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Demand Response as a Capacity Resource in SPP’s Era of Data Center Growth

October 7, 2025

SPP is in the middle of a reliability rethink. The region’s highest-risk hours are no longer just hot summer afternoons. …

E3 Conducts Cost-Benefit Assessment of Grid-Enhancing Technologies in Maine

September 18, 2025

Maine’s electric grid is facing pressures: aging infrastructure, rising electricity demand due to home and vehicle electrification, and the integration …

New Methods to Address Heightened Uncertainty: E3 Releases Review of Probabilistic Planning Methods For Transmission Planners

September 18, 2025

Decarbonization policies, the accelerated integration of renewable energy resources, rising electrification demands, and the growing frequency and severity of extreme …

A New Framework for Resource Adequacy: Insights from E3’s Latest White Paper

August 12, 2025

Electricity systems are under increasing stress related to resource adequacy. Unprecedented load growth, changes in historical weather patterns, retirement of …

New York Approves 2025 Draft Energy Plan

August 1, 2025

New York’s State Energy Planning Board recently reached a significant milestone, approving the state’s 2025 Draft Energy Plan – a …

Potential Market Opportunities for Offshore Wind in Atlantic Canada

July 18, 2025

Canada has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40–45% below 2005 levels by 2030 and reaching net-zero by 2050. …

A Planning Framework for Non-Pipeline Alternatives

July 16, 2025

As states, cities, and utilities plan to meet decarbonization goals, electrification has emerged as a key strategy to reduce emissions …

Sharing Lessons on Long Duration Energy Storage with China’s Energy Leaders

June 12, 2025

E3’s Manfei Wu and Adrian Au participated in a panel hosted at UC Berkeley in partnership with Energy Innovation, meeting …

E3 Selected to Lead the Next Phase of CPUC IRP Support

May 13, 2025

We're excited to share that E3 has been selected to continue supporting the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Integrated Resource …

Forecasting Anywhere: A Geospatial Forecasting Tool for Distribution Planning

April 15, 2025

E3 and Integral Analytics (IA) partnered to build Forecasting Anywhere, a geospatial forecasting tool designed to meet the emerging needs …

2024 Transmission Recap: A Pivotal Year

January 31, 2025

Transmission has long been considered a key missing piece of the clean energy transition. While wind and solar growth has …

Virginia’s Data Center Boom: E3 Report Analyzes Grid Strain and Customer Impacts

December 10, 2024

E3 has published a first-of-a-kind analysis and report that rigorously quantifies the grid and customer impacts of continued data center …

Measuring the Economic Potential of Decarbonized Heat

October 30, 2024

While the US has made progress in reducing economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions, the industrial sector continues to face significant challenges …

A Roadmap for Integrated System Planning

October 22, 2024

Integrated system planning is a pioneering effort to integrate generation, transmission, distribution, and customer/DER planning in a single holistic process. …

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