Edison International / ThinkLabs AI
Artificial intelligence will replace most traditional utility planning and operational processes within a decade, says Josh Wong, CEO of ThinkLabs AI.
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PJM is forming a task force to explore how new data centers can be required to curtail if they interconnect before there is sufficient capacity and transmission capability.
AdminMonitor
Texas regulators are launching a survey of water use by data centers and crypto miners to address concerns about whether the state is prepared for the potential demand from the large loads’ H2O needs.
Bonneville Power Administration
Republicans in the U.S. House introduced a bill to increase the salary for the head of the Bonneville Power Administration in an attempt to make the position more competitive and attractive as the agency searches for its next leader.
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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.
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IESO
IESO’s Long Lead-Time procurement may be delayed beyond its planned April launch because the ISO still is awaiting a directive from the Ministry of Energy and Mines.
IESO’s plan to change the initialization logic for non-quick-start resources left some stakeholders wondering why.
The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee is finalizing role specifications for the initial board members of the Regional Organization for Western Energy as it prepares to evaluate candidates.
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FPL
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.
In a case of déjà vu, MISO announced that NERC is poised to issue a follow-up to its Long-Term Reliability Assessment that stands to lower the RTO’s reliability vulnerability from “high risk” to “elevated.”
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IPPNY / Tim Raab
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.
