A new industry coalition calling itself Utilize has begun a campaign to make electricity less expensive and quicker to connect by unlocking underused grid capacity.

MISO announced a third, 8-GW cycle of generation projects to enter its fast-tracked interconnection process, its largest cluster yet.

InfraPartners and Emerald AI's new partnership aims to embed flexibility from the start in data centers, which can make the facilities work much more smoothly with the power grid.

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PJM has updated its thinking on the design of its reliability backstop procurement to meet rising data center load, gravitating toward a model in which the RTO would determine the amount of capacity to be purchased and act as the administrator and counterparty to the resulting agreements.

Figures in the energy industry are casting doubt on the White House’s proposal to shield ratepayers from the costs of interconnecting large loads, saying it ignores the jurisdictional responsibility between regulatory authorities.

Grid Strategies wrote that NERC's Long-Term Reliability Assessment did not consider some factors that could address potential energy shortfalls.

A new report argues for an infrastructure fund to entice data center developers to commit to modernizing the grid as they invest in upgrades required by their new demand.