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Sponsored by KrakenA new kind of self-service: empowering utilities to shape their own tech
Utilities are taking control of their own tech. Discover how configurable platforms like Kraken let teams build, test, and innovate without coding bottlenecks.
Nov. 13, 2025 -
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Tribes, conservation groups urge FERC to uphold veto policy on preliminary hydro permits
The U.S. Department of Energy wants the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to stop giving tribes and federal agencies veto power over preliminary permit applications for projects on their land.
By Ethan Howland • Nov. 13, 2025 -
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Power demand is rising amid dramatic shifts in federal energy policy, but technology and markets continue to push the grid toward cleaner, more distributed resources.
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OpinionData centers can stack sustainability, energy innovations
Data center developers should seize opportunities to benefit communities and the environment, write a former Ohio member of Congress and a sixth-generation farmer.
By Tim Ryan and Shawn Cutter • Nov. 12, 2025 -
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St. Paul, Minnesota, and environmental groups sue over canceled DOE clean energy grants
The lawsuit claims the Trump administration’s cancellation of $7.56 billion in grants for projects in 16 states was politically motivated.
By Robyn Griggs Lawrence • Nov. 12, 2025 -
Xcel, Colorado agencies propose extending life of Comanche 2 coal unit
Xcel’s 750-MW, coal-fired Comanche 3 is offline until at least June, and Colorado peak demand forecasts are rising quickly.
By Robert Walton • Nov. 12, 2025 -
FERC dismisses cost allocation complaint over ‘self-planned’ AEP transmission projects
Kentucky Power is part of a broader transmission network of American Electric Power utilities and therefore benefits from those utilities’ local transmission projects, FERC said.
By Ethan Howland • Nov. 12, 2025 -
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Kansas, Michigan regulators approve large load rules for Evergy, Consumers Energy
The new rules, plus proposed legislation in Delaware, aim to ensure that existing utility customers don’t pay costs related to interconnecting data centers and manufacturers.
By Ethan Howland • Nov. 10, 2025 -
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OpinionOur laws must catch up to data centers’ rising power
Data center power demand could bring about a transformation in the U.S. energy system, or it could spike prices as polluting emissions rise, write energy scholars Alexandra Klass and Dave Owen.
By Alexandra Klass and Dave Owen • Nov. 7, 2025 -
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OpinionMaking flexibility work: A concrete framework for the DOE large load proposal
The proposal for interconnecting data centers to the grid calls for load flexibility but gives few details. Former FERC Commissioner Allison Clements and Miles Farmer and Sam Walsh of Roselle LLP fill in the blanks.
By Allison Clements, Miles Farmer and Sam Walsh • Nov. 6, 2025 -
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PSEG could offer lower rates to New Jersey’s incoming governor: equity analysts
Public Service Enterprise Group is ready to work with the new administration to keep rates down and find ways to add power supplies in the state, PSEG CEO Ralph LaRossa said.
By Ethan Howland • Nov. 6, 2025 -
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Exelon’s advanced data center pipeline grows to 18 GW
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor continues to call for a review of how a PECO Energy-Amazon data center agreement would affect power costs and reliability.
By Ethan Howland • Nov. 5, 2025 -
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SPP proposes landmark merger of transmission planning, interconnection processes
The “consolidated planning process” it proposed at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will make it easier to bring new power supplies online, the Southwest Power Pool said.
By Ethan Howland • Nov. 4, 2025 -
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OpinionData centers as engines of economic growth
Regulators should create pathways for utilities to test, scale and recover costs for forward-looking solutions that meet new economic demands, writes Jeff Jakubiak, a partner at Vinson & Elkins.
By Jeff Jakubiak • Oct. 31, 2025 -
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The week in 5 numbers: Rising power prices amid a utility ‘super-cycle’ spending spree
Plus the federal government makes moves on nuclear development and large load interconnection.
By Meris Lutz • Oct. 31, 2025 -
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OpinionA hydrogen ‘do-over’ for California
Getting hydrogen to work as an energy resource will require broadening the type of hydrogen we can live with, writes Melanie Davidson, former head of clean fuels strategy at San Diego Gas & Electric.
By Melanie Davidson • Oct. 30, 2025 -
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Deep DiveIn an era of rising rates, policies to strengthen power system flexibility can lower costs
The right policies can provide grid flexibility, which reduces demand-driven rate spikes and protects consumers while allowing utilities to build out the grid, experts say.
By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 29, 2025 -
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FERC rejects Tri-State’s large load tariff over retail jurisdiction issues
The decision comes as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is considering a U.S. Department of Energy proposal for interconnecting data centers and other large loads to the grid.
By Ethan Howland • Oct. 29, 2025 -
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US partners with Westinghouse, Cameco and Brookfield on $80B nuclear deployment
Westinghouse AP1000 reactors will be utilized in a national deployment that will create more than 100,000 construction jobs, the companies said.
By Robert Walton • Oct. 28, 2025 -
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OpinionMaryland should resist rewriting utility monopoly laws
The state should embrace competition, innovation and accountability from power distributors, generators and utility regulators, writes Adam Dubitsky, state director for the Land & Liberty Coalition of Maryland.
By Adam Dubitsky • Oct. 28, 2025 -
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Google-NextEra, Santee Cooper announcements signal new life for defunct nuclear projects
“Restarting a once fully operational plant is the fastest path to unlock large-scale nuclear power to meet AI growth in the near-term,” Google said Monday.
By Robert Walton • Oct. 28, 2025 -
Kentucky utility, AG challenge PJM’s regional cost allocation plan for DOE ‘emergency’ orders
Load-serving entities shouldn’t be required to pay for costs they didn’t cause, East Kentucky Power Cooperative and Kentucky’s attorney general told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
By Ethan Howland • Oct. 28, 2025 -
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OpinionWhat utilities need to get right to scale generative AI
To use artificial intelligence safely and at scale, utilities need to start with the right architecture, define a data strategy and build the right compliance foundations, write Vijay Narayan and Syama Sundar Peesapati of Cognizant.
By Vijay Narayan and Syama Sundar Peesapati • Oct. 27, 2025 -
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Residential electricity prices up more than 6% in August: EIA
Developers, analysts and policy professionals see growing cause for concern as costs rise.
By Meris Lutz • Oct. 27, 2025 -
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Surging load growth requires flexibility, new approaches: FERC’s See
“There's a pretty broad range, in my view, of what ‘just and reasonable’ can be, especially when we have new situations and urgency,” FERC Commissioner Lindsay See said.
By Ethan Howland • Oct. 27, 2025 -
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US electric utilities entering investment ‘super-cycle,’ says Morningstar DBRS
U.S. electric utilities will spend $1.4 trillion from 2025 to 2030, the firm said. They face challenges around data center demand forecasting, rising rates and regulatory lag.
By Robert Walton • Oct. 27, 2025
