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How utility and tech firms 'educate' regulators with big donations, secret retreats
While consumers object to high energy costs and data center development, utility and tech companies are sponsoring events for friendly regulators.
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Facing an estimated 474 GW of interconnection requests, Texas hits pause on data centers
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called for an audit of all data centers in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas interconnection queue, leading the grid operator to delay its Batch Zero review process.
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Power plants under DOE emergency orders are producing way less energy than before
The Department of Energy ordered six power plants to delay their retirements last year. Two of them produced zero electricity in the first quarter in 2026, and another one is now offline for repairs.
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DOJ intervenes on behalf of xAI in data center gas turbine lawsuit
The Department of Defense said the xAI data center powered by the gas plant is critical to national security, revealing Grok was used to fire thousands of missiles in the Iran war.
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PJM gets emergency approval to curtail data centers, large loads during hot weather
Under the Department of Energy order, the PJM Interconnection can curtail power to data centers with backup generation as a last resort before instituting rolling blackouts.
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NERC is 'actively monitoring the grid' following Iran-linked cyber threat
Hackers have disrupted critical U.S. infrastructure by targeting programmable logic controllers, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned.
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Virginia legislature passes balcony solar bill
The bill allows Virginia residents to plug in a
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Coal plant owners say DOE 'emergency' order to run it violates Constitution
By mandating the generator's availability to operate, the order
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Senate bill exempts fully isolated large loads from FERC, DOE regulation
The bill affecting data centers and other energy-intensive sectors may face opposition from utilities who see it as a threat to their revenue, according to one industry expert who called it
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FERC urged to reject AEP waiver request for PJM capacity sale
It appears American Electric Power's utilities want to offload capacity they acquired to serve data centers that didn't materialize, Monitoring Analytics and the PJM Power Providers Group said.
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