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Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative and Base Power are expanding a distributed battery partnership that aims to provide 50 MW of capacity across South Texas, helping the utility manage load peaks and wholesale price.

Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities are assessing a 266-MW pumped storage project in southeast Kentucky as AI, manufacturing and industrial load growth renew interest in long-duration storage.

A new complaint at FERC is challenging competitive bidding for regional transmission projects in MISO and SPP, setting up a consequential fight over cost, timing, and who gets to build the next wave of high-voltage lines

Eversource and Avangrid are asking federal regulators to stay a decision that would require roughly $1.5 billion in refunds tied to New England transmission charges dating back to 2011.

A new analysis from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and The Brattle Group says recent utility filings and approvals point to additional near-term retail electricity price increases.

A growing share of new data center capacity is being built to operate partially or fully off the utility grid, creating stranded cost risks and major planning headaches for electric utilities nationwide.

Edison Electric Institute reports investor-owned utilities are working to interconnect 39 gigawatts of new data center and manufacturing load — a grid challenge with no modern precedent.

Major utilities are pouring billions into infrastructure for AI-driven data center demand, but analysts warn that a market correction could leave them stranded with unused capacity and collapsed tariff agreements.