Insights - Beyond Net Zero

Regulatory analysis and strategy for leaders working through utility rate cases and resource plans, water availability and allocation, large development and the cities receiving it, and disclosure regimes including CSRD, ISSB, SB 253, and CBAM.

High-voltage transmission lines near a large data center construction site, illustrating large load grid interconnection | Gasilov Group 2026

Who decides how large loads connect to the grid?

Large load interconnection now splits between states and FERC. What the June 2026 show cause orders change for data centers and factories, from Gasilov Group.

Energy & Grid Insights

Transmission lines feeding a hyperscale data center campus, the grid infrastructure behind rising residential electricity bills. | Gasilov Group 2026

Do data centers raise your electricity bill? Yes, and often before they exist

Do data centers raise your electricity bill? Yes: capacity auctions, utility rate base, and state cost allocation rules decide how much. Gasilov Group explains the mechanism and what to check.

Energy & Grid Insights

Past-due residential electric bill representing US household utility debt and energy affordability costs.

America already funds an energy affordability program, and it overpays for bad coverage

US ratepayers and taxpayers already spend roughly USD 6 billion a year on unpaid utility bills. Gasilov Group prices the status quo against a universal PIPP.

Energy & Grid Insights

Data center cooling towers releasing water vapor, showing how data center water usage occurs through evaporation | Gasilov Group

How much water does a data center use? The real answer spans 1,000x

Data center water usage explained: gallons per day and per MW, why ~80% evaporates, and how cooling design moves the number 1,000x. Analysis from Gasilov Group.

Water & Resources Insights