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Eversource misclassified $385M transmission project to avoid scrutiny: ratepayer complaint
The complaint at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission comes amid growing concern about electric affordability and calls for stricter vetting of local transmission projects.
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Sponsored by KrakenModern billing systems put more power behind utility rates
Rate design can reduce grid costs, but first utilities need upgraded billing systems.
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California commission to make final decision on community solar rules
State regulators will vote on whether to finalize a proposed decision by an administrative judge rejecting changes to the Community Renewable Energy Program sought by solar advocates.
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US annual electricity consumption to grow 55% by 2050: NEMA
The group representing electrical equipment manufacturers expects data center energy consumption to grow 300% over the next 10 years.
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OpinionSecurity beyond CIP: When ‘low impact’ doesn’t mean low risk
Today’s power grid was built to handle an outage at a major facility. But there is a growing risk from many smaller resources failing at once, writes Anirban Ghosh at Black & Veatch.
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Q1 saw net loss of 5,900 renewable energy manufacturing jobs: EDF report
The Environmental Defense Fund cited $1.4 billion in canceled renewable energy investments stemming from federal policy shifts around renewable energy, electric vehicles, energy efficiency and tailpipe emissions.
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PJM may be ‘too big to function’: FERC Chairman Swett
Each of the 13 states in PJM, and the District of Columbia, have “fundamentally different regulatory structures, resource portfolios and politics,” FERC Chairman Laura Swett said. FERC will host a conference in July to identify potential reforms to PJM’s governance structure.
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2026 Q1 roundup: Utilities divided on data centers as affordability looms large
Physics, policy and politics are beginning to constrain some of the electric utility industry’s highest aspirations for data center-driven growth, Utility Dive learned in first quarter earnings calls.
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Fluence Energy signs master supply agreements with two ‘major’ hyperscalers
The agreements came earlier than expected and represented “significant progress” on the company’s “emerging data center thesis," said Jefferies analyst Julien Dumoulin-Smith.
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OpinionWhy is the US walking away from energy efficiency?
Policymakers should set strong energy efficiency standards and reinstate tax incentives for households and businesses to make upgrades, writes Ben Evans at the U.S. Green Building Council.
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Constellation Energy enters 5 GW of nuclear, gas, battery capacity in PJM queue
Some potential data center customers are pausing decision-making in the PJM Interconnection to see how the grid operator’s colocation and backstop auction rules shake out, company officials said.
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Con Edison to spend $29B shoring up NYC area grid as electrification rises
New York City and its suburbs are not seeing an influx of data centers like other parts of the country, but building and transportation electrification is driving gradual demand growth.
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SPP, PJM, CAISO anticipate being able to meet power demand this summer
The regions in each organization’s footprint are likely to see higher-than-average temperatures this summer, but supply is expected to reliably meet demand.
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OpinionMaking AI work for utilities means treating technology as a partner, not a replacement
In an era when reliability indices directly shape regulatory ratings, AI's predictive capability becomes a measurable operational asset, but only when people know how to use it, writes Sean Burri, a Dominion Energy infrastructure engineer.
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Q&AHyperscalers driving record clean energy deals: CEBA CEO
U.S. corporate clean energy procurement surpassed 27 gigawatts in 2025, with four companies accounting for about three-quarters of that capacity, Rich Powell, CEO of the newly rebranded Corporate Energy Buyers Association, said in an interview.
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PPL ‘advanced’ data center pipeline grows to 28.3 GW in Pennsylvania
A PPL-Blackstone joint venture is securing gas turbines for power plants that would serve data centers, company officials said.
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Vistra adds 4.5 GW of capacity in line with ‘reasonable’ forecasts for PJM, ERCOT
“While these views remain below many third-party forecasts and ISO projections, they reflect what we believe to be the pace of physical development,” Vistra CEO Jim Burke said of the company’s load growth projections.
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OpinionCompetitive power markets have delivered. Abandoning them would be a mistake.
Electricity markets are not perfect, but they remain one of the most powerful tools we have for delivering reliable, affordable power at scale, writes former FERC Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell.
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Deep DiveWill DOE’s ‘nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses’ solve the US nuclear waste problem?
The Department of Energy wants to collaborate with states that agree to take in and possibly recycle used nuclear fuel, and some have responded positively. But practical and policy challenges remain.
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Eversource CEO: ‘We are resisting data centers’
Data centers are of “no value to our residential customer — actually, any customer,” said Eversource Energy CEO Joe Nolan. “It's only going to drive up the price of energy.”
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Evergy expects retail sales to rise up to 8% annually on data center growth
In response, Evergy has increased its planned gas-fired generation in Missouri to 4.7 GW. Separately, it slashed its long-term renewable energy plans more than 90%.
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PJM floats options for capacity market overhaul
“The current situation is not tenable,” PJM President and CEO David Mills said. “The region has years, not decades, to make these choices deliberately.” The grid operator lays out three options, including shifting to an energy market model, in a white paper.
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Sunrun saw steep sales drop in Q1 with end of solar tax credit, tariffs
The company says it remains “the nation’s largest distributed power plant operator,” with about 4.3 GWh of networked storage capacity as of March 31 — a 50% increase year over year. It aims to have 10 GWh of dispatchable capacity by the end of 2028.
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OpinionWhy procurement has become a grid reliability issue: ULE Group
Critical grid work becomes harder for utilities to keep on budget when schedules are repeatedly disrupted by missing or delayed equipment, writes ULE Group President Danielle Pirrone.
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EDP Renewables and Meta ink PPA for 250-MW solar project
This is the third such deal between EDP Renewables and Meta, bringing the total procured energy between the two companies to 545 MW.
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Exelon lowers utility spending to ease electric affordability issues
Exelon is shifting its spending away from utility operations while boosting planned transmission expenditures, company officials said during an earnings call on Wednesday.
