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.

NYISO’s draft 2025-2034 Comprehensive Reliability Plan shows a wide range of possible scenarios for resource adequacy in New York, with the most negative outlook showing a deficit of up to 10 GW by 2034.

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.

U.S. Reps. Scott Peters (D) and Andy Barr (R) introduced the SPEED and Reliability Act, which is meant to speed up the siting and permitting of transmission lines.

FERC focused on large loads and clearing out older proceedings during its September meeting, with two of three current members saying they hoped to move a pending proceeding on co-located loads in the near future.

California energy officials are recognizing the need to work together to prioritize a long list of transmission and distribution interconnection projects as the state’s load growth accelerates due to expected data center development.

Exelon's CEO said on an earnings call that the company remains interested in the possibility of utility-owned generation.

The pace of load growth has picked up across Eversource Energy’s service territories in the Northeast, the company said during its second-quarter earnings call.

With data centers contributing to surging load growth, a new report suggests that more Western utilities should adopt clean transition tariffs or even make the tariffs mandatory for certain large customers.