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Louisiana utility players described their pull-out-all-the-stops, gas-propelled campaign to attract data centers as another hyperscaler announced plans for a new artificial intelligence-training facility in the state.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
FERC Commissioner David LaCerte was back before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, just four months after being sworn in, for a hearing on his nomination for a full five-year term.
Bonneville Power Administration
The consequences of the Bonneville Power Administration’s decision to join SPP’s Markets+ could hit the Northwest sooner rather than later even though the agency has yet to formally join the market, a group of nonprofits suing it over the choice told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Fluence
Clean energy groups are calling for changes to ISO-NE’s surplus interconnection service rules to use capacity headroom and help some resources avoid lengthy cluster study processes.
DOE
Southern Co. will receive $26.5 billion in loans to support generation and transmission upgrades.
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Fluence
Clean energy groups are calling for changes to ISO-NE’s surplus interconnection service rules to use capacity headroom and help some resources avoid lengthy cluster study processes.
Arizona Public Service would save $110 million/year by joining CAISO's Extended Day-Ahead Market rather than SPP's Markets+, a new analysis found.
The Department of Energy ordered PJM and Constellation Energy to keep the 760-MW Eddystone Generating Station online through May 24.
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FERC
FERC declined to suggest any minimum interregional transfer capability requirements in a report to Congress.
Police and FBI investigators are trying to determine the motivation of a man who died during an apparent attempt to damage an electric substation in Nevada.
FERC accepted five new reliability standards setting requirements for model validation and data sharing for inverter-based resources.
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CEC
Solar and wind resources could generate up to 85% of California’s electricity by 2045, according to a report being drafted by the energy commission.
Dominion Energy updated analysts on its efforts to complete a major offshore wind project and to meet rising demand from data centers on its fourth-quarter earnings call.
The EIA released a report that said a record 86 GW of utility-scale capacity is projected to be added to the grid in 2026, which if true, would far outpace the 53 GW of capacity added in 2025.
