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April 3, 2026
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ERCOT Large Load Interconnection Queue Hits 410 GW
Proposed and actual large loads in Texas
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A slew of interconnection requests from large load customers submitted by Oncor Electric Delivery has pushed the ERCOT queue for interested data centers and crypto miners to over 410 GW.
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SPP's RTO area now sits in two interconnections.
SPP
SPP Successfully Completes Western RTO Expansion
SPP has become the first grid operator to manage markets in both the Eastern and Western interconnections with its formal expansion into the West.
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PJM control room
PJM
Monitor Warns Talen Acquisition Will Increase PJM Market Concentration
Talen Energy’s proposal to buy more than 2.5 GW of generation from Energy Capital Partners will lead to a more concentrated PJM market and greater market power for the fourth largest generator in the RTO, the Monitor said in comments filed with FERC.
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BPA's Bonneville Dam
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
BPA Explores Rate Alternatives Following Order to Increase Dam Spills
The Bonneville Power Administration could end up revising its rates to tackle the financial fallout of a federal judge in Oregon ordering increased spill levels at eight dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers.
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed a set of bills on March 31, which were passed by the legislature earlier in the year.
Office of the Governor of Virginia
Spanberger Highlights Affordability in Newly Enacted Laws
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the first set of bills of her tenure, including a number of energy provisions passed at the recent legislative session.
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The MISO Board of Directors in session March 26
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Regulators Past and Present Ask MISO for Public Findings on IMM Link to LRTP Complaint
A sitting state commissioner and two former regulators have asked MISO to publicly share any information it might gather on its Independent Market Monitor’s possible involvement in a five-state complaint against the RTO’s long-range transmission planning.
FERC Approves ISO-NE Prompt Capacity Market
FERC approved ISO-NE’s proposal to replace its Forward Capacity Market with a prompt market, cutting the time between auctions and commitment periods from more than three years to about one month.
Entergy Louisiana Says 7 More Gas Plants Necessary for Meta Data Center
Entergy announced a massive addition to Meta's Hyperion AI data center project in northeastern Louisiana and plans to add seven additional natural gas plants to deliver more than 5 GW to power the site.
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Georgia Power's headquarters in Atlanta
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Georgia Power to Pay $175K in NERC Penalties
FERC approved a settlement between Georgia Power and SERC Reliability that will see the utility pay $175,000 for violating NERC's reliability standards.
SERC Members/Board Meeting Briefs: March 25, 2026
Representatives of Florida Power & Light urged fellow SERC Reliability members to start using artificial intelligence tools, even in their own personal lives, warning that its use on the grid is spreading too rapidly to not understand how it works.
Report: Poor Voltage Control, Lack of Regs Drove Iberian Grid Collapse
ENTSO-E's final report on the Iberian Peninsula blackout of April 2025 lays out the root causes and chain of events that led to the collapse of the grid, providing critiques of the numerous points of failure.
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NYISO CEO Rich Dewey
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Generation Industry Calls for Repowering at IPPNY Conference
Generation industry representatives and their allies united behind a call to loosen New York’s climate law to allow the repowering of old fossil fuel plants with new natural gas turbines at the Independent Power Producers of New York’s 40th annual Spring Conference.
ISO-NE CLG Speakers Stress Grid Resilience amid Climate Damage
The spring quarterly meeting of the ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group revolved around the growing risks of climate-driven extreme weather events in Vermont and across the broader New England region.
PacifiCorp on Track to Meet Wash. 2030 Clean Energy Targets
PacifiCorp is preparing to bring online enough long-term clean energy resources to help the utility meet Washington's strict greenhouse gas targets by 2030.
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 A California DWR manager measures the snowpack level at Phillips Station on April 1. In an average year, snowpack is about five feet high at this location on April 1, measuring up to the second red line on the blue metal pole in the photo. But in 2026, there was nothing to measure — only grass.
California DWR
California Snowpack Near Record Lows as Summer Approaches
Despite a few large storms in January and February, California snowpack levels are near record lows due to a heat dome that settled over the state in March.
Utilities, Lawmakers Push for ‘Bold’ Leader to Guide BPA Through Tx Challenges
Utilities and lawmakers in the Northwest agree that the Bonneville Power Administration’s next administrator must focus on building transmission and take risks to make that happen.
Data Center Interest, Opposition on the Rise in New England
Increased interest in data center development in New England has led to growing concern about potential negative effects on energy affordability and long-term resource adequacy.
NRC Renews Diablo Canyon License for 20 Years
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a 20-year license renewal for the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, a nuclear facility seen as key to California grid reliability as the state transitions to clean energy.
A map LBNL produced showing how average power prices were up in 43 states and Washington, D.C., between 2024 and 2025.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LBNL Study Finds Power Prices Rose in 2025 Due to Multiple Factors
LBNL released an update to its retail price study, which showed power prices rose for most states between 2024 and 2025, after a half decade of mostly declining prices.
Vistra's Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, one of two nuclear facilities in Texas
Vistra
Texas Offers $350M in Grants for Advanced Nuclear Projects
Texas opened applications for $350 million in advanced nuclear grants through the Texas Advanced Nuclear Development Fund to support the state's nuclear energy industry.
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CIP Specialists Warn Compliance not Enough for Security
Speakers at a workshop hosted by Texas RE reminded attendees that compliance with NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection standards is not enough to ensure security.
NERC Pushes Back on GIC Complaint
NERC asked FERC to deny a request to mandate studies on the grid's vulnerability to electromagnetic pulses and solar storms, saying its current reliability standards are sufficient.
MISO: NERC to Dial Down RTO’s Risk Level; Members Create Large Load Working Group
In a case of déjà vu, MISO announced that NERC is poised to issue a follow-up to its Long-Term Reliability Assessment that stands to lower the RTO’s reliability vulnerability from “high risk” to “elevated.”
NERC: Cyber Event Reports Continued Decline in 2025
NERC told FERC it only received a single report of a qualifying cybersecurity incident under reliability standard CIP-008-6.
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FERC Approves Multiple Cyber Standards
FERC approved a slate of updates to NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection standards intended to improve grid security while enabling the use of new technologies.
NERC's Standards Committee held its monthly meeting in Juno Beach, Fla., on March 18.
NERC
NERC to Trial MSPPTF Recommendations in Large Loads Project
A new standards development project will be a testbed for some of the proposals by NERC's Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force.
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SPP's Coordination Center uses real-time and forward-looking weather data to manage grid operations.
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As Public Data Shrinks, Private Climate Models will Shape the Grid’s Future
At the very moment grid operators are being asked to plan for unprecedented complexity, the public data infrastructure that underpins those decisions is becoming less reliable, writes columnist Dej Knuckey.
Wash. Utilities Race to Break Ground Before Renewable Tax Credits Expire
Puget Sound Energy and Avista told the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission they have taken steps to build clean energy resources quickly to qualify for expiring federal tax credits, while voicing concern that limited transmission capacity and the state’s greenhouse gas targets pose challenges.
Interior Department to Reimburse Nearly $1B to Stop 2 Offshore Wind Projects
The Department of the Interior announced an agreement with TotalEnergies for the company to give up offshore wind leases.
Self-reinforcing Market Paralysis Seen in Nuclear Power Supply Chain
A new report by a nuclear advocacy organization lays out some of the obstacles facing the imagined U.S. nuclear renaissance and suggests ways to address them.
Craig Generating Station in Moffat County, Colo.
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Petitions Filed to Overturn DOE’s Craig Coal Plant Extension
Challenges are piling up to Trump administration orders to keep retiring coal plants online, as the Colorado attorney general and environmental groups have filed petitions to overturn an extension of Craig Station Unit 1.
Gowanus barge-mounted natural gas generating station in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Astoria Generating Company
AlphaGen Proposes Repowering Peakers to Meet NYC Reliability Need
Alpha Generation, owner and operator of the Gowanus and Narrows floating power plants in New York City, has proposed replacing the six peaking units with three lower-emitting ones in response to Consolidated Edison’s solicitation for solutions to the city’s reliability need.