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A Concentric Energy Advisors report says data-center-scale demand can support grid upgrades, but warns that failing to assign costs properly could shift $120 billion to $169 billion onto other customers.

North America’s grid watchdog says summer reliability looks broadly solid, but rapid load growth and uncertain data center interconnection timing are complicating demand forecasting and raising risk in shoulder seasons.

Pennsylvania’s House has unanimously passed a bill that would require utilities to study advanced transmission technologies and could allow regulators to require their inclusion in approved projects.

One year after Spain’s nationwide outage, battery deployment, grid rules and system planning are shifting quickly as officials respond to vulnerabilities exposed by the event.

Federal data points to an 86-gigawatt year for new U.S. utility-scale capacity, with solar and battery storage making up nearly 80% of planned additions.

Large data center projects are increasingly stalling before construction begins, as power shortages, public resistance and proposed state restrictions collide with the industry’s rush toward gigawatt-scale development.

Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a bill that would have paused permits for new data centers until November 2027, rejecting what would have been the first statewide moratorium of its kind in the United 

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says it will act in June on reforms related to connecting data centers and other large loads to the transmission system, putting jurisdiction and cost allocation at the center of

A new policy fight is emerging over whether states or federal regulators should control the interconnection of giant new loads such as data centers.