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With days left in his administration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order aimed at siting and permitting cutting-edge artificial intelligence data centers on federal land by 2027.
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Virginia legislators introduced a series of bills they hope to pass in a short session this year aimed at addressing demand growth from data centers through cost allocation of utility rates, increased transparency in planning and tying tax incentives to efficiency requirements.
New York Governor's Office
Development of a greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-invest system first proposed two years ago is getting pushed further down the road in New York.
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Rather than expanding its network of light-duty hydrogen-fueling stations, California lost three stations last year, casting doubt on the state’s ability to meet a 200-station goal, a new report found.
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Citing a looming FERC deadline, NERC's Board of Trustees voted once again to sidestep the normal standards development process to accelerate development of the ERO's cold weather standard.
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ISO-NE is planning to decouple resource retirements from the capacity auction process and adopt a two-year notification timeline for retiring generators, the RTO told stakeholders at the NEPOOL Markets Committee.
Fire agencies are investigating whether Southern California Edison’s equipment ignited one of the fires currently ravaging Los Angeles, the utility said in a news release.
Duke is getting a new CEO as Lynn Good plans to step down this spring after more than a decade running the company. Longtime executive Harry Sideris has been named as her replacement.
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A recent NERC report discussed the potential reliability challenges associated with load loss from data centers.
NERC has submitted for FERC's approval two standards that would require balancing authorities to perform regular energy reliability assessments.
NERC is calling on grid operators to prepare for extreme winter weather predicted in the first weeks of January.
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California lawmakers may consider extending the state’s landmark cap-and-trade program, following a request from Gov. Gavin Newsom in his 2025/26 budget proposal.
The transmission companies behind a major project to preemptively build two offshore wind interconnection points in New England have submitted their first FERC filings for the project.
The grants represent the second round of funding from the IIJA’s $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure program.
