What could save Arizona tens of millions in annual customer and infrastructure costs? Residential pool pumps.

If Arizona Public Service and Salt River Project customers were to schedule pool pump operations at midday instead of at night, it could shift up to 820 MW into off-peak tariffs, ASU researchers said.

By Vladimir Abdelnour and Nathan Johnson • June 12, 2026

Know the hurdles to using generators for demand response participation

Virginia passed a law encouraging utilities to offer big power users the opportunity to participate in load-shedding programs, but for facilities, signing up is not an easy decision.

By Robert Freedman • June 11, 2026

Explore the Trendline➔

Energy Efficiency

With hostilities between the U.S., Israel and Iran driving up global energy prices and a surge in domestic electricity demand from large-load data centers, manufacturing and electrification, efficiency could play a key role in meeting that demand as economically as possible. 

By Utility Dive staff

Sonoma Clean Power aims for 1,000 no-cost smart thermostats amid VPP push

The public utility will use $5 million in state funding and partner with community groups to boost participation among lower-income customers, it said last week.

By Brian Martucci • June 10, 2026

Supreme Court sends furnace case back to appeals court

The top court agreed with the Trump administration that Biden-era rules effectively eliminating non-condensing gas furnaces and water heaters from the market are based on an incomplete legal review.

By Robert Freedman • June 9, 2026

Not-for-profit utilities turn to energy storage as data centers drive cost, reliability concerns

Reliability, power price hedging and avoided infrastructure investment are among the top reasons for the battery push, NRECA said.

By Brian Martucci • June 9, 2026

How load flexibility buys time for America’s data center boom

In markets where supply and demand are out of balance, grid connection increasingly comes with a choice: either bring the needed power yourself, or bring flexibility, write experts at ICF.

By Shanthi Muthiah and Himali Parmar • June 9, 2026

Big, power-ready facilities drive industrial real estate market

Companies are looking for modern facilities that can accommodate power-hungry automation, industrial experts said in a report first provided to Facilities Dive.

By Joe Burns • June 8, 2026

Can stadiums be energy-efficient? USGBC map shows that many of them are

The U.S. Green Building Council has conferred LEED status on 31 stadiums in North America, from the 9,500-seat Southwest University Park in El Paso, Texas, to the 88,000-seat Estadio Banorte in Mexico City.  

By Robert Freedman • June 8, 2026

Rising load growth reshapes cooperative portfolios and strategy

Large loads pose additional challenges for cooperatives. Planning strategically is critical.

By Albert Gabberty, Burns & McDonnell • June 8, 2026

The benefits of a unified billing, payment, communications platform

One platform. Fewer silos. Better billing and payment experiences for utilities and customers.

June 8, 2026

Colorado co-op delivers 100% renewables in March, a first

Holy Cross Energy CEO Bryan Hannegan said the utility plans to expand its programs for smart electrification and demand flexibility, and selectively add new flexible renewable resources.

By Diana DiGangi • June 4, 2026

Customer experience, better modeling can boost demand-side portfolio: report

The Brattle Group’s report lays out a framework for increasing demand-side resources to mitigate the impacts of load growth, variable renewables and distributed electrification.

By Brian Martucci • June 3, 2026

Google to fund 100-MW virtual power plant in PJM in ‘first-of-its-kind’ deal

Google has worked to make its data centers flexible, the company’s global head of data center energy told Utility Dive, but it’s often faster and more cost effective to pay other customers to shift their electricity usage.

By Meris Lutz • June 3, 2026

What’s on the mind of EEI conference attendees? Labor, AI, affordability and more.

Utility Dive talked to registrants before the conference to hear how industry changes are impacting their work.

By Meris Lutz • June 2, 2026

Data centers can raise temperatures, energy burdens in nearby neighborhoods: ASU study

Each one-degree increase in temperature will drive a higher use of air conditioning, which in turn will put more heat into the area, creating “a feedback loop,” researchers concluded.

By Robert Freedman • June 2, 2026

DOE issues guidance ending gas-to-electric appliance rebates

The Department of Energy will instead allow rebates for “upgrading HVAC and appliances only from existing electric equipment to more efficient electric equipment.”

By Diana DiGangi • June 2, 2026

Access to real-time electricity data should be a basic consumer right

The technology exists and the infrastructure is there. What is missing is a requirement that customers have access to data on their electricity use, writes Joel Hicks at the University of Oregon.

By Joel Hicks • June 1, 2026

Philadelphia clean energy campaign turned millions invested into billions saved. Here’s how.

By blending public and private financing, green banking and a coalition of labor, housing and community partners, the city generated 11,000 jobs and $1.4 billion in energy savings — with minimal federal dollars, an economic impact report found.

By Robyn Griggs Lawrence • June 1, 2026

How utilities can add capacity in months, not years

For utilities managing surging electricity demand, a scalable, non-wires approach to expanding grid capacity can be deployed in just a few months.

June 1, 2026

Large-load customers can help commercialize new clean energy technology: CEBA

“In a lot of the partnerships that have been established around some of these technologies, it's really the tech companies that are taking on a lot of the risk,” Priya Barua, CEBA's senior director of utility partnerships and innovation, told Utility Dive.

By Diana DiGangi • May 29, 2026

Virginia senator suggests SCC judge recuse herself from NextEra-Dominion merger

The state senator also objects to the merger itself, calling it “extremely concerning” in an environment of “rising utility bills and unprecedented grid expansion costs driven largely by hyperscale data center growth.”

By Diana DiGangi • May 28, 2026

Demand management, data center flexibility boost regional reliability: NERC

The reliability watchdog dropped its forecast for ERCOT’s net internal demand by 3.7 GW, or 4.6%, compared with last summer, “because more data centers can be curtailed by grid operators when needed to prevent grid emergencies.”

By Brian Martucci • May 27, 2026

Puerto Rico’s power grid is ‘suspended between two realities,’ top utility regulator says

Affordability, reliability and the need to restore public confidence almost a decade after Hurricane Maria are top concerns, writes PREB Chairman Edison Avilés.

By Edison Avilés • May 22, 2026

FERC Commissioner Chang is ‘not thinking about’ breaking up PJM

“I'm interested in the successful continued operation of PJM, but definitely I want to help them get through this period,” FERC Commissioner Judy Chang told Utility Dive. She called the proposed NextEra-Dominion merger “interesting.”

By Diana DiGangi • May 21, 2026

Financing for California’s signature virtual power plant remains uncertain

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed funding the Demand Side Grid Support program through this year before moving participants to a separate, utility-run framework. Clean energy groups call the proposal costly and counterproductive.

By Brian Martucci • May 20, 2026