Attendees at the gridCONNEXT conference, including the acting under secretary of energy and U.S. representatives, debated federal energy policy.

Reply comments to the Department of Energy’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to FERC on large loads offered differing paths for the commission to potentially take.

NextEra Energy’s annual investor event featured a goal to power 15 to 30 GW of data center hubs by 2035 and a series of nearer-term agreements in the technology sector.

FERC Commissioner David Rosner was supportive of the Department of Energy’s request that the commission assert authority over the interconnection of large loads while emphasizing the importance of collaboration and consensus-building in response to concerns raised by state regulators.

The power industry’s own demand forecasts expect national summer peak to swell by 166 GW by 2030, Grid Strategies said in its latest load growth report.

Arizona regulators approved a 286-MW energy supply agreement between Tucson Electric Power and the developer of an embattled data center project near Tucson.

MISO is considering a new type of interconnection agreement for generation built on site and strictly for new large loads.

The Independent Market Monitor filed a complaint asking FERC to determine that PJM has the authority to hold off on large load interconnections if they would jeopardize transmission security or resource adequacy.

FERC approved a transmission security agreement between PECO Energy and Amazon for a data center planned in Falls Township, Pa.

Many comments on the Department of Energy’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to FERC on large load interconnections warned against going too far into jurisdictional issues.