Demonstration of Utility Smart Charge Management for Multiple Benefit Streams

In the summer of 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded funding to Exelon’s Maryland utilities—Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE), Delmarva Power & Light (DPL), and Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco)—to implement the Smart Charge Management (SCM) pilot. This initiative aimed to design and implement managed electric vehicle (EV) charging strategies, evaluate the grid impacts of EV charging, and assess the utilities’ ability to control EV load based on real-time grid conditions.…

Emerging Trends in Power Utility Asset Management

The landscape of asset management within electric utilities is rapidly advancing. In response, asset management teams continue to evolve to adopt and adhere to changing standards, shift team structures to support utility priorities, and optimize data collection and usage to drive better informed asset decisions. Through CEATI’s extensive, global network of power utility members, several key asset management trends have emerged across 2024 and 2025. This paper synthesizes insights from recent CEATI research and benchmarking activities, with the intent to assist utilities in identifying strategic opportunities and enhancing asset management practices to meet current and emerging industry demands.…

Photonics-Integrated Terahertz Transmission Lines

Modern communication and sensing technologies connect the optical domain with the microwave domain. Accessing the terahertz region from 100 GHz to 10 THz is critical for providing larger bandwidths capabilities. Despite progress in integrated electronics, they lack a direct link to the optical domain, and face challenges with increasing frequencies ( > 1 THz). Electro-optic effects offer promising capabilities but are currently limited to bulk nonlinear crystals, missing out miniaturization, or to sub-terahertz bandwidths. Here, we address these challenges by realizing photonic circuits that integrate terahertz transmission lines on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN). By providing terahertz field confinement and phase-matched …

Optimizing Modern Energy Programs for Financially Constrained Households

An overwhelming 78% of respondents reported at least one serious issue in their homes. From leaky roofs and broken stairs to mold and pest infestations, these conditions represent more than inconvenience—they’re safety risks and major obstacles to energy efficiency. Structural degradation makes it impossible to implement insulation, air sealing, or HVAC improvements. Compounding the issue is the nature of home heating systems. Over half of respondents reported using electricity as their primary heating source, and electricity was cited as the primary or secondary heating source for 92% of these households. This suggests that most are relying Heating Source on outdated …

Battery Energy Storage Impact and Benefits Assessments in MISO

MISO is expecting a significant increase in demand for electricity (peak load growing to~130GW by 2035), putting a strain on generation and transmission networks at a time of increasing renewables penetration. As new, diversified resources are added to the grid, battery capacity will be needed for MISO to maintain reliability and manage large ramping requirements in evenings, particularly considering the challenges in bringing new thermal generation online.…

Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025

Despite a slowdown in global economic growth prospects, the world’s electricity consumption increased strongly in the first half of 2025, driven by rising demand from industry, appliances, cooling, data centres and electrification. At the same time, electricity supply from renewables, natural gas and nuclear continues to grow, with all set to reach new milestones.

This mid-year update follows the extensive Electricity 2025 report released in February, examining the latest trends and the outlook for the remainder of the year. It includes updated data for 2024 along with new forecasts for 2025 and 2026 covering areas such as global electricity demand, …

The Scale of Contribution: Vehicles

The Trump Administration is expected to rescind the Environmental Protection Agency’s fifteen-year-old finding that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles contribute to climate change and harm public health and welfare. For months EPA has been questioning the long-settled understanding that major U.S. sectors like motor vehicles make substantial contributions to climate change, arguing instead that U.S. vehicles contribute “some mysterious amount above zero to climate change and that climate change creates some mysterious amount of endangerment above zero to public health.”…

Integrating energy justice and economic realities through insights on energy expenditures, inequality, and renewable energy attitudes

Energy justice is a cornerstone of the European Union’s pursuit of climate neutrality by 2050, addressing both environmental and societal challenges. This research employs a representative survey to analyze household expenditures on electricity, natural gas, and heating, evaluating the extent of energy inequality and its implications for affordability and access across income groups. The study also explores public attitudes toward renewable energy, focusing on perceived benefits, barriers, and willingness to adopt these technologies. Although the findings center on Lithuania, they offer valuable insights for other valuable insights other EU countries by highlighting shared challenges and opportunities in addressing energy inequality …

Build AI in America

Building AI in the United States is a national security and economic imperative. As AI systems grow more capable, the energy and computational requirements to train and deploy frontier AI are surging. Recent estimates by outside experts and our own research at Anthropic suggest that the U.S. AI sector is on track to require at least 50 gigawatts of electric capacity by 2028, much of which will be needed to train the world’s most capable models.

America has the economic strength and technical expertise to meet these needs. But doing so will require addressing regulatory challenges—as well as supply chain, …

Exhaustive Precedent

Section 202(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate emissions from new motor vehicles that “cause, or contribute to,” dangerous air pollution. In 2007, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that greenhouse gas emissions are covered by Section 202(a)(1) and that EPA must regulate those emissions from new motor vehicles if the agency finds that they contribute to air pollution that endangers public health or welfare. In 2009, EPA made the requisite findings concerning endangerment and contribution based on extensive, peer-reviewed science and thousands of public comments. As a result, EPA established standards …