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February 22, 2026

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OPSI Panels Discuss Data Center Load Growth

The challenges of meeting soaring forecasts of data center load growth dominated the Organization of PJM States Inc. (OPSI) Annual Meeting.

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PJM Drops Non-capacity Backed Load, Shifts Focus to Resource Queue, PRD
PJM has withdrawn its non-capacity backed load proposal, shifting the focus of its solution for rising large load additions to creating a parallel resource interconnection queue and reworking price-responsive demand.
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Overheard at GCPA’s 40th Annual Fall Conference
The Gulf Coast Power Association celebrated its 40th anniversary — and the Texas Public Utility Commission’s 50th — during its annual fall conference.
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Tri-State ‘BYOR’ Tariff Changes Target Large Loads
FERC approved Tri-State Generation and Transmission’s request to update a program designed to allow its member utilities more flexibility in how they procure power.
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FERC Focused on Load Forecasting Challenges, Chang and See Say
FERC Commissioners Judy Chang and Lindsay See endorsed a letter by Chair David Rosner on the sharing of best practices around load forecasting in light of growing demand driven by data centers.
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CPUC Judge Proposes Ordering 6 GW of New Resources as Tax Credits Fade
A California PUC judge has proposed the commission order an additional 6 GW of capacity for the state between 2029 and 2032 to get ahead of disappearing federal tax credits and loans for renewable energy resources.
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DOE Seeking Proposals for Power Generation, AI Data Centers
The U.S. Department of Energy is looking for developers that want to build artificial intelligence data centers — and the power generation to run them — on two nuclear sites.
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PJM MRC/MC Briefs: Sept. 25, 2025

PJM’s Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed a set of manual revisions to expand when a new resource could be granted provisional interconnection service to allow for early operation once it becomes capable of injecting a portion of its output while its network upgrades stillare under way.

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Power Play: Pragmatism, Adaptation and a Touch of Wishful Thinking at Climate Week NYC
New York, frenetic at the best of times, bordered on frantic when Climate Week coincided with the U.N. General Assembly meeting, writes Dej Knuckey.
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Christie Appointed Director of New William & Mary Energy Law Center
William & Mary Law School announced it has appointed former FERC Chair Mark Christie as the 2025 Lowance Fellow, a visiting professor of the practice of law and the founding director of the school’s new Center for Energy Law & Policy.

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