The grid was built to deliver electricity to the people to light, warm, and power their homes.  In colder climates, the operation of the grid is critical to ensuring people have access to running, water, food, and most importantly warmth. Evaluating the grid based on its performance in the cold winter months is a fair benchmark to use. More recently the energy space has talked about peak summer demand during heat waves as the primary driver of requiring the grid to change. Bu

01/20/2026 Part 1 — The Electric Grid Is Changing Faster Than We Can See Vlog: Cue Backstory - why this series exists and what a study of the DC grid taught us Last fall, when we presented to our regulators on accelerating adoption of renewable energy in DC , something clicked for us in real time. We didn’t just show some pretty maps and talk technical jargon. We showed how both sides of our distribution grid’s supply–demand equation are changing in real time…  Hosting capaci