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The RMI report 'The State of Utility Planning, 2025 Q3' analyzes integrated resource plans (IRPs) for electric utilities across the United States. It finds that utilities are increasing projected load and emissions through 2035, driven by large new loads like data centers and uncertainties in policy and regulation. This has led to a trend of delaying fossil fuel plant retirements to ensure resource adequacy, creating a gap between current utility plans and the net-zero emissions targets required for climate alignment.

The RMI report 'The State of Utility Planning, 2024 Q4' analyzes updates to Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs) for US electric utilities. It finds that while load projections did not increase in Q4 2024, utilities increased planned gas capacity and reduced planned wind and solar capacity, leading to an 8 percent increase in projected emissions for those updating their plans.

This toolkit provides electric utility regulators with tools, benchmarks, and guidance to ensure that utility integrated resource plans (IRPs) fully incorporate the funding and opportunities provided by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

The report "TURB CHARGING EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS" by RMI provides a framework for electric utilities to increase energy savings by pursuing both "broader" (increasing participant numbers) and "deeper" (increasing savings per participant) strategies. It identifies systemic barriers, such as the historical monopoly structure of utilities and rigid regulatory frameworks, and offers recommendations to improve marketing, sales execution, transaction costs, and collaboration.

This report argues that electric utilities must shift from a traditional model of managing uncontrollable demand with large 'baseload' plants to a new paradigm using a diversified portfolio of smaller, variable resources, including energy efficiency and renewables, to maintain reliability and cost-effectiveness.

This research paper examines the drivers for U.S. commercial and industrial customers seeking renewable energy and proposes the use of green tariffs as a mechanism for traditional utilities to compete with third-party providers while maintaining regulatory compliance.

This research paper examines the financial health of Tamil Nadu's state-owned electric utility, TANGEDCO, using the Revenue and Tariff Analysis for Electric Utilities (RATE) model to analyze the impacts of various demand-supply and energy balance scenarios.