[Podcast] How Utilities Are Planning for Demand

This podcast explores how utilities are meeting rising power demand with smart planning and strategies for the grid of tomorrow.

By Utility Dive's studioID • Nov. 13, 2025

Data centers can stack sustainability, energy innovations

Data center developers should seize opportunities to benefit communities and the environment, write a former Ohio member of Congress and a sixth-generation farmer.

By Tim Ryan and Shawn Cutter • Nov. 12, 2025

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AI in the Power Sector

Artificial intelligence is uniquely positioned to impact the electricity industry from both ends: as the technology driving large load demand growth and as a tool with the potential to make the power system more efficient. 

By Utility Dive staff

AI-based malware makes attacks stealthier and more adaptive

Google says it has discovered at least five malware families that use AI to reinvent themselves and hide from defenders.

By Eric Geller • Nov. 12, 2025

Why conductor strength matters for grid reliability

Why conductor strength plays a critical role in the long-term reliability of the power grid.

Nov. 10, 2025

Making flexibility work: A concrete framework for the DOE large load proposal

The proposal for interconnecting data centers to the grid calls for load flexibility but gives few details. Former FERC Commissioner Allison Clements and Miles Farmer and Sam Walsh of Roselle LLP fill in the blanks.

By Allison Clements, Miles Farmer and Sam Walsh • Nov. 6, 2025

Why this little-known metric will decide the value of future energy resources

The declining effective load carrying capability of short-duration batteries creates a planning dilemma for utilities, writes Fourth Power CEO Arvin Ganesan.

By Arvin Ganesan • Nov. 5, 2025

Why yesterday’s power grid security won’t work tomorrow

The modern power grid connects everything — and that means every sensor is now a potential entry point, writes Black & Veatch’s Keon McEwen. 

By Keon McEwen • Nov. 4, 2025

The people’s power plant: How Puerto Rico turned home batteries into a reliable grid asset

After Hurricane Maria in 2017, homes became “mini power plants”, generating electricity from rooftop solar and storing it in batteries.

Nov. 3, 2025

Beyond savings: How behavioral energy programs are powering peak demand flexibility

Discover how behavioral energy programs are driving peak-demand flexibility and grid resilience.

Nov. 3, 2025

Southern inks 7 GW of large load contracts, eyes 50 GW more

The company saw sales growth across all customer classes in the third quarter. Data center usage up was up 17% year over year, according to a Thursday earnings presentation.

By Robert Walton • Oct. 31, 2025

Utilities see AI as tool for grid modernization but lack expertise, survey finds

National Grid Partners’ “utility innovation” survey, now in its second year, found 42% of respondents planning artificial intelligence deployments by 2027.

By Brian Martucci • Oct. 28, 2025

Kentucky utility, AG challenge PJM’s regional cost allocation plan for DOE ‘emergency’ orders

Load-serving entities shouldn’t be required to pay for costs they didn’t cause, East Kentucky Power Cooperative and Kentucky’s attorney general told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

By Ethan Howland • Oct. 28, 2025

What utilities need to get right to scale generative AI

To use artificial intelligence safely and at scale, utilities need to start with the right architecture, define a data strategy and build the right compliance foundations, write Vijay Narayan and Syama Sundar Peesapati of Cognizant.

By Vijay Narayan and Syama Sundar Peesapati • Oct. 27, 2025

Why we built GridFAST™

Introducing GridFAST, a central portal to connect businesses and utilities early to help accelerate EV charging projects.

By Britta Gross, Director of Transportation, EPRI • Oct. 27, 2025

6 ways batteries provide a lifeline for customers in an outage

With outages rising 20% annually, batteries provide lifeline for 2.5M Americans.

Oct. 27, 2025

NERC president warns of ‘five-alarm fire’ for grid reliability

“The reliability of the power grid remains extremely high, but, paradoxically, the risks to reliability continue to mount,” the North American Electric Reliability Corp.’s Jim Robb told federal regulators.

By Ethan Howland • Oct. 22, 2025

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s industry partnerships slashed

The latest round of sweeping layoffs could significantly impede CISA’s relationships with critical infrastructure organizations in healthcare, energy, water, finance and other sectors.

By Eric Geller • Oct. 22, 2025

States should think twice before taking steps to exit PJM

If officials believe the PJM Interconnection capacity market is not ensuring resource adequacy, or is doing so at excessive prices, they should turn their efforts to market reforms, writes former FERC Chair Joseph Kelliher.

By Joseph Kelliher • Oct. 22, 2025

Utility identity fraud is a bigger problem than people think

Stolen and synthetic identities are flowing through utility systems not just for free electricity or gas, but to fuel broader schemes that ripple across the financial sector, writes David Maimon, head of fraud insights at SentiLink.

By David Maimon • Oct. 21, 2025

NorthWestern plans ‘large load’ tariff for Montana data centers

Advocates say the utility plans to serve at least three data centers that could scale up to a load of 2,250 MW — nearly twice its current peak. NorthWestern said it is in talks with potential data center customers but has no agreements.

By Ethan Howland • Oct. 21, 2025

As cyber threats grow, utilities say lapsed information-sharing law stymies security

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 has expired, and utilities say the U.S. faces a “more complex and dangerous security environment” as a result.

By Robert Walton • Oct. 20, 2025

For electric utilities to win with AI, focus on the 3 C’s

Electric utilities are deploying AI to combat their biggest threats: cyberattacks, extreme weather and soaring energy demand from data centers.

By Indran Ratnathicam, CGO, Technosylva • Oct. 20, 2025

The best of the BESS: The role of battery energy storage systems in grid reliability

BESS is not just about storing power, but empowering a sustainable, resilient energy future.

By Tom Holleran, PE, Senior Electrical Engineer – POWER Engineers, member of WSP and Saurabh Chatterjee, Vice President Onshore Renewables – WSP in the U.S. • Oct. 20, 2025

The week in 5 numbers: DOE backs transmission, Amazon’s dozen nuclear reactors

Plus a group of solar projects in Nevada face uncertainty and California funds offshore wind.

By Meris Lutz • Oct. 17, 2025

FERC orders MISO to clarify how merchant projects will be included in transmission planning

Also, the agency aims to issue a colocation decision this year while its staffing has plunged 11%, FERC Chairman David Rosner said Thursday at an open meeting.

By Ethan Howland • Oct. 17, 2025