How Utilities Are Planning for Demand

Load growth is not a temporary challenge and opportunity. Ongoing demand from data centers, manufacturing facilities, and the electrification of transportation, heating, and cooling ensure that utilities must plan wisely to efficiently meet load growth. This episode will look decades into the future and assess the tools available to meet demand. It will explore how planning can help utilities make...

Growing demand for electricity is a reality for many utilities. What also distinguishes load growth today is that customers — especially data center developers — need power on a faster timeline than most utilities typically operate. What tools do utilities have to satisfy customer demand in the short term while also building the long-term grid infrastructure needed to meet steadily growing demand?

Whether it’s growing demand, an aging workforce and grid, or the influx of renewable energy, the utility sector is more complex than ever. Explore the issues utility leaders must navigate to reliably and affordably deliver growing amounts of electricity.