Writing from the grid.
Essays on power markets, physical infrastructure, and the product systems that make both easier to reason about. For data stories reconstructed from real ISO records, visit the research desk.
August 29, 2026 · Grid · 12 min
Power-grid neural solvers are moving beyond one grid, one task.
The strongest new models do more than imitate one optimal power-flow run. They propose an AC grid state, correct it against physics, and hand the hard cases back to numerical optimization.
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August 12, 2026 · Grid · 2 min
The U.S. electricity network, rendered from orbit.
A downloadable, high-resolution view of mapped transmission lines, high-voltage substations, and operating power plants across the contiguous United States.
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July 26, 2026 · Platform · 11 min
How to read data-center clusters through the interconnection queue.
A field guide to moving from ERCOT queue counties to individual projects, nearby grid assets, web-verified data centers, and the load and price regimes around them.
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July 23, 2026 · Platform · 7 min
The grid needs an interface agents can reason with.
Nine typed tools, one authenticated resource per market, and a dataset contract that travels with every number. What it takes to make the grid legible to an agent.
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July 16, 2026 · Markets · 5 min
Congestion is a physical story.
A price separation is the beginning of the analysis. Following it into system lambda, binding constraints, outages, and weather is the rest of it.
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July 9, 2026 · Platform · 5 min
A power-market interface should remember time.
Forecast vintages, live feeds, and delayed disclosures become knowable at different moments. Event time and publication time have to stay apart.
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