Load Growth Forecast Reports

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...

Transmission Congestion in the U.S.

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...

A review of reports on Spanish blackout causes and solutions

by Julia | Jun 24, 2025

Michael Goggin, Grid Strategies June 24, 2025 Last week, the Spanish government and Spanish grid operator Red Electrica released lengthy reports on the blackout that affected the Iberian Peninsula on April 28, 2025, along with a shorter press release summary of the...

Note on the Use of Congestion Rents to Approximate Societal Costs of Transmission Congestion

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...

Transmission Benefits All Users of the Power Grid

by Kimberly Nelson | Oct 11, 2022

Transmission Benefits All Users of the Power Grid A large share of transmission’s benefits are unrelated to expanding use of renewable resources. For example, one of the largest benefits of transmission is that it aggregates diverse sources of electricity demand,...