Yes Energy
A slew of interconnection requests from large load customers submitted by Oncor Electric Delivery has pushed the ERCOT queue for interested data centers and crypto miners to over 410 GW.
SPP
SPP says it has successfully become the first grid operator to manage markets in both the Eastern and Western interconnections with its formal expansion into the West.
PJM
Talen Energy’s proposal to buy more than 2.5 GW of generation from Energy Capital Partners will lead to a more concentrated PJM market and greater market power for the fourth largest generator in the RTO, the Monitor said in comments filed with FERC.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The Bonneville Power Administration could end up revising its rates to tackle the financial fallout of a federal judge in Oregon ordering increased spill levels at eight dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers.
Office of the Governor of Virginia
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the first set of bills of her tenure, including a number of energy provisions passed at the recent legislative session.
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A sitting state commissioner and two former regulators have asked MISO to publicly share any information it might gather on its Independent Market Monitor’s possible involvement in a five-state complaint against the RTO’s long-range transmission planning.
FERC approved ISO-NE’s proposal to replace its Forward Capacity Market with a prompt market, cutting the time between auctions and commitment periods from more than three years to about one month.
Entergy announced a massive addition to Meta's Hyperion AI data center project in northeastern Louisiana and plans to add seven additional natural gas plants to deliver more than 5 GW to power the site.
ERO Insider
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FERC approved a settlement between Georgia Power and SERC Reliability that will see the utility pay $175,000 for violating NERC's reliability standards.
Representatives of Florida Power & Light urged fellow SERC Reliability members to start using artificial intelligence tools, even in their own personal lives, warning that its use on the grid is spreading too rapidly to not understand how it works.
ENTSO-E's final report on the Iberian Peninsula blackout of April 2025 lays out the root causes and chain of events that led to the collapse of the grid, providing critiques of the numerous points of failure.
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Generation industry representatives and their allies united behind a call to loosen New York’s climate law to allow the repowering of old fossil fuel plants with new natural gas turbines at the Independent Power Producers of New York’s 40th annual Spring Conference.
The spring quarterly meeting of the ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group revolved around the growing risks of climate-driven extreme weather events in Vermont and across the broader New England region.
PacifiCorp is preparing to bring online enough long-term clean energy resources to help the utility meet Washington's strict greenhouse gas targets by 2030.
