Here are four key takeaways. Data centers have broken Texas'' power grid planning State power grid operators at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas need to know about new businesses
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Cars drive past data centers that house computer servers and hardware required to support modern internet use, such as artificial intelligence, in Ashburn, Virginia, July 16, 2023.
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FERC tees up June decision on data center interconnection reform Other open meeting takeaways: Chairman Swett is “perplexed” on PJM backstop
FERC issued this order 1 as regional grid operators under its jurisdiction face substantial demand for power driven largely by hyperscale data
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As data centers jostle to get on Texas'' grid, ERCOT promises new rules for planning ERCOT is making a first attempt at a planning process in which multiple requests will be considered
As data centers go off-grid, utilities face new cost and planning risks Industry disclosures suggest that by the end of the decade, a meaningful share
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Federal regulatory response The federal government is moving to standardize these processes, with a critical decision point in 2026. For companies planning data center deployments in
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High-density data center loads are reshaping utility planning, grid modeling, protection engineering, and operational decision-making. Utilities are
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The electricity sector is experiencing a surge in speculative interconnection requests for data centers, stemming from a fragmented and opaque load interconnection process.
State regulators, lawmakers and ratepayer advocates voiced alarm over the department''s interconnection proposal, while the Data Center Coalition
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PJM stakeholders overwhelmingly pan proposal for data center interconnection Amazon and others urged PJM to drop the proposal and instead
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Developers can bring large data centers online in about 2-3 years, while transmission and generation planning, permitting, and construction often take a decade or more.
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