New Jersey lawmakers pushed back on the state’s all-electricity, clean-energy strategy at a heated committee hearing, urging an all-the-above approach as PJM faced criticism for failing to foresee a dramatic hike in demand.

FERC Chair Mark Christie and Commissioner Judy Chang downplayed the current political environment’s impact on the agency, saying the commission’s role is to follow the law and ensure the fairness of procedures.

Attendees at the Electric Power Supply Association’s Competitive Power Summit discussed how markets are responding to rapid demand growth.

Regional initiatives aimed at increasing coordination and collaboration among power entities in the West are essential to tackle mounting technical and political challenges, panelists said during a discussion at the spring joint CREPC-WIRAB meeting.

A data center campus planned in western Pennsylvania would include up to 4.5 GW of on-site gas-fired generation and be the largest facility of its kind in the U.S., a group of developers announced.

Dominion Energy Virginia asked for its first base rate increase since 1992 in the face of inflation and load growth in its territory.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has suspended environmental laws to accelerate the undergrounding and hardening of utility equipment in communities ravaged by the Los Angeles wildfires.