After almost two decades of flat consumption, U.S. electricity demand is rising. Demand growth is coming. Even practitioners forget just how massive today’s U.S. power utility sector is: almost 600,000 people invest $200 billion a year, receive $500 billion in revenue, and operate a $2 trillion machine that is our energy infrastructure. Turning that machine into a growth engine, at a faster rate than at any time since the 1980s, means applying extra capital and new technology to extract key energy data.
We know that market growth is coming, but that doesn’t mean it’s automatic, or even that industry experts share certainty. For example, in December 2024, the State Corporation Commission of Virginia held a conference on data center expansion in which consultant and economist James Wilson said: “Sitting here right now, I think our forecast of data center load for, say, 2032 is probably off by a factor of two. I just don’t know which way, two times too high or two times too low.”
The information labyrinth
Here in the U.S., a great deal of what will happen in the electricity sector — the who, what, when, where, and how much — is buried in dockets and documents filed with state public utility commissions across the country. Extracting information from PUC filings is quite challenging for several reasons:
- PUC websites are notoriously difficult to navigate and lack standardization.
- The dockets and documents are dense, technical, long, and require significant expertise to interpret.
- Missing a key detail or being late to this information can cost millions.
Energy professionals have traditionally spent countless hours manually checking multiple websites, setting up ineffective or inadequate alerts, or hiring expensive consultants.
A better way to stay informed
Enter Halcyon Alerts. Halcyon has created free, customizable email alerts that keep energy professionals updated on the latest PUC fillings. Halcyon Alerts leverage Halcyon’s authoritative data catalog, which is updated daily with thousands of dockets from state PUCs. This ongoing aggregation is no small feat, but it’s only the first step in the lengthy research processes for which these Alerts were built.
Once the new data is collected and organized, Halcyon uses AI-powered summaries and descriptions to make the emails easily digestible and facilitate at-a-glance discovery and comprehension — no more clicking through multiple websites and CTRL+F’ing your way through PDFs just to figure out if something actually matters.
While a docket firehose might be useful for some energy professionals, Halcyon Alerts offers the ability to filter dockets based on specific topics like interconnection, data centers, or wildfires. Subscribers can control delivery frequency to match their workflows, and can opt to receive an email when there is no new information collected.
Built for those who know, and those who don’t
Halcyon Alerts serves two primary use cases. First are those who know what they don’t know — they want to track specific dockets only, so that they know when something new happens. Second are those who don’t know what they don’t know — they want to identify and monitor market trends at a higher level to discover new growth opportunities and build market intelligence.
For those in the first camp, Halcyon Alerts recently introduced the ability to follow a docket, which allows subscribers to customize their alerts with relevant dockets that span multiple markets or topics. Those in the second group can use Halcyon’s built-in controls and preferences to spot emerging patterns in energy data and regulatory shifts before their competitors.
Both groups need to get the information right, which is why Halcyon Alerts includes citations and links back to the original source documents for quick verification.
Going beyond email
For many, the information within Halcyon Alerts is novel and sufficiently useful. But for some, the email alert is a jumping off point, a catalyst that sparks a line of inquiry that can’t be answered by the email itself.
For folks wondering about historical docket context, Halcyon Alerts contain links to docket profiles, which standardize information into a uniform view with docket summary, timeline, participants, latest documents, and FAQs.
And for those for whom an email leads to a series of questions that goes beyond dockets, Halcyon Helpdesk is only an email away. Helpdesk empowers energy professionals to supercharge their team’s capacity and productivity by leveraging Halcyon’s platform to complete research projects in a fraction of the time and cost it would normally take.
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