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Why the U.S. Does Not Need New Gas to Meet Rising Demand

Everyone working in the energy sector is asking themselves the same question today: How are we going to meet rising electricity demand while maintaining reliability and keeping costs reasonable? The good news is that there are a lot of great...
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GridLab Analysis: Department of Energy Resource Adequacy Report

This memo provides a high-level overview of the recently released Department of Energy (DOE) Resource Adequacy Report, released on July 7, 2025. This report is a result of the Executive Order from the Trump Administration on Strengthening the Reliability and...
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London Calling: How UK Grid Innovation Can CHARGE US States

London is not just a dynamic and trend setting city, it turns out that Great Britain is doing innovative work on how to unlock the value of grid flexibility. GridLab, Advanced Energy United and RMI took seven US state regulators...
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Top Takeaways From ESIG’s Spring Technical Workshop

Twice a year, GridLab looks forward to joining the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) technical workshops, which provide a space for grid practitioners to collaborate and debate about rigorous technical topics...
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Another one bites the dust: Mitigating reliability concerns as the aging US coal fleet is replaced

The average coal plant in the US is 45 years old, born the same year as Queen’s rock anthem “Another one bites the dust.” It’s a little too fitting that this has also become the anthem of coal power generation...
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Shaping the Future of Power Systems Planning: Innovative Modeling Approaches

Hyperbolic load forecasts. Indefinite coal retirement delays. Restarting long-idled nuclear plants. These are just a few of the factors that have slammed the resource planning space in recent months. Across the country, utilities are upending their long-term resource plans and...
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Reflecting on the Challenges Ahead in 2025

We’re just a few weeks into 2025 despite it feeling like we’ve collectively lived through several months already. I managed to snatch a spare moment to reflect on what we learned in 2024 and what we can expect in 2025...
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Solar + Storage Saved the Hot Day

Most readers of this newsletter do not necessarily need data to confirm that the summer of 2024 was sweltering and, in fact, was the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest meteorological summer on record, according to NOAA. So how did two of the...
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GridLab’s Reconductoring Efforts

There is no doubt about it - “reconductoring” is enjoying a (well-deserved!) moment in the sun. (GridLab’s Senior Program Manager Casey Baker has even dubbed it “Hot GETs summer.”) Thanks to mainstream media attention for the 2035 and Beyond: Reconductoring...
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What’s the rush with load growth?

The drumbeat about load growth has been loud and continuous for several months now, kicked off by Grid Strategies’ report “The Era of Flat Power Demand is Over” in December of 2023, followed by Georgia Power’s 2023 IRP update...
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