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Dominion upbeat on offshore wind as cost estimate eases, sales rise
CEO Robert Blue said the 2.6-GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind farm, which began producing some electricity in March, should be fully operational by 2027 and generate approximately $5 billion in fuel savings over 10 years. The utility’s fuel and other energy-related costs jumped 67% in Q1.
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ISO New England trims 10-year forecast based on electrification outlook
Annual electricity consumption will grow about 9% by 2035, reflecting “more conservative assumptions around future adoption of electric vehicles and heat pumps,” the grid operator said.
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OpinionThe AI electric grid calls for a mixed‑fleet transmission strategy
In the AI-era planning environment, hybridization is not a compromise — it is the engineering approach best aligned with real world system needs, timelines and locational realities, writes NYISO planning engineer Anees Jeddy.
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Southern Co. electricity sales soar on 42% data center growth
The company has 28 large load projects representing 11 GW under contract, and Georgia Power’s first-quarter capital expenditures increased year over year from $1.6 billion to $2 billion.
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New England transmission owners ask FERC for increased ROE
Eversource, Avangrid and other New England utilities seek an 11.39% return on equity weeks after FERC set it at 9.57%. Higher ROE is needed to attract capital given “current risk conditions,” such as the Iran war and supply chain constraints, they said.
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DTE sees up to 8.4 GW data center opportunity
The utility will supply a 1.4-GW Oracle data center under construction now, and it has submitted contracts to regulators for a 1-GW Google project also in the works.
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Offshore wind lease buyouts create troubling precedent, say former DOI officials
“You wouldn't want to create a situation where you are allowing companies, for instance, to buy up leases for anti-competitive purposes,” said former Bureau of Ocean Energy Management director Liz Klein.
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TransAlta seeks $19.9M for Centralia plant’s first DOE ‘emergency’ order
The plant didn’t produce electricity, but TransAlta spent money keeping it “available” instead of retiring it as planned. It will cost another $23 million to repair it, TransAlta told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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Without wildfire reform, California utilities could see credit impacts: Edison International
CEO Pedro Pizarro called for a return to the cost-of-service model for California's regulated utilities during a company earnings call.
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Senators vow to block permitting reform over Trump’s renewables obstruction
“There won’t be the votes unless we can have some assurance,” Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, told the Interior secretary. “And it would really help if you would move those permits that are sitting on your desk.”
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Meta deal adds to Entergy’s $57B, 4-year capital plan
Entergy’s 2026-2029 capital plan is more than 30% higher than what the company announced three months ago, and it has a pipeline of 7-12 GW of potential data center load.
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FirstEnergy opposes key part of PJM data center backstop procurement plan
The PJM Interconnection’s planned backstop auction is flawed, said CEO Brian Tierney. Separately, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said his administration will oppose rate hike requests that fail to meet affordability criteria.
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Wildfires weigh on PG&E as California sees modest large load demand
California must spread the word that it is “open for business,” CEO Patti Poppe said of recent interactions with data center developers. The California Energy Commission forecasts 1.8 GW of new data center load in CAISO by 2030.
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Octopus Energy, Lunar Energy roll out battery-enabled electricity plans in Texas
It’s the latest Texas program to offer customers a deeply discounted battery that provides grid support as well as home backup power.
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MISO capacity prices fall as new supply outpaces demand growth
Capacity offered in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s summer auction jumped 3.4%, to 141 GW from 136.3 GW a year ago, partly driven by solar additions.
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OpinionCongress should fix the nuclear investment tax credit
A bipartisan bill would restructure the credit to pass its full value on to ratepayers from day one, cutting the sticker price of new nuclear projects by 30% to 50%, writes Samuel Thernstrom at the Energy Innovation Reform Project.
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At 106 GW, gas-fired generation leads PJM’s newly reopened interconnection queue
After being effectively closed since 2022, the PJM Interconnection has launched the first cycle of its revamped interconnection queue process with more than 800 projects totaling 220 GW seeking to connect to the grid.
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CAISO expects ‘solid launch’ for EDAM, first Western day-ahead market
Mike Wilding of PacifiCorp, EDAM’s inaugural participant, told Utility Dive that 90 days of parallel operations in preparation for launch have given him confidence that “the market is working as intended and as designed.”
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TVA, Plus Power to deploy 200 MW/800 MWh BESS in Alabama
Crawfish Creek would be one of the first grid-scale battery projects in TVA territory and a significant down payment toward its board-approved plan to deploy up to 1.5 GW of energy storage by 2029.
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OpinionCapacity cost explosion: What PJM’s $80B bill means for the AI buildout
To avoid an era of grid instability, electric-sector stakeholders must fast-track replacement generation, deploy grid-enhancing technologies and pass permitting reform, writes EnerKnol’s Shahid Mahdi.
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Extended heat wave could cripple New York’s grid this summer: NYISO
Electric reliability margins will be “the lowest ... in recent history” at just 417 MW available under baseline summer conditions, the New York Independent System Operator said Friday.
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Industrial loads boost Consumers Energy’s sales as coal plant emergency order costs rise
At least one analyst on Tuesday’s earnings call raised concerns about Consumers’ regulatory strategy after DTE Energy said it may pause future rate hike requests if its current request is approved.
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2 more offshore wind projects scrapped under Trump administration pressure
The government said Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind have “agreed to voluntarily end their offshore wind leases.” EDP, a Portuguese company with stakes in both projects, said it has “agreed to settle imminent claims.”
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OpinionAmericans deserve facts, not fearmongering, about their electric bills
Policymakers must remove barriers to new infrastructure and allow competitive power markets to function properly, writes Todd Snitchler, CEO of the Electric Power Supply Association.
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Major critical infrastructure supplier reports cyberattack
Itron, which claims to have contracts with more than 7,700 utility providers in 100 countries, said it “has not observed any subsequent unauthorized activity within its corporate systems” nor unauthorized access to customer data.
