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People are critical infrastructure, too. Utilities must do more or lose talent to tech.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (467+ words) With so much riding on America’s AI ambitions, utility workforce strategy must have a place alongside generation, transmission and capital planning, says Stefan Hirniak of Specialist Staffing Group. Stefan Hirniak is president of Specialist Staffing Group US. The U.S. economy…...
Why winning the AI race requires systems intelligence, not just electric capacity
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (582+ words) The future won’t belong to the nations with the most generating capacity, but to those with the best grid coordination, writes Evan Caron, co-founder of Montauk Capital. Evan Caron is co-founder and chief investment officer at Montauk Capital. OpenAI’s letter…...
Security beyond CIP: When ‘low impact’ doesn’t mean low risk
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (1073+ words) Today’s power grid was built to handle an outage at a major facility. But there is a growing risk from many smaller resources failing at once, writes Anirban Ghosh at B&V. Anirban “Sunny” Ghosh is NERC CIP lead, global industrial…...
Hidden assets: Why data centers don’t have to be the villain
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (600+ words) Conventional wisdom treats data centers as inflexible monsters. That characterization made sense a decade ago, but not now, writes GridX CCO Scott Engstrom. Scott Engstrom is chief customer officer for GridX. Somewhere in your service territory, a data center developer…...
Duke Energy five-year capital plan could exceed $100B
10+ mon, 2+ day ago (423+ words) The company could add more than 13 GW of new capacity to its system over the next five years, CEO Harry Sideris said. Duke Energy will unveil the details of an expanded five-year capital plan spanning $95 billion to $105 billion early next…...
The grid’s fastest-growing resource isn’t generation. It’s flexibility.
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (955+ words) The technology is there. The institutions are not. FERC’s July 23 technical conference on the PJM Interconnection’s governance is where that gap gets addressed — or doesn’t, writes Jeanine Johnson. Jeanine Johnson is a former member of the board of the PJM…...
Data centers remain standout industry for Schneider Electric
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (79+ words) Data center orders accelerated toward the end of 2025 and will likely remain strong through 2026 as projects planned for the next 18 to 24 months take shape, Schneider Electric Chief Financial Officer Hilary Maxson said....
Hyperscalers didn’t set out to be power companies. The grid left them no choice.
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1093+ words) The power gap left AI hyperscalers with no alternative but to take on utility-scale obligations and lock up gigawatts of generation, writes Peak Nano CMO Shaun Walsh. Shaun Walsh is chief marketing officer at Peak Nano, an advanced materials manufacturer....
Data centers can vanish from the grid in seconds; reliability rules need to catch up
2+ week, 4+ day ago (399+ words) The loss of more than 3 GW of data center demand in Virginia shows why policy must address operational behavior, not just costs, writes AIxEnergy.io founder Brandon Owens. Brandon Owens is the founder of AIxEnergy.io, a platform providing data…...
We don’t need more proof that flexibility works. We need more people using it.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (346+ words) The flexibility industry has a proof problem. It's just not the one everyone keeps talking about. For the better part of a decade, demand flexibility has had to fight for legitimacy. Does shifting load actually work? Will customers participate? Can…...