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Deep DiveData centers are ready to negotiate flexibility for speed
Hyperscalers want their data centers online and utilities want to provide interconnections, but experts say both are still looking for common operating guidelines.
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Sponsored by SEW.AIWhy energy and utilities are moving from ‘systems’ mindset to a ‘connected platform ecosystems’ mindset powered by Vertical AI
How leading providers are connecting customer, workforce and grid operations into one Vertical AI ecosystem.
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Virginia defines agrivoltaics, expanding opportunities for solar
Agrivoltaic projects must “ensure flexibility for farmers to adapt to market conditions and support operational needs,” according to the law.
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Utilities are not spending enough on low-income household efficiency: ACEEE
Energy efficiency becomes more important as prices rise because it is “one of the only direct levers” a household has to reduce its bills, said Anna Johnson, senior policy manager at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
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445 GW — mainly solar, storage — to come online by 2030 as demand growth surges: ICF
PJM and ERCOT have no spare capacity for demand growth beyond 2027, the consulting firm said. Demand response and GETs can help meet an expected 39% jump in U.S. electric use by 2035, it suggests.
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Deep DiveDOE emergency orders are incurring additional costs. What are the benefits?
Some of the generating units have operated during tight grid conditions and may have contributed to reliability. Keeping them running costs about $550 million a year, the Sierra Club says.
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Texas landowners seek pause in $2B, 765-kV transmission line case over notice concerns
The Permian Basin power line request says property owners were not properly notified after route changes. The build-out is tied to growing ERCOT grid needs.
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OpinionThe grid operates in seconds, but financial settlement still moves in months
Big Tech is allocating hundreds of billions of dollars for data center expansions; creating reporting frameworks for energy flexibility is the next step, writes Andrii Garanin at Silicon Foundation.
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Deployable reserves shrinking as coal, gas forced outage rates rise: NERC
Coal and gas generation saw a respective 39.8 TWh and 19.1 TWh increase in unavailable energy in 2025, said the North American Electric Reliability Corp.
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California to sue Trump administration over offshore wind buybacks
The lease cancellations “are causing ongoing harm” to California, which has “invested more than $100 million to support the development of wind energy,” the state’s attorney general said.
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DOE offers $17.5B in loans to help build 10 large nuclear reactors
Dominion Energy, DTE Energy, WEC Energy Group, Public Service Enterprise Group and Entergy Corp. are among the utilities positioned to benefit, according to Capstone.
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OpinionA month into EDAM, the data already shows two very different grids
The new Western day-ahead market is starting to show where resource mixes, operating constraints and carbon policies create fundamentally different economic outcomes.
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UN secretary general urges AI giants to disclose environmental impact
António Guterres called on artificial intelligence companies to commit to powering every data center with renewable energy by 2030.
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3 home energy providers offer 16.8 GW of distributed capacity to utilities, hyperscalers
An executive for Sunrun said active “distributed power plant” programs like one in Puerto Rico underscore the resource’s potential.
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GETs, demand response can ease near-term data center electricity price pressure: report
Data centers could use up to 15% of all U.S. electricity by 2030, up from 5% in 2024, Berkeley Lab researchers said in a separate analysis.
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Grid operators making ‘significant progress’ on generator interconnection reform: AEU
However, there isn’t yet evidence that interconnection requests are being processed more quickly, according to Advanced Energy United.
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Platte River, EnergyHub partner to deploy 39-MW Colorado VPP
Platte River Power Authority plans to achieve 19 MW from customer-owned distributed resources by 2030, with the first virtual power plant programs launching this summer.
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Deep DivePower plants under DOE emergency orders are producing way less energy than before
The Department of Energy ordered six power plants to delay their retirements last year. Two of them produced zero electricity in the first quarter in 2026, and another one is now offline for repairs.
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TVA considers up to 26 GW of gas-fired generation
Load growth in the Tennessee Valley Authority region is already outpacing the reference case forecast that was in its draft integrated resource plan, the federal utility said.
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K-12 schools can soften energy-cost hikes with performance contracts, Ameresco chief says
The contracts offer a way for school districts to lock in costs as electricity prices rise, says Louis Maltezos, co-president of the energy infrastructure company.
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Frontier Climate adds Anthropic to buyers group, makes new financing pledge
The company behind AI tool Claude joins the carbon removal purchasing group, which also announced $915 million in new financing commitments.
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US sees record Q1 2026 energy storage installations amid rosy outlook
Relative certainty around tax policy and demand from large load customers are among factors driving the country’s energy storage boom, according to two reports out this month.
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6 takeaways from FERC’s data center interconnection decision
If RTOs fail to address large-load concerns identified by FERC, the agency will dictate the solutions, per FERC’s David LaCerte. “I say this not as a threat, but as a statement of duty,” he said.
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OpinionThe AI race will be won or lost on power infrastructure
If the harder AI constraint turns out to be infrastructure performance rather than generation, the power sector may be looking for the bottleneck in the wrong place, writes TerraFlow Energy CMO Amanda Simonian.
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Texas, facing 438 GW queue, approves initial large-load interconnection process
The first projects to navigate the process will be called “Batch Zero." The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says its large-load queue is almost 90% data centers.
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Maryland lawmakers back data center transmission cost complaint at FERC
The PJM Interconnection improperly makes ratepayers pay for data center-driven transmission projects that don’t benefit them, according to Maryland's ratepayer advocate.
