{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"165335","rtpr_id":"nBw6HKr6Va-20261009","ticker":"NGG","exchange":"NYSE","all_tickers":["NGG"],"title":"Inaugural Power Acceleration Index Announced by GridCARE Identifies Over $300 Billion in Value within the Existing Grid","author":"Business Wire","published_at":"2026-10-09T12:00:00.433Z","article_body":"Inaugural Power Acceleration Index Announced by GridCARE Identifies Over $300\nBillion in Value within the Existing Grid\n\nGridCARE Power Acceleration Qualifies Five Gigawatts of Additional Grid\nCapacity\n\nUtilizing existing grid capacity can create 7-9% lower utility bills for U.S.\nhouseholds\n\nGridCARE, the pioneer of Power Acceleration, announced today that over the\npast 12 months it has qualified 5 gigawatts (GW) of additional load-serving\ncapacity on the existing U.S. grid in partnership with six U.S. utilities. The\ncompany also unveiled its Power Acceleration Index, a national benchmark that\nestimates how much more the existing grid could deliver and what that capacity\nis worth. The Power Acceleration Index’s initial estimate is that up to 120\nGW could be unlocked nationwide, creating up to $350 billion in value,\nexclusively by increasing the efficiency of the existing grid that’s already\nbuilt and paid for. Subject to applicable tariff and regulatory approvals,\nthis value could be credited back, potentially lowering electricity bills by\n7-9% at a time when electricity bills are rising at double the rate of\ninflation.\n\nCritical infrastructure such as data centers, factories, and electric fleets\nface a Time to Energize Crisis: years-long waits to get connected to power,\nand rising concern from everyday ratepayers that they will end up covering the\ncost of grid upgrades that they don’t benefit from. However, in many cases,\nthe grid already has the capacity to serve new large loads, as long as\nthey’re willing to accept flexible terms that ease them off the grid when it\nis under strain. What has been missing is qualification: proof, under current\nreliability standards, of how much flexibility a location needs, when it is\nneeded, and how it must perform. Without that proof, a utility cannot safely\nenergize a flexible site. GridCARE supplies this flexible qualification,\nenabling large new customers to be served from capacity the grid already has.\nIt also provides verification, so utilities can plan around that capacity and\nthe customers can count on it. Leveraging GridCARE’s Power Acceleration\nsolution and playbook, eligible projects can interconnect in months instead of\nyears, without increasing the electricity costs for everyday Americans by a\nsingle cent.\n\n“The debate over AI infrastructure has focused on how much new power America\nneeds to build. We asked a different question: how much power is already\nwithin the grid we have built?” said Amit Narayan, founder and CEO of\nGridCARE. “Power Acceleration unlocks it through software and qualified\nflexibility, without requiring major grid upgrades. We have been actively\nqualifying power market by market, and now the Power Acceleration Index gives\nthe whole industry a way to estimate the broader opportunity for the customers\nwho paid for the grid should share in the value.”\n\nPower Acceleration in Practice\n\nGridCARE’s first project, with Portland General Electric in Hillsboro,\nOregon, qualified more than 400 MW of data center capacity\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gridcare.ai%2Fpost%2Fpge-and-gridcare-accelerate-hundreds-of-megawatts&esheet=54618780&newsitemid=20261009704836&lan=en-US&anchor=400+MW+of+data+center+capacity&index=1&md5=093fca78429ddd2570956647e4527ebc)\n, with 80 MW made available for data centers in 2026 and plans for the rest to\nbe energized by 2029 at the latest, years ahead of the original schedule.\nHillsboro is a sought-after market as it is a termination point for\nfiber-optic submarine cables.\n\nIn addition, GridCARE has qualified more than 2 GW of additional capacity with\nmultiple utilities in the Pacific Northwest region.\n\nWorking with National Grid (NYSE: NGG), GridCARE qualified 650 MW in New York\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gridcare.ai%2Fpost%2Fgridcare-and-national-grid-collaborate-to-unlock-grid-capacity-for-infrastructure&esheet=54618780&newsitemid=20261009704836&lan=en-US&anchor=650+MW+in+New+York&index=2&md5=04f7bd13036a78bfd5dfccb9f6bb258b)\n. National Grid delivers electricity and natural gas to more than 20 million\npeople across New York and Massachusetts. GridCARE identified hidden grid\ncapacity on National Grid’s networks, enabling streamlined and accelerated\ninterconnection for data center customers in New York.\n\n“In our first collaboration, GridCARE identified up to 650 MW of potential\nflexible connection capacity on our network in New York for large, flexible\nloads,” Chief Executive Zoë Yujnovich told investors on National Grid’s\nfull-year results call in May 2026. “This, in turn, reduces the customer\nconnection time and costs.\"\n\nIn South Carolina, Santee Cooper and GridCARE are working together to qualify\nlarge-load capacity on the system to better utilize existing infrastructure.\n\n“Traditional assessments showed that adding load at certain locations on our\nsystem would require lengthy, capital-intensive infrastructure upgrades,”\nsaid Chris Wagner, Senior Director Technical Services at Santee Cooper.\n“Partnering with GridCARE is enabling us to uncover flexible solutions to\nallow near-term capacity growth while maintaining grid reliability and\nadvancing South Carolina’s economic development.”\n\nSouthern California Edison (SCE) has partnered with GridCARE to become the\nfirst utility in California to use physics-based AI technology to qualify\nadditional capacity on otherwise constrained parts of its grid. In an initial\nstudy, SCE selected a constrained Inland Empire circuit to assess whether\nadditional capacity could be identified while maintaining reliability. Working\nwith GridCARE, the analysis identified up to 20 MW of additional flexible\ncapacity that could safely support future customer energization. Details are\nin a companion release: “GridCARE Power Acceleration™ Technology to Help\nCalifornia Utility Support Faster Customer Energization\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businesswire.com%2Fnews%2Fhome%2F20261002397593%2Fen%2FGridCARE-Power-Acceleration-to-Help-California-Utility-Support-Faster-Customer-Energization&esheet=54618780&newsitemid=20261009704836&lan=en-US&anchor=GridCARE+Power+Acceleration%26%238482%3B+Technology+to+Help+California+Utility+Support+Faster+Customer+Energization&index=3&md5=4a568fe5a0b4a80f8d8b760cb35fa94b)\n.”\n\nWhy Flexibility Has to Be Qualified\n\nA flexible load that can reduce its power use when the grid is under strain is\na valuable asset. That capability alone, however, does not establish whether a\nutility can safely connect it. Headroom on the grid is not fixed: every power\nline and substation is shared by all the customers it serves, and headroom\nchanges hour by hour with weather, demand, and equipment outages. Before a\nflexible load can connect safely, the utility must carefully determine how\nmuch power can be allocated under normal conditions and under every outage\nscenario, how often the facility will need to flex, how quickly it must\nrespond, and for how long. Flexibility qualification is essential for the site\nowner, too. Absent qualification, the site's flexibility obligations remain\nopen-ended and can deteriorate over time, leaving a data center’s\nperformance uncertain and unable to secure financing. GridCARE establishes\nthose limits under the utility's own reliability standards.\n\nWorking with the utility's planning and operations teams, GridCARE Power\nAcceleration Activation establishes where existing capacity can serve new\nload, how much flexibility each site needs, and how that flexibility must\nperform to meet the utility's safety and reliability standards. The utility\nverifies those findings in its own planning tools. GridCARE’s Power\nAcceleration Operations then coordinates dispatch, updates forecasts, and\nverifies facility response under utility direction, keeping each site within\nits agreed service commitments and in compliance with the qualification\ncriteria as conditions change.\n\nThe Power Acceleration Index: A National Benchmark\n\nAt its Power Acceleration Summit in San Francisco on October 8, GridCARE\nunveiled the Power Acceleration Index, the first national benchmark to\nestimate how much more the grid America has already built could deliver, and\nwhat that capacity is worth. The grid is built to meet peak demand, so much of\nit sits idle most of the time; a December 2025 Stanford University study\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fenergy.stanford.edu%2Fnews%2Fhidden-transmission-capacity-american-west&esheet=54618780&newsitemid=20261009704836&lan=en-US&anchor=Stanford+University+study&index=4&md5=87aca132ff8a4c5e0be5c6f6dacce43f)\nfound that even at peak, Western utilities used as little as 18% of their\ntransmission line capacity. Yet no industry measure has ever asked how much\nnew load that existing infrastructure could safely serve, or what it would be\nworth to the customers who paid for it. The Index answers both questions using\ncommon, published assumptions.\n\nUnder the Index's screening assumptions:\n\n\n * Moderate qualified flexibility could enable 100-120 GW of additional load\nnationally. Actual capacity at any given site still depends on network- and\nsite-specific studies, but results at the utilities GridCARE has worked with\nshow these figures are achievable.\n\n * Serving that load from existing capacity could create about $270-$350 billion\nin net customer benefit, after incremental energy, connection, flexibility,\nand operating costs. GridCARE calls this the Power Acceleration Dividend.\n\n * Subject to applicable tariff and regulatory approvals, utilities could return\nthe Dividend as bill credits or lower rates, an estimated reduction of about\n7-9% on consumers’ utility bills, or direct it toward grid modernization.\nFor households, that could mean savings of $130-$170 per year.\n\nWhen a new load is served from the existing grid, everyone comes out ahead.\nLarge loads get power years sooner, utilities grow on the system they already\noperate, and communities see a return on infrastructure they have been paying\nfor all along. GridCARE has qualified 5 GW in the past 12 months, and is now\nworking to bring the same result to the rest of the country.\n\nAbout GridCARE\n\nGridCARE is the pioneer of Power Acceleration, serving AI infrastructure and\nother critical industries with capacity that already exists on the grid. Its\nphysics-based AI technology finds that capacity and accelerates energization,\nhelping utilities accommodate growth while protecting reliability and\naffordability.\n\nFounded at Stanford’s Doerr School and backed by AI and energy investors,\nGridCARE advances U.S. AI competitiveness through faster access to\nelectricity. By moving energization schedules forward by years, its platform\nhas enabled more than $10 billion in economic value. Learn more at\nwww.gridcare.ai\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gridcare.ai%2F&esheet=54618780&newsitemid=20261009704836&lan=en-US&anchor=www.gridcare.ai&index=5&md5=19bea4c763185332e2858843a1f727e2)\n.\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261009704836/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261009704836/en/)\n\nMedia contact \n\nGridCARE:\n\nmarketing@gridcare.ai (mailto:marketing@gridcare.ai)\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nBw6HKr6Va-20261009","title":"Inaugural Power Acceleration Index Announced by GridCARE Identifies Over $300 Billion in Value within the Existing Grid","author":"Business Wire","ticker":"NGG","created":"2026-10-09T12:00:00.433Z","tickers":["NGG"],"exchange":"NYSE","article_body":"Inaugural Power Acceleration Index Announced by GridCARE Identifies Over $300\nBillion in Value within the Existing Grid\n\nGridCARE Power Acceleration Qualifies Five Gigawatts of Additional Grid\nCapacity\n\nUtilizing existing grid capacity can create 7-9% lower utility bills for U.S.\nhouseholds\n\nGridCARE, the pioneer of Power Acceleration, announced today that over the\npast 12 months it has qualified 5 gigawatts (GW) of additional load-serving\ncapacity on the existing U.S. grid in partnership with six U.S. utilities. The\ncompany also unveiled its Power Acceleration Index, a national benchmark that\nestimates how much more the existing grid could deliver and what that capacity\nis worth. The Power Acceleration Index’s initial estimate is that up to 120\nGW could be unlocked nationwide, creating up to $350 billion in value,\nexclusively by increasing the efficiency of the existing grid that’s already\nbuilt and paid for. Subject to applicable tariff and regulatory approvals,\nthis value could be credited back, potentially lowering electricity bills by\n7-9% at a time when electricity bills are rising at double the rate of\ninflation.\n\nCritical infrastructure such as data centers, factories, and electric fleets\nface a Time to Energize Crisis: years-long waits to get connected to power,\nand rising concern from everyday ratepayers that they will end up covering the\ncost of grid upgrades that they don’t benefit from. However, in many cases,\nthe grid already has the capacity to serve new large loads, as long as\nthey’re willing to accept flexible terms that ease them off the grid when it\nis under strain. What has been missing is qualification: proof, under current\nreliability standards, of how much flexibility a location needs, when it is\nneeded, and how it must perform. Without that proof, a utility cannot safely\nenergize a flexible site. GridCARE supplies this flexible qualification,\nenabling large new customers to be served from capacity the grid already has.\nIt also provides verification, so utilities can plan around that capacity and\nthe customers can count on it. Leveraging GridCARE’s Power Acceleration\nsolution and playbook, eligible projects can interconnect in months instead of\nyears, without increasing the electricity costs for everyday Americans by a\nsingle cent.\n\n“The debate over AI infrastructure has focused on how much new power America\nneeds to build. We asked a different question: how much power is already\nwithin the grid we have built?” said Amit Narayan, founder and CEO of\nGridCARE. “Power Acceleration unlocks it through software and qualified\nflexibility, without requiring major grid upgrades. We have been actively\nqualifying power market by market, and now the Power Acceleration Index gives\nthe whole industry a way to estimate the broader opportunity for the customers\nwho paid for the grid should share in the value.”\n\nPower Acceleration in Practice\n\nGridCARE’s first project, with Portland General Electric in Hillsboro,\nOregon, qualified more than 400 MW of data center capacity\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gridcare.ai%2Fpost%2Fpge-and-gridcare-accelerate-hundreds-of-megawatts&esheet=54618780&newsitemid=20261009704836&lan=en-US&anchor=400+MW+of+data+center+capacity&index=1&md5=093fca78429ddd2570956647e4527ebc)\n, with 80 MW made available for data centers in 2026 and plans for the rest to\nbe energized by 2029 at the latest, years ahead of the original schedule.\nHillsboro is a sought-after market as it is a termination point for\nfiber-optic submarine cables.\n\nIn addition, GridCARE has qualified more than 2 GW of additional capacity with\nmultiple utilities in the Pacific Northwest region.\n\nWorking with National Grid (NYSE: NGG), GridCARE qualified 650 MW in New York\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gridcare.ai%2Fpost%2Fgridcare-and-national-grid-collaborate-to-unlock-grid-capacity-for-infrastructure&esheet=54618780&newsitemid=20261009704836&lan=en-US&anchor=650+MW+in+New+York&index=2&md5=04f7bd13036a78bfd5dfccb9f6bb258b)\n. National Grid delivers electricity and natural gas to more than 20 million\npeople across New York and Massachusetts. GridCARE identified hidden grid\ncapacity on National Grid’s networks, enabling streamlined and accelerated\ninterconnection for data center customers in New York.\n\n“In our first collaboration, GridCARE identified up to 650 MW of potential\nflexible connection capacity on our network in New York for large, flexible\nloads,” Chief Executive Zoë Yujnovich told investors on National Grid’s\nfull-year results call in May 2026. “This, in turn, reduces the customer\nconnection time and costs.\"\n\nIn South Carolina, Santee Cooper and GridCARE are working together to qualify\nlarge-load capacity on the system to better utilize existing infrastructure.\n\n“Traditional assessments showed that adding load at certain locations on our\nsystem would require lengthy, capital-intensive infrastructure upgrades,”\nsaid Chris Wagner, Senior Director Technical Services at Santee Cooper.\n“Partnering with GridCARE is enabling us to uncover flexible solutions to\nallow near-term capacity growth while maintaining grid reliability and\nadvancing South Carolina’s economic development.”\n\nSouthern California Edison (SCE) has partnered with GridCARE to become the\nfirst utility in California to use physics-based AI technology to qualify\nadditional capacity on otherwise constrained parts of its grid. In an initial\nstudy, SCE selected a constrained Inland Empire circuit to assess whether\nadditional capacity could be identified while maintaining reliability. Working\nwith GridCARE, the analysis identified up to 20 MW of additional flexible\ncapacity that could safely support future customer energization. Details are\nin a companion release: “GridCARE Power Acceleration™ Technology to Help\nCalifornia Utility Support Faster Customer Energization\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businesswire.com%2Fnews%2Fhome%2F20261002397593%2Fen%2FGridCARE-Power-Acceleration-to-Help-California-Utility-Support-Faster-Customer-Energization&esheet=54618780&newsitemid=20261009704836&lan=en-US&anchor=GridCARE+Power+Acceleration%26%238482%3B+Technology+to+Help+California+Utility+Support+Faster+Customer+Energization&index=3&md5=4a568fe5a0b4a80f8d8b760cb35fa94b)\n.”\n\nWhy Flexibility Has to Be Qualified\n\nA flexible load that can reduce its power use when the grid is under strain is\na valuable asset. That capability alone, however, does not establish whether a\nutility can safely connect it. Headroom on the grid is not fixed: every power\nline and substation is shared by all the customers it serves, and headroom\nchanges hour by hour with weather, demand, and equipment outages. Before a\nflexible load can connect safely, the utility must carefully determine how\nmuch power can be allocated under normal conditions and under every outage\nscenario, how often the facility will need to flex, how quickly it must\nrespond, and for how long. Flexibility qualification is essential for the site\nowner, too. Absent qualification, the site's flexibility obligations remain\nopen-ended and can deteriorate over time, leaving a data center’s\nperformance uncertain and unable to secure financing. GridCARE establishes\nthose limits under the utility's own reliability standards.\n\nWorking with the utility's planning and operations teams, GridCARE Power\nAcceleration Activation establishes where existing capacity can serve new\nload, how much flexibility each site needs, and how that flexibility must\nperform to meet the utility's safety and reliability standards. The utility\nverifies those findings in its own planning tools. GridCARE’s Power\nAcceleration Operations then coordinates dispatch, updates forecasts, and\nverifies facility response under utility direction, keeping each site within\nits agreed service commitments and in compliance with the qualification\ncriteria as conditions change.\n\nThe Power Acceleration Index: A National Benchmark\n\nAt its Power Acceleration Summit in San Francisco on October 8, GridCARE\nunveiled the Power Acceleration Index, the first national benchmark to\nestimate how much more the grid America has already built could deliver, and\nwhat that capacity is worth. The grid is built to meet peak demand, so much of\nit sits idle most of the time; a December 2025 Stanford University study\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fenergy.stanford.edu%2Fnews%2Fhidden-transmission-capacity-american-west&esheet=54618780&newsitemid=20261009704836&lan=en-US&anchor=Stanford+University+study&index=4&md5=87aca132ff8a4c5e0be5c6f6dacce43f)\nfound that even at peak, Western utilities used as little as 18% of their\ntransmission line capacity. Yet no industry measure has ever asked how much\nnew load that existing infrastructure could safely serve, or what it would be\nworth to the customers who paid for it. The Index answers both questions using\ncommon, published assumptions.\n\nUnder the Index's screening assumptions:\n\n\n * Moderate qualified flexibility could enable 100-120 GW of additional load\nnationally. Actual capacity at any given site still depends on network- and\nsite-specific studies, but results at the utilities GridCARE has worked with\nshow these figures are achievable.\n\n * Serving that load from existing capacity could create about $270-$350 billion\nin net customer benefit, after incremental energy, connection, flexibility,\nand operating costs. GridCARE calls this the Power Acceleration Dividend.\n\n * Subject to applicable tariff and regulatory approvals, utilities could return\nthe Dividend as bill credits or lower rates, an estimated reduction of about\n7-9% on consumers’ utility bills, or direct it toward grid modernization.\nFor households, that could mean savings of $130-$170 per year.\n\nWhen a new load is served from the existing grid, everyone comes out ahead.\nLarge loads get power years sooner, utilities grow on the system they already\noperate, and communities see a return on infrastructure they have been paying\nfor all along. GridCARE has qualified 5 GW in the past 12 months, and is now\nworking to bring the same result to the rest of the country.\n\nAbout GridCARE\n\nGridCARE is the pioneer of Power Acceleration, serving AI infrastructure and\nother critical industries with capacity that already exists on the grid. Its\nphysics-based AI technology finds that capacity and accelerates energization,\nhelping utilities accommodate growth while protecting reliability and\naffordability.\n\nFounded at Stanford’s Doerr School and backed by AI and energy investors,\nGridCARE advances U.S. AI competitiveness through faster access to\nelectricity. By moving energization schedules forward by years, its platform\nhas enabled more than $10 billion in economic value. Learn more at\nwww.gridcare.ai\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gridcare.ai%2F&esheet=54618780&newsitemid=20261009704836&lan=en-US&anchor=www.gridcare.ai&index=5&md5=19bea4c763185332e2858843a1f727e2)\n.\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261009704836/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261009704836/en/)\n\nMedia contact \n\nGridCARE:\n\nmarketing@gridcare.ai (mailto:marketing@gridcare.ai)\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026"},"type":"article","timestamp":"2026-10-09T12:00:00.596397231Z","server_sent_at_ms":1791547200596},"received_at":"2026-10-09T12:00:00.646Z","source_url":"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261009704836/en/"},"analysis":{"id":"153730","press_release_id":"165335","analysis_json":{"industry":{"label":"Multi-Utilities","sector":"Utilities"},"redFlags":["value estimates are screening-level and subject to tariff and regulatory approvals"],"eventType":"operations_update","narrative":"GridCARE's inaugural Power Acceleration Index estimates 100-120 GW of unlockable capacity worth up to $350 billion on the existing U.S. grid, with the company having qualified 5 GW across six utilities over the past year.\n\nNational Grid (NYSE: NGG) is a named partner: GridCARE identified up to 650 MW of potential flexible connection capacity on National Grid's New York network, which CEO Zoë Yujnovich said reduces customer connection time and costs.\n\nFor NGG, the collaboration signals faster large-load (data center) interconnection without heavy capex, a modest positive but not an issuer-authored financial disclosure.","sentiment":"bullish","agentHooks":{"shouldPost":false,"suggestedAngle":"GridCARE Index puts National Grid's New York flexible-capacity collaboration at 650 MW — early read on software-driven interconnection gains for utilities."},"keyFigures":{"customDimensions":{"index_unlockable_gw":"100-120 GW","ngg_qualified_capacity_mw":650,"household_savings_per_year":"$130-$170","gridcare_total_qualified_gw":5,"power_acceleration_dividend":"$270-$350 billion"}},"quotedText":"In our first collaboration, GridCARE identified up to 650 MW of potential flexible connection capacity on our network in New York for large, flexible loads","namedEntities":{"people":[{"name":"Amit Narayan","role":"Founder and CEO of GridCARE"},{"name":"Zoë Yujnovich","role":"Chief Executive of National Grid"},{"name":"Chris Wagner","role":"Senior Director Technical Services, Santee Cooper"}],"products":["Power Acceleration Index","Power Acceleration Activation","Power Acceleration Operations"],"companies":[{"name":"GridCARE","relationship":"technology partner"},{"name":"National Grid","ticker":"NGG","relationship":"filer/utility partner"},{"name":"Portland General Electric","relationship":"utility partner"},{"name":"Santee Cooper","relationship":"utility partner"},{"name":"Southern California Edison","relationship":"utility partner"},{"name":"Stanford University","relationship":"research source"}],"dollarAmounts":[{"amount":"$300 billion","context":"headline value identified within the existing grid"},{"amount":"$270-$350 billion","context":"estimated Power Acceleration Dividend in net customer benefit"},{"amount":"$130-$170","context":"estimated annual household savings"},{"amount":"$10 billion","context":"economic value enabled by GridCARE platform"}]},"materialImpact":{"score":2,"reasoning":"The release is authored by GridCARE, not National Grid; NGG is featured as a utility partner with 650 MW of qualified flexible capacity in New York. 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