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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...