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WebMake it easy to say yes: How utilities are removing barriers to energy-efficient product adoption
20+ hour, 43+ min ago (188+ words) Flex Summit 2026 is open for registration. Register now to lock in your rate and join us October 14-15, 2026 in Austin, TX. Building customer momentum early in the year can help utilities establish a strong foundation for achieving annual product sales and…...
Political pushback to the NextEra-Dominion deal has spread to New England
1+ week, 6+ day ago (536+ words) Flex Summit 2026 is open for registration. Register now to lock in your rate and join us October 14-15, 2026 in Austin, TX. NextEra's 2021 effort to block a Maine transmission line is coming back to bite it. But will it matter? The pushback…...
Can AI revolutionize grid operations?
2+ week, 6+ day ago (683+ words) Flex Summit 2026 is open for registration. Register now to lock in your rate and join us October 14-15, 2026 in Austin, TX. ThinkLabs AI CEO Josh Wong on the real pressure points for the grid — and how AI can help. Everyone loves…...
Grid utilization: Useful policy tool or a distraction?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (842+ words) Flex Summit 2026 is open for registration. Early bird pricing ends July 31! Register now to lock in your rate and join us October 14-15, 2026 in Austin, TX. As Virginia rolls out its first-in-the-nation law, analysts debate whether measuring spare capacity will actually…...
How Gridware’s grid monitoring sensors won over a career lineman
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (650+ words) Flex Summit 2026 is now open for registration. Register now for early bird pricing! Join us October 14-15, 2026 in Austin, TX. The technology monitors vibrations and the electrical field around utility poles, to detect faults and prevent wildfires. The first time Tim…...
Utilities request $18.6 billion in rate hikes so far this year
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (443+ words) Flex Summit 2026 is now open for registration. Register now for early bird pricing! Join us October 14-15, 2026 in Austin, TX. The total is in addition to the record-breaking $31 billion utilities requested in 2025, a new PowerLines report shows. Utilities requested $18.6 billion in…...
The Southeast is missing out on cheaper power from PJM and MISO
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (839+ words) The Department of Energy estimates the region needs to build transmission lines connecting it to neighboring markets. The Southeast’s relatively low energy costs and available land have made it an emerging data center hotspot. But the region could reduce electricity…...
FERC to grid operators: Connect large loads to transmission faster
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (513+ words) In a unanimous vote, the commissioners agreed that current regulations are lagging behind the data center surge, but declined to exert federal power over RTOs. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission acted today on the advanced notice of proposed rulemaking that…...
The grid's choice is between large load flexibility versus defection
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (447+ words) FERC's long-awaited large load interconnection orders are here — but questions remain on how to best encourage flexibility. The most important near-term question in the wake of FERC’s large load rulemaking is not jurisdictional; it is how utilities, RTOs, and regulators…...
The biggest utility merger in US history?
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (1935+ words) NextEra wants to buy Dominion; and a new debate is brewing over whether we’re entering the era of distributed AI computing. First, it was a power bottleneck. Then a compute bottleneck. Now, as AI agents burn through tokens faster than…...