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PJM Drops Non-capacity Backed Load, Shifts Focus to Resource Queue, PRD
PJM has withdrawn its non-capacity backed load proposal, shifting the focus of its solution for rising large load additions to creating a parallel resource interconnection queue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.
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Overheard at GCPA’s 40th Annual Fall Conference
The Gulf Coast Power Association celebrated its 40th anniversary — and the Texas Public Utility Commission’s 50th — during its annual fall conference.
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Tri-State ‘BYOR’ Tariff Changes Target Large Loads
FERC approved Tri-State Generation and Transmission’s request to update a program designed to allow its member utilities more flexibility in how they procure power.
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FERC Focused on Load Forecasting Challenges, Chang and See Say
FERC Commissioners Judy Chang and Lindsay See endorsed a letter by Chair David Rosner on the sharing of best practices around load forecasting in light of growing demand driven by data centers.
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DOE Seeking Proposals for Power Generation, AI Data Centers
The U.S. Department of Energy is looking for developers that want to build artificial intelligence data centers — and the power generation to run them — on two nuclear sites.
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PJM MRC/MC Briefs: Sept. 25, 2025

PJM’s Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed a set of manual revisions to expand when a new resource could be granted provisional interconnection service to allow for early operation once it becomes capable of injecting a portion of its output while its network upgrades stillare under way.

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Power Play: Pragmatism, Adaptation and a Touch of Wishful Thinking at Climate Week NYC
New York, frenetic at the best of times, bordered on frantic when Climate Week coincided with the U.N. General Assembly meeting, writes Dej Knuckey.
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Christie Appointed Director of New William & Mary Energy Law Center
William & Mary Law School announced it has appointed former FERC Chair Mark Christie as the 2025 Lowance Fellow, a visiting professor of the practice of law and the founding director of the school’s new Center for Energy Law & Policy.
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Data Centers ‘Exacerbating’ Tx Line Overload Forecasts in Bay Area
The construction of new data centers could lead to transmission line overloads in the Bay Area, CAISO forecasts show.
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Wright: DOE Working to Stop More Coal Plants from Retiring
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said his department is working with utilities around the country to keep more coal plants slated for retirement open to help meet rising demand from data centers and other new large loads.

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