Utilities, regulators look to accelerate pilots to achieve speed-to-innovation

Stakeholders say clear cost limits, timelines and parameters for scaling can overcome the inertia of a traditionally risk-averse industry.

By Herman K. Trabish • Dec. 1, 2025

Enabling integrated system planning with GE Vernova’s PlanOS

Utility planners face a challenging task as demand increases, climate changes and equipment ages.

Dec. 1, 2025

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Power demand is rising amid dramatic shifts in federal energy policy, but technology and markets continue to push the grid toward cleaner, more distributed resources. 

By Utility Dive staff

When 10-year grid plans compress into 3: Meeting the AI power surge

How utilities can meet AI-driven load growth with faster planning and flexible grid solutions.

By Nate Walkingshaw, CEO and Co-Founder, Torus • Dec. 1, 2025

Rethinking reliability: Why IBRs need independent verification

Interconnecting IBRs without verification is a risk to grid stability — here’s the solution.

By Jonathan Susser • Dec. 1, 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 • Updated Dec. 1, 2025

No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor

The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.

By Ethan Howland • Nov. 26, 2025

Utility operating systems at the grid edge pose an overlooked risk

While utilities focus on network security and access control, underlying operating systems remain a vulnerable foundation, writes Andrew Rynhard, chief technology officer for Sidero Labs.

By Andrew Rynhard • Nov. 21, 2025

The week in 5 numbers: Power outages stretch, data center load overstated

Winter peak demand is rising faster than resource additions, and a bribery scandal ends with a massive payout.

By Meris Lutz • Nov. 21, 2025

PJM stakeholders fail to agree on data center interconnection rules

The PJM Interconnection’s board may develop a proposal for new rules to interconnect large loads to the grid, but the timing is unclear.

By Ethan Howland • Nov. 20, 2025

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

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

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