Brett Duguay
Brett Duguay is the founder and editor of Photo Volt Media. His reporting is grounded in direct working experience across electrical contracting, utility-scale and C&I solar, battery energy storage, electrification, interconnection, EPC operations, and grid modernization projects.
He launched Photo Volt Media to document how the modern energy system is financed, engineered, interconnected, and built — written for the developers, utilities, contractors, engineers, investors, and policymakers shaping it.
His current reporting focuses on AI-driven load growth, the interconnection queue, transmission constraints, utility capital programs, and the rise of grid-scale storage as core infrastructure.
Explain how the modern energy system is built.
Photo Volt Media exists to explain how the modern energy system is financed, engineered, interconnected, and built.
Our coverage focuses on physical infrastructure, market dynamics, utility investment, and the long-term transformation of the electric grid.
Infrastructure, economics, engineering, policy.
Photo Volt Media covers the infrastructure, economics, engineering, and policy behind the modern energy system. Current reporting areas include:
Featured reporting
The Great Grid Buildout
Massachusetts Is Quietly Building a Software-Defined Energy Grid
Reshoring, Demand Growth, and Energy Abundance
HVDC Corridors and the Stranded-Renewables Problem
The Electrification Era Is Just Beginning
Battery Storage Is Becoming Grid Infrastructure
Inside the Interconnection Queue Crisis
The Earth Receives 173,000 Terawatts of Solar Energy
Documenting the buildout where it happens.
Photo Volt Media documents the energy transition where it is actually happening — at substations, solar sites, battery projects, transmission corridors, utility facilities, and active construction sites.
Our reporting combines industry research with firsthand observations from the field.
Reporting first.
Photo Volt Media is independently operated. Coverage is informed by direct industry experience, not sponsorships or client relationships. Editorial standards, sourcing, and corrections are documented in our editorial standards.
- NowFounder & Editor, Photo Volt Media
- 2020–Energy storage & utility-scale solar project work
- 2015–Electrical contracting — commercial & industrial
- OngoingCoverage of substation, transmission, and EPC operations