The Midterms Spotlighted Energy Costs. Congress Can Address Them This Year.

A bipartisan bill to bring energy bills down is ready now, and the lame-duck session is the time to pass it. In the national voter poll conducted for the Associated Press and major TV networks during Tuesday’s midterm elections, nearly 9 in 10 voters said the cost of living was a...

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What Breaks Through on Transmission

As electricity bills become the defining kitchen-table issue of 2026, polling from across the ideological spectrum keeps pointing to the same conclusions about how the public thinks about the grid. Electricity affordability has moved to the center of American politics, and the anxiety...

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Rules for Connecting to the Grid Only Go So Far if There Isn’t Enough Grid

The United States is in the middle of the strongest four-year growth in electricity demand since 2000. After two decades of essentially flat load, demand is climbing again — driven by data centers, new manufacturing, and the broader electrification of the economy. That shift is...

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Congress Is Examining the State of the Grid — Here’s What the Data Shows About What Customers Need

Grid reliability and affordability are getting sustained attention on Capitol Hill. Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy held a hearing on lessons from Winter Storm Fern. This week, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee convenes to examine the...

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Trump’s AI Plan Highlights the Urgent Need to Build a Smarter, Stronger Grid

By Christina Hayes, Executive Director of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid President Trump’s recent announcement of America’s AI Action Plan, promoting American leadership in artificial intelligence, is an exciting call to action. It provides guidance on several key components need...

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Strengthening State Involvement in Regional Transmission Planning

By Christina Hayes, Executive Director of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid You can’t open the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, or Washington Post – let alone trade press – without seeing screaming headlines about artificial intelligence and data farms and how they threaten to...

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Future-Proofing the Grid: How Smart Transmission Planning Can Meet Soaring Demand.

By Christina Hayes, Executive Director of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid You can’t open the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, or Washington Post – let alone trade press – without seeing screaming headlines about artificial intelligence and data farms and how they threaten to...

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