open frontier in battery interphase modeling.
Powering Texas's Future: The Grid Challenge of a Generation
Insights from the Austin Innovation Hub Energy & Grid Panel with Centerpoint Energy, SmartWires, and Distributed Grid on Texas's 50–60 GW expansion challenge, Houston load growth, and the next decade of grid modernization.
Mike Bechtel Keynote - SXSW 2026 (Red Thread X House)
Insights from Deloitte's former Chief Futurist on AI, blockchain, quantum computing, and his "Simpler, Smarter, Stronger" framework - plus an exclusive Penguin Random House book announcement at The Line Austin Hotel.
Austin Science Network SXSW Panel - Hard Tech, Data Centers & Power Systems
SXSW panel discussion with Jonathan Scharf PhD (SkyTerra Group), Alex Foster (Arxell), and Daniel Wang Esq. (Eversheds Sutherland) on the convergence of hard tech, hyperscale data centers, and next-generation power systems.
A comprehensive analysis of Texas energy policy at a pivotal moment, examining ERCOT governance, legislative priorities, and the future of the state's energy market.
Comprehensive analysis of battery technology trends, market developments, and strategic insights from the National Alliance for Advanced Technology Batteries annual meeting in Tucson, Arizona.
Clean TX Grid NEXT ATX 2025 - Transforming the Texas Grid
Strategic insights and policy recommendations for modernizing Texas's electric grid infrastructure to support clean energy transition and grid resilience.
At SkyTerra Group, we’re focused on helping organizations move complex projects forward by bringing together the right expertise, technology, and partnerships.
SkyTerra September Webinar: Exploring the Future of Cleaner Aviation with Forever Flight Worldwide
We’re excited to share some big news from SkyTerra Group as we continue bringing together leaders, innovators, and organizations working at the intersection of energy, technology, infrastructure, and emerging solutions.
Reliability Is Becoming the New Frontier in Aerospace Batteries
NASA Battery Workshop | The NASA Battery Workshop highlighted a fundamental shift from maximizing performance to engineering predictable, scalable safety.
Designing Reliable Microgrids: Key Lessons and Best Practices
Microgrids are self-contained energy systems capable of operating independently or in conjunction with the main grid. They are being implemented in a wide range of settings, from remote, off-grid regions to urban facilities such as hospitals, university campuses, industrial sites, commercial...
AI Energy Consumption and Policy Effects on Renewables Integration
The evolution of AI technologies, from machine learning to complex data processing, has led to skyrocketing energy consumption. AI-driven data centers are emerging as massive electricity consumers, often relying on traditional energy sources. This trend presents a challenge to sustainability, as...
Advocacy and Legislative Trends in Texas Energy Policy
The CleanTX Austin Chapter Luncheon, held on March 31, 2025, served as a significant platform to discuss the evolving legislative landscape in Texas's energy sector. Featured discussions centered on key bills and policies, including SB 819, SB 715, and SB 388, each carrying potential implications...
This topic has sparked a lot of controversy, but it's important to focus on the facts. As the PBS NewsHour reporting the post cites puts it: these whales died before a single turbine was built in the supposedly culpable wind farm.
The Future of Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Projects: EMS, AI/ML, and the Role of BESS
The shift toward renewable energy is reshaping the global energy landscape, and utility-scale projects are key to this transformation. Energy Management Systems (EMS), smart grids, and advanced technologies like AI/ML are playing crucial roles in efficiently integrating renewable energy sources...
Navigating the Unpredictability of Mineral Prices in Battery Supply Chain Management
The rapid growth of the electric vehicle (EV) market and renewable energy sectors has created immense pressure on the battery supply chain. Critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel are essential for battery manufacturing, but their prices remain highly volatile, driven by global supply...