“Reliability and resilience are not only technical achievements. They are human ones, built on education, awareness, and trust, and sometimes the most important investment we can make is teaching a teenager what to do when a wire comes down.”

“This research is the first to estimate the price impact of new load from data centers using a causal methodology. The study concludes that, on average, data centers put downward pressure on residential electricity rates during the period analyzed.”

“The energy industry is moving beyond innovation for innovation’s sake. We’re entering a period where success will be measured less by the technologies we deploy and more by how effectively we integrate them into the way we plan, operate, and regulate the electric system.”

The electric power industry’s top minds convened for EEI 2026, the Edison Electric Institute’s premier annual thought leadership forum, in Las Vegas in June.

“Root cause analysis in incident response is more complicated as industrial automation grows. New scenarios need to be blended by the planning team to incorporate thinking and questioning as to what might be possible and what an adversary would have to do to attack the water system.”

From September 21–24, 2026, the global energy regulatory community will gather in Tbilisi, Georgia, for WFER IX under the theme “When Balance Is Achieved.”

“A major utility serving a mix of these customers is no longer diversified at scale even though it serves AI operators in multiple jurisdictions. It is exposed to a single wager held by a tiny club of whales.”