Winter peak demand is rising faster than resource additions: NERC

Batteries and demand response make up the bulk of new resources heading into this winter, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said Tuesday. Following capacity changes in some markets, wind resources declined.

By Robert Walton • Nov. 19, 2025

More small utilities participate in NERC’s grid attack simulation

The biennial GridEx security exercise has new, more diverse participants, including those from outside the electric sector, from Canadian utilities and from smaller utilities.

By Robert Walton • Nov. 18, 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

How engineered building solutions support data center technologies to deliver AI workloads

Modular control buildings drive scalable growth for AI-ready data centers.

By Damian Mannino • Nov. 17, 2025

The quiet revolution in energy: How private innovation is reshaping the grid

Multifamily is quietly becoming the grid’s most surprising new source of stability.

Nov. 17, 2025

Northeast grid operators confident facing winter demand as heating electrification rises

The New England Independent System Operator has said it expects electrification to turn the regional grid to a winter-peaking system sometime in the mid-2030s.

By Robert Walton • Nov. 17, 2025

Power outages getting longer as extreme weather takes larger toll, report says

The average length of the longest power outage has increased in all regions since 2022, according to JD Power. 

By Meris Lutz • Nov. 17, 2025

Data center volatility, batteries and the electric grid’s new reality

Every data center is about to play a role in grid stability whether it wants to or not, writes TerraFlow Energy’s Amanda Simonian.

By Amanda Simonian • Nov. 14, 2025

US needs more gas infrastructure, storage to support electric grid: NARUC

A state utility commission task force examining gas-electric sector coordination concluded no changes are necessary to the timing of the markets or to standard contract provisions.

By Robert Walton • Nov. 13, 2025

[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

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