PJM’s Independent Market Monitor warned the cost of wholesale power in the RTO will continue to rise with the rapid addition of data center load without enough capacity to serve it.

NERC's Reliability and Security Technical Committee approved multiple technical documents while preparing for a higher-profile role in the standards development process.

Although large loads are not new to California or the West, CAISO is formulating technical standards that address their potential boom over the coming years.

Gaming by different stakeholders can present regulators with biased forecasts, which would require special regulatory-staff expertise to uncover, warns energy consultant Kenneth W. Costello.

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.

“Massive change, massive challenges, massive opportunities,” SPP CEO Lanny Nickell said in kicking off the grid operator's second Energy Synergy Summit that focused on meeting data center growth.

MISO and SPP credited interregional collaboration with helping them win FERC's approval of their expedited study processes.

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.

ERCOT says the critical path for a successful Batch Zero NPRR relies on a series of approval votes in May before the changes go to the board in June.

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.