A federal judge in Oregon ordered increased spill levels at eight dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in order to protect endangered salmon species, rejecting claims that doing so would impede power generation.

MISO’s and SPP’s CEOs are confident their interconnection queues will be up to the task of meeting new data center load once their respective special expedited lanes wind down.

FERC declined to suggest any minimum interregional transfer capability requirements in a report to Congress.

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.

ERCOT staff have promised more clarity on the link between the initial batch study process for large loads and the subsequent studies and existing planning structure during an upcoming workshop.

NYISO is proposing to use a set of multiple scenarios rather than relying on a single base case in its Reliability Planning Process to avoid study-by-study fluctuations in determining reliability needs.

FERC approved four transmission security agreements between Exelon’s Commonwealth Edison and new data center customers in Illinois, laying out conditions for their transmission service.

Data centers’ demand and speed-to-power prerogatives continue to dominate discussions in the electric industry, but some commonsense policy answers are starting to emerge, FERC Commissioners Judy Chang and David Rosner said.

Demand flexibility among data centers could reduce the need for new gas-fired generation needed to supply their energy consumption while driving development of additional renewables and cutting electricity prices, according to a Duke University report.

Advanced conductor manufacturer CTC Global is working with Google Cloud and Tapestry to launch the GridVista System, which combines conductors with fiberoptic cables to offer operators visibility along the entire transmission line.