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Grid
FERC’s Winter Review Carries a Warning for the Data Center Buildout
The good news: the American power grid survived last winter’s Arctic cold without forcing utilities to cut customers off. The…
Data Centers
One Utility is Banking on a Mix of Nuclear Power, Data Centers and Big Money
Utilities used to be sleepy but steady investments that paid dividends and kept the lights on. One of them is…
Grid
‘Critical National Importance’: Firm once tied to Sam Altman seeks to fast-track secret, partial nuclear power project
The advanced-nuclear developer calls the project nationally important—but redacts the customer, location and facts that would explain why.
Grid
Your Grid May Have Found Its Next Power Plant: In Your Garage
The next power plant feeding your grid may not have a smokestack or a turbine hall. It may be hanging…
Grid
DOE Scraps Three Transmission Corridors as Power Demand Climbs
The Trump administration has ditched a series of new proposed power transmission corridors planned under his predecessor, alleging that they…
Grid
On Data Centers, Abbott Just Made a Mess in Texas
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent a short letter to the two officials who decide whether major power projects get built…
Grid
The Feds Keep Suspending Pollution Limits Across 14 States to Keep the Lights On
On July 26, Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed an order declaring a statutory emergency across the Southwest Power Pool, covering…