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January 8, 2025

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CAISO
Data Centers Contribute to 60% Increase in San Jose Load Forecast
Data centers are contributing to significant load growth and project needs in Silicon Valley, according to CAISO representatives speaking at the kickoff meeting for the ISO’s 2024/25 transmission planning process. 
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Dominion CEO Says Virginia Well Poised to Meet Growing Demand
A growing economy driven by new data centers has demand surging in Dominion Energy’s utility territory, CEO Robert Blue said in a speech.
DOE
Constellation to Reopen, Rename Three Mile Island Unit 1

Constellation Energy plans to reopen Three Mile Island Unit 1 under a power purchase agreement with Microsoft to sell about 835 MW to serve the company’s data centers.

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PJM PC/TEAC Briefs: Sept. 12-13, 2024
The PJM PC voted to defer action on three proposals to rework the RTO’s process for transferring capacity interconnection rights from a deactivating generator to a new resource.
NYISO
NYISO Operating Committee Briefs: Sept. 12, 2024
The NYISO Operating Committee approved revisions to the 2024-01 Expedited Delivery Study, finding that all nine proposed projects are deliverable at their requested capacity resource interconnection service levels.
ICF
ICF Report Forecasts Significant Demand Growth This Decade
ICF International forecasts that demand could increase by 9% by 2028, while peak demand could increase by 5% over the same period, according to a report it published.
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Exec Details MISO’s Tight Spot Between Load Growth, Retirements, Unwieldy Queue
MISO's Todd Hillman described the pressure cooker environment of escalating data center demand, a precarious reliability situation and an overwhelmingly large interconnection queue at Infocast’s inaugural Midcontinent Clean Energy Summit.
Eversource
Demand Growth and Extreme Weather: The Grid’s New Normal
CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas and MISO's Todd Hillman joined a USEA webinar to discuss grid reliability amid increases in extreme weather and load growth.
H5 Data Centers
Data Centers Bringing ‘Massive’ Loads to Western Grid
Five years ago, load growth from transportation electrification was a major issue for policymakers, according to speakers at a webinar. Now the focus has shifted to data centers.
Exelon
Exelon Prepping for Major Load Growth in Utility Service Territories
Exelon is focused on meeting rising demand from data centers and manufacturing, company officials said during its second-quarter earnings call.

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