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December 6, 2025

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Demand Growth’s Impact on Markets Probed at Nodal Trader Conference
Panelists at S&P Global’s Nodal Trader Conference discussed the impact of demand growth and uncertain load forecasts on markets.
NOVVA Data Centers
FERC Rejects Tri-State’s ‘High Impact Load Tariff’ Aimed at Data Centers
FERC rejected Tri-State Generation and Transmission’s proposed tariff to designed to manage the projected massive growth in data center load confronting its Mountain West member utilities over the next decade.
NextEra Energy
NextEra, Google Announce Nuclear Collaboration

NextEra Energy plans to restart the 50-year-old Iowa nuclear power plant it shut down in 2020 and sell some of its output to Google for data center operations.

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MISO Advisory Committee Switches Leadership After Freeman Exit
MISO’s Advisory Committee will continue to be led by its vice chair through the end of 2025 after the departure of Sarah Freeman from Indiana’s regulatory agency.
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PJM MRC/MC Briefs: Oct. 23, 2025

PJM’s Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed by acclamation a proposal to use only cost-based offers for resources committed in advance of the day-ahead energy market.

Convergent Energy and Power
Storage Projects Dominate ISO-NE Transitional Cluster Study
ISO-NE’s first interconnection cluster study held under new Order 2023 rules is made up mostly of large battery resources and contains only five wind and solar projects.
South Carolina Governor's Nuclear Advisory Council
Brookfield Nearing Deal for Unfinished S.C. Nuclear Reactors
Santee Cooper is entering final negotiations with Brookfield Asset Management over two partially built nuclear reactors left in limbo for the past eight years.
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Patton Calls on ERCOT to Operate its System Less Conservatively
ERCOT can ensure long-term reliability with its energy-only market, but it must operate its grid less conservatively for that to happen, said Potomac Economics President David Patton.
DOE
Options for Clean Dispatchable Power Each Have Caveats

All seven clean energy technologies evaluated for a new report might someday help New York reach its decarbonization goals, but each would require innovation and support to reach that potential.

BWXT Advanced Technologies
Counterflow: Beam Me Up, Scotty
The U.S. Army’s new next-generation nuclear power program is wasteful, counterproductive and dangerous, says columnist Steve Huntoon.

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