IN Power’s April edition is now available, with the new issue asking a blunt question for the electrical and industrial energy market: can the grid keep up with demand that is becoming faster, more flexible, and more digitally exposed?
The answer running through the edition is less comfortable than a simple capacity problem. The pressure is no longer confined to whether enough generation exists. It is increasingly about whether networks, industrial sites, data centres, contractors, and energy users can coordinate power flows, control voltage, secure operational technology, and prove readiness in real operating conditions.
The issue opens with UK fusion strategy, European electrification, and local area energy planning, but its main editorial thread is the growing gap between demand and response. The grid automation section examines OT cybersecurity risks in a more decentralised energy system, before looking at the voltage instability, reactive power, protection, and visibility lessons exposed by the Iberian blackout.
Further features move that same problem closer to industrial sites. Nexans argues that the electric workforce will become a decisive constraint in grid delivery, while nPower Business Solutions sets out how demand flexibility can shift energy management from procurement exercise to operational discipline. Cressall Resistors looks at high-resistance grounding and neutral earthing resistors for grid-ready data centres, where connection reform is making predictable fault behaviour a commercial issue as well as an engineering one.
The issue also covers Schneider Electric’s autonomy research, making the point that AI-led industrial sites still depend on reliable switchboards, metering, protection, and asset data. Its Contractor Corner analysis closes on BS 7671 Amendment 4 and the skills squeeze facing electrical contractors.
Fast demand and slow response is a neat cover line. It is also a fairly accurate description of the industrial electrification problem now landing across the market.
Read the April 2026 edition of IN Power here.
