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December 19, 2025

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Resources for the Future
Load Growth Requires Holistic Interconnection Reform, Experts Say
Holistic reform to interconnection barriers is essential to meeting rapidly growing power demand across the country, experts said at a recent webinar.
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SPP Stakeholders Trim $2.5B from 2025 Transmission Plan
SPP stakeholders have endorsed the RTO's 10-year transmission plan and some of its proposed 765-kV lines, trimming about $2.5 billion in costs from the portfolio.
RMI
Sharper Load Growth in Utility Integrated Resource Plans
As of September 2025, the IRPs are projecting demand will be 24% higher in 2035 than in 2023, RMI reported.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Brattle Group
LBNL Study Examines Drivers Behind Higher Power Prices in Some States
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released a paper recently examining why some states have seen retail power prices rise faster than inflation.
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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.

SPP
SPP Wants to Defer $7B in 765-kV Projects to 2026
SPP staff have reiterated their position to defer part of the RTO's planned 765-kV transmission overlay, setting aside about $7 billion in regional projects from its 2025 transmission assessment.
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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.
NYISO
NYISO Dogged by Uncertainty in Comprehensive Reliability Plan
NYISO’s draft 2025-2034 Comprehensive Reliability Plan shows a wide range of possible scenarios for resource adequacy in New York, with the most negative outlook showing a deficit of up to 10 GW by 2034.
Consumers Energy
Wright: DOE Working to Stop More Coal Plants from Retiring
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said his department is working with utilities around the country to keep more coal plants slated for retirement open to help meet rising demand from data centers and other new large loads.
ATC and ITC Midwest
Bipartisan Transmission Permitting Reform Bill Introduced in House
U.S. Reps. Scott Peters (D) and Andy Barr (R) introduced the SPEED and Reliability Act, which is meant to speed up the siting and permitting of transmission lines.

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