ERCOT's Technical Advisory Committee discussed the grid operator's approach to large loads, as staff said they are tracking over 200 GW in large-load interconnection requests.

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.

Representatives from NERC and the rest of the electric ecosystem joined FERC's annual Reliability Technical Conference to discuss the importance of planning in addressing large loads.

The North Carolina Utilities Commission spent several days diving into the issues of meeting new demand from large loads like data centers.

Data center-fueled demand growth continues to soar while reserve margins continue to shrink. Meanwhile, the timelines for building load versus building generation and transmission are wildly out of sync.

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) requested that Ameren explain whether residential ratepayers are picking up the tab for grid upgrades necessary to accommodate data centers and other large industrial customers.

FERC approved SPP’s tariff change to offer a provisional load interconnection process so the grid operator can study potential data centers and other large loads when there isn’t available power for the new facilities.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released a paper recently examining why some states have seen retail power prices rise faster than inflation.

PJM has withdrawn its non-capacity backed load proposal, shifting the focus of its solution for rising large load additions to creating a parallel resource interconnection queue and reworking price-responsive demand.