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With electricity demand increasing by leaps and bounds thanks to artificial intelligence, the company is busier than ever, maintaining aging power plants and modernizing their transmission lines.

The incident, caused by a temporary shutdown at the Edra Melaka power plant, highlights growing pressure on the national grid as demand for electricity rises and reserve margins stay tight, she says.

But supply-chain snarls and permitting challenges are complicating everything, and the U.S. isn’t building transmission infrastructure or power plants fast enough to meet the sudden surge in demand for electricity.

He explains that the problem is that the grid "was designed in the days when we had just a few very large, mainly gas-fired power plants".

The company linked the big power swings to the generation of renewable energy, and the long time it takes for conventional power plants to react to oversupply.