by Allie Judge | Feb 3, 2026
Now in its third iteration, the 2025 Transmission Planning and Development Report Card provides an updated assessment of U.S. transmission planning and development across ten regions. The first edition of the Report Card was published in 2023, followed by an Interim...
by Allie Judge | Nov 18, 2025
Since 2023, Grid Strategies has published an annual report examining the near-term load forecasts published by utilities and regional transmission operators in the U.S. Our 2023 report, The Era of Flat Power Demand is Over, received news coverage as the first study to...
by Allie Judge | Nov 13, 2025
When the grid cannot deliver the lowest-cost generation to load, more expensive generation is dispatched instead, raising prices. This cost is reported as “transmission congestion” in organized wholesale markets administered by regional transmission organizations...
by Kimberly Nelson | Apr 20, 2023
Our report Transmission Congestion Costs in the U.S. RTOs relies on congestion rents because that metric is reported by Regional Transmission Organization market monitors, and we believe it is a good approximation of societal congestion costs because the short-term...
