Business Wire·Oct 9, 2026, 8:00 AM ET

Inaugural Power Acceleration Index Announced by GridCARE Identifies Over $300 Billion in Value within the Existing Grid

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GridCARE qualified 5 gigawatts of additional load-serving capacity on the existing U.S. grid over the past 12 months in partnership with six utilities.
The company unveiled the Power Acceleration Index, a national benchmark estimating that up to 120 GW of capacity could be unlocked nationwide by optimizing existing infrastructure.
Unlocking this potential could generate up to $350 billion in value, potentially lowering U.S. household electricity bills by 7-9% through bill credits.
The solution addresses the Time to Energize Crisis by enabling projects to interconnect in months rather than years without requiring major grid upgrades or increasing consumer costs.
GridCARE has already qualified over 400 MW of data center capacity with Portland General Electric in Oregon, with plans to energize 80 MW in 2026.
Partnerships in the Pacific Northwest have secured more than 2 GW of additional capacity, while National Grid in New York identified 650 MW of potential flexible connection capacity.
Santee Cooper in South Carolina is utilizing the platform to enable near-term capacity growth without lengthy infrastructure upgrades, maintaining grid reliability.
Southern California Edison became the first California utility to use physics-based AI technology to identify up to 20 MW of additional flexible capacity in the Inland Empire.
Flexibility qualification is essential to prove under current reliability standards how much power can be allocated during normal conditions & every outage scenario.
The Power Acceleration Index estimates that moderate qualified flexibility could serve 100-120 GW of additional load, creating a "Power Acceleration Dividend" of $270-$350 billion.
GridCARE's platform, founded at Stanford's Doerr School, has enabled over $10 billion in economic value by accelerating energization schedules for AI infrastructure.