The Grid Vision Story: A Plan to Add 800 Gigawatts

Filmed at the OpenMinds 2026 Grid Vision Summit (OM26) at Stanford University, this short video captures the launch of Grid Vision with partners Stanford and Bain & Company. Grid Vision is a set of solutions designed to help address the Dual Challenge, built around adding 800 gigawatts of capacity to the U.S. grid by optimizing the grid we have while building the grid we need.

Key points

• Speakers describe an integrated plan with six critical elements to upgrade the U.S. electricity grid for reliable, affordable power.
• Interconnection across seams of the grid is named as one of the most important steps to add capacity and support growth.
• Speakers argue the grid can be built out quickly and at scale, putting downward pressure on prices while improving reliability.
• The coalition behind it draws on business, philanthropy, environmental groups and government, and invites policymakers, investors and utility leaders to get involved.