With days left in his administration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order aimed at siting and permitting cutting-edge artificial intelligence data centers on federal land by 2027.

LS Power closed on its deal to buy Algonquin Power's renewable business, adding thousands of megawatts around North America along with a deep development pipeline of clean energy projects.

PJM heads into 2025 with several proposals before FERC seeking to rework its capacity market and generator interconnection queue, while stakeholders work on an expedited Quadrennial Review of the market and changes to resource accreditation.

New Jersey in 2025 faces the added uncertainty of a likely contentious governor’s race to replace clean energy champion Gov. Phil Murphy and his release of a new energy master plan.

The data center dilemma centers first on a familiar mismatch of timescales. Utilities and their regulators tend to plan based on the small, incremental demand growth. But development and the power demand it generates move at ever-increasing digital speed.

Vistra is extending the life of its coal-fired Baldwin Power Plant in Illinois through 2027 amid MISO delivering warnings over a supply crunch in its footprint.

CAISO kicked off a new Storage Design and Modeling Initiative intended to tackle an array of challenges related to the growing market participation of storage resources.

CAISO's Department of Market Monitoring reported that the ISO saw “one of the highest demand peaks” in recent years in 2024.