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September 2, 2026 8 min read

TVA Data Center Rate Lands Oct 1 on 153 Distributors

The TVA data center rate takes effect October 1 above 153 municipal and cooperative distributors that deliver 99% of the load it prices.

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August 16, 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.

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August 12, 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.

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August 3, 2026 6 min read

Cooperative Utility Data Center Load Meets a 936 MW Fleet

A cooperative utility data center load of 1.8 GW is landing on a G&T that owns 936 MW. What Kentucky's public dockets show muni and co-op buyers.

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July 31, 2026 7 min read

IONATE Hybrid Transformer: When to Qualify a New Supplier

IONATE and GM are collaborating to deploy hybrid transformer units at a Michigan plant. A qualification framework for new transformer suppliers.

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July 29, 2026 9 min read

DOE Reopens the 2024 Transformer Efficiency Rule

DOE reopened the distribution transformer efficiency standards on national security grounds. The comment record says repeal is not the risk. The date is.

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July 21, 2026 7 min read

Transformer Bushing Lead Times Now Exceed the Transformer

A DOE-funded federal lab report puts transformer bushing lead times at up to 130 weeks, longer than the tank they bolt into. The spec clause that shortens them.

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June 27, 2026 6 min read

SPP Western Interconnection Expansion: The Procurement Read

SPP's Western Interconnection expansion put nine co-ops, munis, and WAPA on one grid. Here is what the RTO buildout means for equipment procurement.

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June 26, 2026 6 min read

The Co-op Grid Hardening Playbook: Six Resilience Moves

A Missouri co-op's six-move grid hardening playbook: the equipment a hardening cooperative buys, in order, as it takes on transmission ownership.

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June 25, 2026 6 min read

Grid Modernization Roadmap: Reliability First

A grid modernization roadmap that sequences monitoring, switching, and flexible resources so utilities upgrade aging systems without losing reliability.

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March 29, 2026 10 min read

BABA Compliance for Transformer Procurement: Which Manufacturers Are Certified?

No centralized list of BABA-compliant transformer manufacturers exists. Here is what procurement teams need to know about domestic content rules, manufacturer certification, and the waiver process.

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March 27, 2026 4 min read

The $1.9 Billion SPARK Deadline Is April 2: What Utility Procurement Teams Need to Know

DOE just released $1.9 billion in SPARK grid funding. Concept papers are due April 2, 2026. Here is what municipal utilities and co-ops need to know about equipment procurement.

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