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Vedeni Energy's Deep Dive provides a weekly, in-depth analysis of the most relevant and timely issues within the U.S. electric power industry.
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Whitepaper: Wildfire-Resilient Grids (opens the original)
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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 bankruptcy of the nation's largest investor-owned utility. This paper evaluates the full toolkit of utility wildfire mitigation: selective undergrounding power lines, covered conductors and other forms of grid hardening, fast-trip protection settings, the public safety power shutoff, a
When AI Joins the Team (opens the original)
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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 whether a piece of software gets a name, a Slack handle, and a line on the org chart. If that sounds strange, you're not imagining it. It's happening at a scale most leaders haven't caught up with, and the way they handle it over the next year will shape how their teams actually work
Large Loads Take Center Stage as September Heat Strains the Eastern Grid (opens the original)
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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 issued a Maximum Generation Alert and a Load Management Alert for September 17 and activated demand response to hold reliability, while MISO invoked emergency measures as demand climbed toward the top of its seasonal range with a large share of its fleet offline for maintenance.
Nuclear Power’s AI Moment (opens the original)
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For the better part of a generation, the story of American nuclear power was one of managed decline. Reactors that had run reliably for decades were closing early, undercut by cheap shale gas, punished by energy-only markets that assigned little value to firm, carbon-free capacity, and stranded by a policy environment that rewarded marginal cost over resilience. Between 2013 and 2022, roughly a dozen units went dark, and the industry’s obituary was written so often it began to read like liturgy.
The Great Flattening: What to Do When Your Team Quietly Doubles (opens the original)
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A director I know went from seven direct reports to fourteen over about nine months. Nobody sat her down to discuss it. Two peers left and were not backfilled, a layer above her was removed in a restructuring, and the org chart redrew itself around her one quiet decision at a time. Her title stayed the same. Her compensation stayed the same. Her calendar turned into a wall of thirty-minute blocks with no space between them. When she finally raised it with her own boss, the answer she got was tha
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