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The fate of two coal plants owned by AEP’s Appalachian Power is generating debate in a proceeding to approve the utility’s renewable portfolio standard plan at the Virginia State Corporation Commission.
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AEP executives say they're embracing large loads and have firm commitments for more than 15 GW of load coming from just data centers by 2030.
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FERC approved granting voting rights to a member of American Electric Power’s board of directors who was appointed by investment firm Icahn Group.
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ERCOT has named former American Electric Power executive Gilbert Hughes as its new vice president of public affairs, where he will coordinate communications and government affairs.
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Talen Energy’s deal to carve out capacity from its Susquehanna Nuclear Plant to serve a growing data center on its site drew protests at FERC from other parties who argued the deal and others like it could shift costs and threaten reliability.
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American Electric Power's Board of Directors selected industry insider Bill Fehrman as its president and CEO, effective Aug. 1.
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The PJM MRC endorsed a proposal to revise how capacity obligations for serving large load additions are calculated to limit capacity assignments to areas where the LLAs are forecast to actually interconnect.
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FERC found SPP’s tariff revisions laying out how it determines its planning reserve margin methodology only partly met the commission’s order on rehearing and directed an additional compliance filing.
Senate ENR Committee
Sen. Joe Manchin rebuffed Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's assertion that permitting reform was dead in the current Congress during an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on load growth from data centers.
AEP Transmission
American Electric Power says 10.5% growth year over year in data centers and other commercial load within its 11-state footprint can be attributed to prior investments in transmission infrastructure.
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