Vedeni Energy’s Deep Dive

The arrival of artificial intelligence data centers has turned large-load interconnection into one of the most pressing problems in the North American power sector. Requests for new service now exceed the physical...

By late October, review meetings are filling calendars while the forms are still half finished. The task is familiar: summarize twelve months of someone's work in a few paragraphs, assign a rating, defend it in...

North American wholesale power markets were defined this week by a brief but genuine reliability scare in the East rather than by the calendar. Unseasonable mid-October warmth collided with the year's heaviest autumn...

The most consequential U.S. electric-power development this week concerned neither a new power plant nor a high-voltage corridor. It concerned the wires already in place. On October 13, the U.S. Department of Energy...

Friday is Boss's Day, when teams may pass around a card or bring in a sheet cake. A more useful gesture would be to find out whether the feedback managers believe they provide is reaching employees as intended. The...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act of July 2025 rewrote the federal incentive architecture that the Inflation Reduction Act had built only three years earlier. For wind and solar, the clean energy tax credit phaseout now...

Picture this: One of your analysts uses an AI tool to prepare a client summary on a Thursday afternoon. The tool invents a number. She catches it, fixes it, and delivers the report on time. She tells no one. The next...

North American wholesale power markets spent the last week of September and the first days of October in a decidedly structural, rather than weather-driven, posture. Mild shoulder-season conditions across most of the...

For the better part of a decade, virtual power plants occupied an awkward position in the American electricity conversation. Utilities and system operators acknowledged the concept, researchers published optimistic cost...

Picture the meeting where your company approved its AI budget. Someone put up a slide promising that employees would reclaim hours every week. Everyone nodded. Now look at your team’s calendar, your inbox, and the faces...

Two storylines dominated North American power markets during the week, both rooted in the same underlying pressure: surging data-center demand and the question of how the grid will be organized to serve it. In the West...

In the third week of September 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy reached a milestone that would have been difficult to imagine only a few years ago. With directives issued between September 17 and 19, the agency’s...

Utility-sparked wildfires have become one of the largest financial risks in the North American power sector, producing tens of billions of dollars in wildfire liability, a string of credit downgrades, and the 2019...

Somewhere in the last year, "AI agent" stopped being a phrase for engineers and started appearing in the same sentence as "headcount." Managers who used to worry about staffing a project now find themselves deciding...

An unseasonable mid-September heat wave was the week's defining operational event, pushing temperatures well above normal across the eastern Interconnection and colliding with a compressed autumn maintenance window. PJM...