“The grid will become even more AI-enabled in the next year as AI becomes necessary for utilities to be more efficient,” Pradeep Tagare, head of Investments with National Grid Partners, told POWER. “In our recent Utility Innovation Survey, we saw this in real time: utilities are no longer treating AI as ‘nice to have,’ but rather as a strategic tool to manage load growth, enable reliability, and accelerate grid expansion. Due to the pressures that the electrification of heating, transport, and data center e ...