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.

PJM’s Andrew Gledhill presented a proposal to the Planning Committee to revise the installed reserve margin and forecast pool requirement for the third 2025/26 Incremental Auction.

The Operating Committee endorsed revisions to Manual 13: Emergency Operations to add protocols for PJM and transmission owners to monitor and coordinate necessary actions when wildfires may disrupt infrastructure.

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.

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 rapidly spreading brush fires that have devastated multiple communities around Los Angeles are not expected to affect California’s broader transmission grid, CAISO said.

The New York Power Authority has filed a petition with the Public Service Commission asking it to designate Clean Path NY as a Priority Transmission Project under the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act.

PJM heads into 2025 with several proposals before FERC seeking to rework its capacity market and generator interconnection queue, while stakeholders work on an expedited Quadrennial Review of the market and changes to resource accreditation.

NYISO’s early 2025 will likely be dominated by the Reliability Needs Assessment process again, but the year will also bring other issues.