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March 9, 2026

Reliability

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NARUC Focuses on Large Loads’ Impact on Reliability and Affordability
NARUC’s Winter Policy Summit focused on the main issue facing the power industry — how to reliably and affordably interconnect new large load customers.
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SPP Demand Forecast, DR Policies Leave No One Happy
SPP's Board of Directors approved a framework for demand response and peak demand assessments despite opposition from members and stakeholders.
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NERC to OMS: Long-term Assessment not a Predictor of Risk
NERC officials appeared before an Organization of MISO States board meeting in an attempt to quell regulators’ discontent with MISO’s “high-risk” label in the 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment.
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Rapid Load Growth Focus of State Energy Officials Conference
The challenges and opportunities of meeting demand from new large loads like data centers took center stage at the National Association of State Energy Officials’ recent Energy Policy Conference.
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DOE Touts Fossil Fuels’ Role in Meeting Peak Energy Demand This Winter
DOE's senior leadership highlighted how the grid relies on fossil fuels to make it through winter peaks.
Yes Energy
Cleanview: Data Centers’ Speed-to-market Goals Lead to Inefficient Gas Generation
Cleanview released a report putting numbers to a trend where many hyperscale data center developers are building dirtier, more quickly available generation to cash in on the AI boom.
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FERC Oversight Hearing Focuses on Affordability and Reliability
All five FERC commissioners faced questions from the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy on how to balance reliability and affordability as demand grows.
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ACEG Transmission Planning Report Card Gives Higher Grades for RTO Reforms
Americans for a Clean Energy Grid released an updated version of its report card, which generally shows improved scores as regions have implemented changes in the last couple of years.
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NYISO Reliability Planning Under the Microscope
NYISO began what is expected to be a yearlong effort of revising its Reliability Planning Process at a Transmission Planning Advisory Subcommittee meeting.
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MISO Suggests Reliability Requirements, Partial Supply Deals to Handle Large Loads
MISO said it likely will create interconnection reliability requirements and explore new rules that could bring large customers online in stages, as capacity becomes available, to get a handle on large loads eyeing MISO locales.

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