Utility Dive

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Nick Josefowitz is founder and chief executive of Permit Power, a national nonprofit that advocates to make it easier for residential customers to install solar, batteries and other energy upgrades. American families are rightly frustrated that their electricity bills have been rising too high and too quickly.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Ari Peskoe is director of Harvard Law School’s Electricity Law Initiative. Data center developers in March agreed to the White House’s ratepayer protection pledge, committing to “pay for all new power delivery infrastructure required” for their projects, including upgrades to local transmission networks.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Purvi Patel is vice president of regulatory strategy for ITC Holdings Corp., where she promotes long-term transmission infrastructure investments by shaping regulatory policies that strengthen grid reliability and enable the efficient interconnection of new generation resources.

Note: It’s widely expected that by the end of the decade, quantum computers will reach a level of maturity that they’ll start meaningfully contributing to a major commercial breakthrough and spur interest in the technology the way ChatGPT sparked interest and billions of investments into artificial intelligence.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The U.S. Department of Energy outlined a plan to increase defense spending by 21% while cutting non-defense spending by 16% in a congressional budget justification released last week in support of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2027. The administration is asking Congress to increase DOE’s total discretionary budget by nearly 10% to $53.9 billion.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Mark Christie is on the faculty at William & Mary Law School, where he teaches energy law and is the founding director of the Center for Energy Law and Policy. He is a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Fred Bailey is managing partner at Gideon Arktos and former operations and integration chief at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Frank Willey is an assistant director in the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Shaun Walsh is chief marketing officer at Peak Nano, an advanced materials manufacturer. Some of today’s most important technologies didn’t come to dominate because they were better. They won over alternatives because they were easier to deploy, fit existing business models, or were better marketed. Over time, we often discover that the “runner‑up” is better suited for where the world is headed.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Wilson Ricks is a manager in the Clean Air Task Force’s electricity program. Over the past decade, corporate electricity procurement has undeniably helped catalyze a meaningful amount of clean energy development.

The technology to move utility bill payment online has existed for years. The customer's willingness to use it, in many service territories, has not kept pace. According to recent consumer trends data, 80% of consumers surveyed say they distrust digital platforms that appear visually outdated — and more than 55% will abandon a payment transaction mid-process if the experience feels unclear or insecure.