The Oregon Public Utility Commission questioned Portland General Electric’s proposals concerning grid infrastructure cost allocation for data centers, voicing concern that the utility risked prioritizing data centers over other customers.

State regulators in MISO asked FERC to let power industry stakeholders determine how to allocate the costs for an Indiana coal plant forced to stay online by the Trump administration’s Department of Energy.

MISO announced further delays in its generator interconnection queue for the cycles of projects that entered in 2022, 2023 and 2025.

The Bonneville Power Administration provided updates on the agency’s $5 billion in transmission projects as some stakeholders asked about sunsetting of tax credits and coordination efforts with other developers in the West.

NextEra Energy Resources brought 7.2 GW of new generation and storage into operation and added 13.5 GW to its backlog in 2025.

The Electricity Customers Alliance released a paper offering some potential ideas FERC could take up to ensure affordability in a era of major load growth.

Nevada regulators approved a construction permit for the SWIP-North transmission line, keeping the project on track for a 2028 operation date.

California’s two large offshore wind projects could be delayed by up to six years due to recent federal policy actions, a CPUC administrative law judge said.

Eversource Energy and National Grid introduced asset condition projects totaling about $110 million at the ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee.

Achieving Washington's and Oregon's goals of 80% clean/decarbonized energy by 2030 will be difficult because of the transmission access and construction realities, writes Randy Hardy.