Demand Response

NOVVA Data Centers
FERC Rejects Tri-State’s ‘High Impact Load Tariff’ Aimed at Data Centers
FERC rejected Tri-State Generation and Transmission’s proposed tariff to designed to manage the projected massive growth in data center load confronting its Mountain West member utilities over the next decade.
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Patton Calls on ERCOT to Operate its System Less Conservatively
ERCOT can ensure long-term reliability with its energy-only market, but it must operate its grid less conservatively for that to happen, said Potomac Economics President David Patton.
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Van Welie Discusses the Challenges Markets Face in New England
ISO NE CEO Gordon van Welie talked about the evolving grid in New England and how markets are changing and what the future holds as state policies drive higher demand and increasing decarbonization.
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Energy Secretary Asks FERC to Assert Jurisdiction over Large Load Interconnections
Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed FERC to start a rulemaking that will consider it claiming jurisdiction over the interconnection of large loads to speed up the buildout of AI data centers and reshored manufacturing.
NRDC
PJM Stakeholders Present CIFP Options for Meeting Rising Data Center Load
Several stakeholders presented proposals for how PJM could address accelerating load growth as the Critical Issue Fast Path process on large load growth wraps up its second phase.
Duke Energy
NCUC Examines the Challenges to Meeting Demand from Large Loads
The North Carolina Utilities Commission spent several days diving into the issues of meeting new demand from large loads like data centers.
CEC
Uncertain VPP Program in California Sets Capacity Record

A virtual power plant program with an indeterminate future set a record in 2025 for the capacity the plant contributed to California's electricity grid.

IESO
IESO Seeks to Expand Commercial DR

IESO hopes to curtail 100 MW of commercial HVAC load next year under a new program targeted at resources available during system peaks, but not for the full six-month commitment of the capacity market.

Compass Mining
MISO Tries to Clear Up Assortment of New DR Rules
MISO convened a stakeholder workshop to go over new requirements for demand response resources heading into the 2026/27 planning year.
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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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