Current Events - The Electric Utility Today

New Jersey’s landmark Energy Affordability Package and a new FERC computational load rulemaking are fundamentally restructuring how hyperscale data centers connect to the grid and pay for capacity. Governor Cheryl’s...

Extreme thermal stress across the Eastern Interconnection has triggered unprecedented federal emergency interventions, including rare Department of Energy Section 202(c) environmental waivers and massive regional...

Severe physical infrastructure constraints are forcing the Department of Energy to deploy Section 202(c) emergency orders to keep retiring coal plants online just to manage summer resource adequacy. This briefing...

Federal regulators have upended the nation's interconnection framework by issuing coordinated Section 206 show cause orders to all six RTOs, effectively forcing grid operators to aggressively defend their existing data...

Severe grid stress is forcing regulators to actively bypass standard planning paradigms, evidenced by FERC authorizing a highly exclusive, expedited interconnection track (EIT) for PJM and the DOE invoking emergency...

An unprecedented 92.2-gigawatt summer peak demand forecast in ERCOT is violently colliding with severe physical capacity limits and unmodeled regulatory threats across the bulk power system. This briefing examines...

ERCOT is advancing a radical "Batch Zero" simultaneous study model to triage an unprecedented 360,000-megawatt interconnection queue overwhelmingly driven by speculative data center and industrial demand. This critical...

An unprecedented 360-gigawatt interconnection queue in ERCOT has collided with a rare NERC Level 3 Essential Action alert, forcing grid operators to fundamentally alter how hyperscale computational loads are managed. As...

An unprecedented NERC Level 3 Essential Action alert mandates that transmission operators immediately alter how gigawatt-scale computational loads are modeled for transient grid stability. This urgent compliance...

A mandatory NERC Level 3 Essential Actions alert will force transmission operators to fundamentally restructure how sudden, gigawatt-scale computational load drops are modeled for transient grid stability. This urgent...

A mandatory NERC Level 3 Essential Actions alert will force grid operators to fundamentally alter how gigawatt-scale computational loads are modeled for transient stability. This critical reliability mandate converges...

Federal regulators just dropped a historic $1.13 billion penalty on a decade-long capacity market fraud right as the grid braces for an unprecedented 367,790-megawatt explosion in demand. We unpack how this massive FERC...

Federal regulators have just ordered a destabilizing, retroactive $1.5 billion transmission refund that is wiping out utility market value exactly when the grid desperately needs fresh capital. We unpack how this...

The U.S. power grid is violently colliding with the digital economy as massive data center demand drives up PJM capacity costs by a staggering 262.3%. We unpack the fierce regulatory battle erupting as market monitors...

Unprecedented data center demand is stretching the US power grid to its absolute breaking point, triggering staggering retail rate spikes of up to 30.3% in the PJM footprint. As total tech capacity crosses 50 gigawatts...