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In an op-ed for Utility Dive, United’s Alex Lawton discusses the drivers of transmission investment growth, which, in its current state, is more expensive and leaves us with an inefficient energy system. To ensure a more affordable and modernized grid, Lawton offers a two-pronged approach, targeting inefficient spending while spurring investments that promote beneficial transmission development.

Nevada’s KNUR Public Radio reports on Advanced Energy United’s new report, which outlines a path toward a single, West-wide regional energy market that would allow utilities to buy and sell electricity across state lines more seamlessly. The station interviewed United Managing Director Leah Rubin Shen, who emphasizes that state governments and utilities need to work together to keep the lights on and costs down.

PJM Interconnection has long relied on fossil-based generation to try and meet rising load growth. United’s Jon Gordon explores a new analysis from Synapse Energy Economics, which shows that deploying a mix of advanced energy solutions instead would allow PJM to meet growing electricity demand, increase energy affordability, and bolster grid reliability across the grid operator’s 13-state region.

The Mid-Atlantic and parts of the Midwest could experience 97% fewer power outages by 2030 if the PJM region deploys more advanced energy technologies, according to a new analysis from Advanced Energy United.

Reliability and affordability are of paramount importance for PJM. Two paths lie ahead for the region: One in which primarily gas resources are deployed to meet rising load, and one in which policy change enables higher deployment of advanced energy resources (wind, solar and storage, demand flexibility resources, and advanced transmission technologies). A new analysis, conducted by Synapse Energy Economics for Advanced Energy United, analyzes these pathways from a reliability and cost perspective.

As electricity demand rises across the West and grid reliability and affordability concerns persist, a new report from Advanced Energy United shows that the Regional Organization for Western Energy (ROWE) offers a practical, uniquely Western-built pathway to a stronger regional grid.  

The Western electric grid operates as a fragmented patchwork: Thirty-eight separate grid operators manage power across 11 states, each required to generate and dispatch enough energy to meet its own peak demand. The path forward is clear, and the vision is achievable: the broadest and most diverse regional energy market in the nation, built by the West for the West, and grounded in affordability, reliability, and choice.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) published a new 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment, spotlighting the growing resource adequacy risks throughout the U.S. bulk power system.

The proposal today from the White House acknowledges that energy demand is forecast to grow much faster than the grid operator PJM Interconnection is currently able to bring on new generating resources. Advanced Energy United supports market solutions that give the companies in these sectors equal opportunity to compete to provide the power that the PJM region needs.

As large energy load users, including data centers, seek faster connection to the power grid of PJM Interconnection, co-locating with power plants or committing to flexible operations are promising compromises. Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a new order that has the potential to create much-welcome regulatory certainty for large load customers as well as some safeguards to ensure that co-location won’t negatively impact the electric rates and system reliability of all other customers.

Heatmap News reports on PJM Interconnection’s escalating debate over how to manage demand. United’s Jon Gordon provides context throughout the piece on PJM’s pending rule changes, the competing stakeholder proposals, and the challenge of balancing reliability, consumer protection, and rapid data center growth.

The Center Square reports on the core issues driving demands by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and others for greater state influence and reform in the governance of PJM Interconnection. The article quotes United’s Jon Gordon, who emphasized United’s support for increased state engagement and advocacy at PJM to ensure the provision of affordable, safe, and reliable electricity for the region’s residents and businesses.