Artificial Intelligence Has Entered the Grid: What U.S. Utilities are Doing with AI—and Why Scale Remains Constrained
U.S. utilities are adopting AI cautiously—piloting tools for forecasting, reliability, and large-load management while avoiding autonomous control. The constraint isn’t technology, but governance, data, regulation, and risk tolerance.
AI in Grid Planning: The Burden of Proof
AI can accelerate planning work, but speed is not an evidentiary standard. The more an AI output can shape an infrastructure decision, the more utilities should require traceability, independent validation, reproducibility, controlled change, and accountable engineering judgment.
Tianqiao Zhao
