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August 26, 2026 9 min read

Owner Furnished Equipment Procurement Risk Starts Earlier

Owner furnished equipment procurement risk now lands before the design is finished. What a limited notice to proceed commits, and what it does not.

owner furnished equipmentEPC contractinglimited notice to proceed

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August 25, 2026 7 min read

Wildfire Mitigation Federal Land Permitting: 1 in 3 Late

Wildfire mitigation federal land permitting misses its own 120-day target on nearly a third of Forest Service requests. What that does to a pole order.

wildfire mitigationfederal land permittingvegetation management

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August 22, 2026 8 min read

USDA Will Forgive 40% of These Rural Utility Loans. The Match Cannot Be Borrowed.

The USDA rural utility loan program 2026 forgives up to 40% of a loan. Letters of interest are rolling from September 8, and the match cannot be debt.

USDARUScooperatives

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August 17, 2026 11 min read

How to Write Or Equal Specification Language

Or equal specification language decides whether you get three bids or one. What a performance spec has to state, and the review process that keeps equal honest.

procurement strategyspecificationscompetitive bidding

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August 16, 2026 3 min read

CAISO DER Settlement Proposal: Customer Exports, Aggregation Limits

CAISO’s July DDEMI draft permits measurement of authorized customer exports while retaining an aggregation-level limit. What that means for utility planning.

DERCAISOmetering

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August 15, 2026 8 min read

Data Center Load Pipeline vs Contracted: How to Discount It

Utility data center load pipeline vs contracted figures were counted differently by each utility in Q2 2026. How to discount a large-load GW number.

data centerslarge loadinterconnection

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August 13, 2026 7 min read

What Public Grid Data Can't Tell You About Interconnection

GridSolver scores 66,000 neighborhoods on DER value. It is the best free public grid data yet, and it cannot tell you whether you can interconnect.

DERgrid datahosting capacity

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August 12, 2026 5 min read

ERCOT Batch Zero: Verify the Project, Deposit Terms and Next Gate

ERCOT verification, Texas permitting and the adopted large-load rule have separate milestones. Check the project category before forecasting orders or refunds.

ERCOTTexasdata centers

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August 10, 2026 7 min read

The Distributed Data Center Lands on a Service Transformer

Sunrun's distributed data center pilot puts compute nodes behind residential meters. The company says commercialization is 2027 or 2028. The planning question is nearer.

data centersdistributed energyvirtual power plants

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August 9, 2026 2 min read

Large Load Resource Adequacy: What Six RTOs Told FERC

Six regional proceedings examine large-load service and resource adequacy. Separate proposals from effective tariffs and project requirements.

FERCdata centerslarge load

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August 8, 2026 4 min read

Section 202(c) Plant Orders: Dates, Dispatch and Procurement Evidence

Updated DOE plant-order dates and the Campbell court decision show why an emergency order alone does not establish an equipment purchase.

Section 202(c)DOE emergency ordermust-run

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August 5, 2026 6 min read

Equipment Production Slot Reservation Replaces the Order

GE Vernova signed 18 GW of slot reservations against 2 GW of orders last quarter. What the equipment production slot reservation means for utility buyers.

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Owner Furnished Equipment Procurement Risk Starts Earlier

Wildfire Mitigation Federal Land Permitting: 1 in 3 Late

USDA Will Forgive 40% of These Rural Utility Loans. The Match Cannot Be Borrowed.

How to Write Or Equal Specification Language

CAISO DER Settlement Proposal: Customer Exports, Aggregation Limits

Data Center Load Pipeline vs Contracted: How to Discount It

What Public Grid Data Can't Tell You About Interconnection

ERCOT Batch Zero: Verify the Project, Deposit Terms and Next Gate

The Distributed Data Center Lands on a Service Transformer

Large Load Resource Adequacy: What Six RTOs Told FERC

Section 202(c) Plant Orders: Dates, Dispatch and Procurement Evidence

Equipment Production Slot Reservation Replaces the Order