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Big, power-ready facilities drive industrial real estate market
Companies are looking for modern facilities that can accommodate power-hungry automation, industrial experts said in a report first provided to Facilities Dive.
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Sponsored by Burns & McDonnellRising load growth reshapes cooperative portfolios and strategy
Large loads pose additional challenges for cooperatives. Planning strategically is critical.
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Constellation’s Three Mile Island nuclear restart gets boost with FERC waiver
Constellation Energy will be able to transfer capacity interconnection rights, enabling the nuclear unit to potentially deliver all its power when it restarts, possibly before the end of 2027.
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DOE orders OUC’s 465-MW coal unit in Florida to continue running
Although Florida is at “normal risk” for long-term energy adequacy, the unit near Orlando needs to remain online partly to help serve potential data centers in the state, the department said.
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Fervo Energy faces transmission constraints in the West, analysts say
“Management has highlighted [transmission constraints] as a risk factor ... citing behind-the-meter as a potential solution,” said Jefferies equity analyst Julien Dumoulin-Smith.
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Protesters target NV Energy at electric utility conference as anger over affordability rises
“In Las Vegas, one of the fastest warming cities in the country, you cannot live without electricity,” said protest organizer Leslie Vega, who said she’s lost loved ones to heatstroke.
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MISO’s resource outlook improves as forecast generation additions outpace demand growth
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator is expected to have growing capacity surpluses over the next five years, according to the OMS-MISO survey.
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Colorado co-op delivers 100% renewables in March, a first
Holy Cross Energy CEO Bryan Hannegan said the utility plans to expand its programs for smart electrification and demand flexibility, and selectively add new flexible renewable resources.
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Electric sector needs firm gas supply to protect grid reliability, gas industry report says
The report, prepared for the Natural Gas Council, applauded reforms introduced following Winter Storm Uri in 2021 but said better coordination between the gas and electric sectors is still needed.
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OpinionSpeed to power requires more transmission, not less competition
A complaint at FERC seeking to limit competition among transmission developers would inject uncertainty into the process and spur regulatory delays, writes Will Hazelip from National Grid Ventures US.
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Google to fund 100-MW virtual power plant in PJM in ‘first-of-its-kind’ deal
Google has worked to make its data centers flexible, the company’s global head of data center energy told Utility Dive, but it’s often faster and more cost effective to pay other customers to shift their electricity usage.
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Eversource project ‘epitomizes’ flawed transmission reviews: New England states
New England “severely lacks” oversight of asset condition projects like Eversource Energy’s X-178 transmission project, the New England States Committee on Electricity told FERC.
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7 states sue Trump administration over TotalEnergies offshore wind lease buyout
The lawsuit calls the deal a “sham settlement agreement to unlawfully cancel an offshore wind lease and redirect the money paid for the lease to a separate, unauthorized use favored by the President.”
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DTE Energy partners with LG to deploy 6 GWh of battery storage
By 2042, DTE expects to have more than 2.9 GW of energy storage on its system, more than doubling its current storage capacity.
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Customer experience, better modeling can boost demand-side portfolio: report
The Brattle Group’s report lays out a framework for increasing demand-side resources to mitigate the impacts of load growth, variable renewables and distributed electrification.
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What’s on the mind of EEI conference attendees? Labor, AI, affordability and more.
Utility Dive talked to registrants before the conference to hear how industry changes are impacting their work.
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Massachusetts ‘vehicle-to-everything’ demonstration hints at EV batteries’ grid potential
Certain light-duty vehicles have the potential to earn around $3,000 per summer, and school buses $12,000, by enrolling in the state’s virtual power plant, a state program manager said.
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SEC proposes rule rescinding Biden-era climate risk disclosures
The agency’s proposal calls the 2024 climate disclosure rules “a dramatic overreach of the Commission’s statutory authority and, independently, unsound as a matter of policy.”
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DOE issues guidance ending gas-to-electric appliance rebates
The Department of Energy will instead allow rebates for “upgrading HVAC and appliances only from existing electric equipment to more efficient electric equipment.”
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OpinionWhat does it take to restore a nuclear power plant?
Restarting previously closed nuclear plants could be one of the most cost-effective ways to supply large amounts of firm, clean electricity, writes Patrick White at Clean Air Task Force.
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Data centers can raise temperatures, energy burdens in nearby neighborhoods: ASU study
Each one-degree increase in temperature will drive a higher use of air conditioning, which in turn will put more heat into the area, creating “a feedback loop,” researchers concluded.
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Large-load customers can help commercialize new clean energy technology: CEBA
“In a lot of the partnerships that have been established around some of these technologies, it's really the tech companies that are taking on a lot of the risk,” Priya Barua, CEBA's senior director of utility partnerships and innovation, told Utility Dive.
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PJM monitor urges FERC to condition Mara power plant buy for data center complex
FERC should only approve the $1.5 billion deal if Mara agrees to keep the Long Ridge power plant in the PJM Interconnection, Monitoring Analytics said.
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Load growth can help modernize grid, but cost-shift risks are significant: Concentric
On-site generation can be an interim solution as projects await full grid interconnection, but “widespread reliance on off‑grid systems is not a durable path forward,” Concentric said in a new report.
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OpinionAccess to real-time electricity data should be a basic consumer right
The technology exists and the infrastructure is there. What is missing is a requirement that customers have access to data on their electricity use, writes Joel Hicks at the University of Oregon.
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Philadelphia clean energy campaign turned millions invested into billions saved. Here’s how.
By blending public and private financing, green banking and a coalition of labor, housing and community partners, the city generated 11,000 jobs and $1.4 billion in energy savings — with minimal federal dollars, an economic impact report found.
