A Colorado judge found gen-tie line eminent domain unavailable on a wind interconnection route. 550 feet of easement holds up 1,053 MW of built turbines.
DOE 2029 transformer efficiency requirements are uneven by kVA and phase. Single-phase and three-phase units take their biggest cuts in opposite ranges.
The TVA data center rate takes effect October 1 above 153 municipal and cooperative distributors that deliver 99% of the load it prices.
Georgia Power owes the PSC a public summary of its 3,200 MW OpenAI contract. The first data center utility contract disclosure tests what load is real.
Executive Order 14421 bars some foreign grid equipment transactions. Its bulk-power definition excludes local distribution. What is actually in scope.
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.
The ERCOT data center interconnection pause froze Batch Zero with hundreds of millions in deposits posted. ERCOT now says the study slips past April 2027.
All six grid operators filed large load resource adequacy reports on July 20. ISO-NE wants data centers to bring their own generation. Here is what each one answered.
Seven plants sit under rolling Section 202(c) must-run orders deferring retirement. The renewal dates are public, and the first one falls August 16.
DOE reopened the distribution transformer efficiency standards on national security grounds. The comment record says repeal is not the risk. The date is.
H.R. 9340 cleared committee 52-0 and names distribution upgrades, not just transmission. What the Ratepayer Protection Act requires and what it misses.
Federal transformer procurement in 2026 runs on domestic-sourcing rhetoric while the biggest federal rebuild imports its fleet. What the gap means for buyers.