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E3 in 2025: Insights from a Big Year for Reliability, Electrification, and Large Loads

December 15, 2025

2025 was a turbulent year for the energy sector. Demand from electrification and data centers surged at the same time …

Insights from New Jersey’s Latest Energy Master Plan

December 15, 2025

New Jersey has released its 2024 Energy Master Plan, finalized and published in 2025. E3 supported the State by providing …

E3 Supports U.S. Climate Alliance in 2025 Annual Report on State-Led Progress and Pathways to Net Zero

December 1, 2025

The U.S. Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of governors committed to securing America’s net-zero future, released its 2025 Annual Report, …

California’s Clean Energy Permitting Initiative: Resources to Reduce Barriers for Large-Scale Renewables

November 21, 2025

California state law sets a target of 100% clean electricity sales and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045, which requires developing …

New PG&E Electrification Impact Study: Smart Planning Can Lower Long-Term Costs

November 12, 2025

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) recently filed its draft Electrification Impact Study (EIS) Part 2 with the California Public …

Meeting New Brunswick’s Growing Capacity Needs with a Future-Ready Resource Adequacy Planning Framework

November 10, 2025

New Brunswick Power (NB Power) is entering a period of heightened electricity reliability challenges. With accelerating load growth, aging infrastructure, …

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 …

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