Columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler writes about the explosion of data center load requests and the enormous risks to utilities and ratepayers of overbuilding assets.

Columnist Steve Huntoon discusses the "apparently unintended irony" in the Trump administration's latest executive order on FERC.

Consultant Terry Brinker warns about potentially hundreds of facilities being included in NERC's IBR rules, where fines and penalties can be as high as $1 million a day per violation.

Columnist Steve Huntoon says environmentalists are engaging in a "game of chicken" with climate because they won't consider solar geoengineering, such as sand or salt in the stratosphere.

"Chicken Little" claims about power outages being caused by the transmission grid being overtaxed do not stand up to scrutiny, says columnist Steve Huntoon.

If data centers are connected to the grid they should contribute to the cost of the network infrastructure providing those services, Exelon Executive Colette Honorable said.

Columnist Steve Huntoon says every few years he returns to the subject of microgrids "to beseech everyone to please stop the insanity."

Energy consultant Kenneth W. Costello says state utility regulators in recent years have exhibited political posturing that deviates from their original mission.

Renewable resources generally are not dispatchable. Fusion is getting increasing attention as a possible salvation.