AI, Energy and Climate: AI, Innovation and the Power Sector: Sandy Grace

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Electric utilities are not generally known as hotbeds of innovation. What would it take for electric utilities to become more innovative? What impact would that have on the adoption of AI technologies in the power sector? Can AI tools help control power price increases for households, instead of creating pressures for increased power prices due to data center demand? Join host David Sandalow as he discusses these topics and others with Sandy Grace, Vice President of US Policy and Regulatory Strategy at National Grid. This material is distributed by TRG Advisory Services, LLC on behalf of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the U.S.. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.4	Welcome to the AI Energy and Climate Podcast, a special series from the DSR Network hosted by David Sandalow, inaugural fellow at Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy.
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1:37.3	Hi, I'm David Sandalo. This is the AI Energy and Climate Podcast. Electric utilities are not
1:52.1	generally known as hotbeds of innovation. Historically, many utilities have been slow to
1:58.1	adopt innovative technologies and resistant to new business models
2:02.1	and approaches. There are a number of reasons for that, including the ways that many electric
2:07.2	utilities earn money, typically as a regulated rate of return on capital investments.
2:14.1	That incentive structure has been identified by many experts as a barrier to the adoption of
2:18.4	innovative AI technologies that could help transform the operations of electric utilities.
2:24.9	Several weeks ago, I heard Sandy Grace, the Vice President for U.S. policy and regulatory affairs
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