CAISO’s draft 2025/26 transmission plan proposes more than $1 billion for an infrastructure project that would power new data centers and other large loads in Silicon Valley.

A proposal by Amazon Web Services to build a major data center next to a nuclear plant in Maryland has sparked scrutiny from local officials and the state ratepayer representative over the potential impact.

Data centers are a hot topic for Arizona state officials, as the Arizona Corporation Commission has scheduled a workshop on the subject and the governor’s office has released a task force report with six data-center-related recommendations.

Energy policy and regulatory news in 2026 has been all data centers, all the time. We want to hear your take on large load tariffs and other related news.

Increased interest in data center development in New England has led to growing concern about potential negative effects on energy affordability and long-term resource adequacy.

LBNL released an update to its retail price study, which showed power prices rose for most states between 2024 and 2025, after a half decade of mostly declining prices.

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.

SEPA released an update to a database it created to track large load tariffs, which are spreading faster as large load customers proliferate.

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.

The Michigan Public Service Commission unanimously rejected requests from Attorney General Dana Nessel to reassess DTE Energy’s arrangement to provide 1.4 GW to Oracle and OpenAI’s Stargate data center plans south of Ann Arbor.