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3 GW Off PJM, Again: What NERC’s 2024 Investigation Already Told Us
More than 3 GW of data center load left the PJM system on July 22, 2026, after a single transmission fault. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) investigated the…
 
DOE Closes $3.26 Billion Transmission Loan to AEP Texas
The U.S. Department of Energy has closed a loan of up to $3.26 billion to AEP Texas to finance a portfolio of nearly 100 transmission projects, the agency's Office of…
Alarm Bells Are Sounding for the Grid: Answering Them Takes More Than Megawatts
When federal emergency powers become routine operating procedure, the system is not holding up. It is operating at its ceiling. And the customers who kept their lights on paid triple for the privilege, which means the event that operations survived is one that affordability did not.
World’s Largest Energy Lender Steers Federal Financing Toward Baseload, Transmission, and Nuclear
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) closed a loan of up to $3.26 billion to American Electric Power (AEP) Texas, the office’s third utility
 
The BESS Connection to the Grid—Ensuring Flexibility and Reliability
When designed to interface directly with a utility’s medium-voltage infrastructure, battery energy storage systems (BESS) must meet stringent performance, protection, and reliability requirements that extend
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FERC Orders All Six Regional Grid Operators to Justify or Rewrite Large-Load Tariffs
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has voted unanimously to issue tailored show-cause orders under Section 206 of the Federal Power Act to each of the six regional transmission organizations…
The New Large-Load Compact
Why AI Data Centers Can No Longer Be Treated as Passive Customers For decades, even very large electric customers fit inside a familiar planning model. A factory, refinery, industrial campus,…
Enabling Modern Grid Flexibility With Coordinated, Location-Specific Optimization
Integrate high-load data centers and renewable energy without compromising grid reliability. Grid reliability hinges on the flexibility identified, managed, and optimized by operational technology (OT). The
Viridi BESS Installed at Oak Ridge Lab as Part of Grid Technology Research
Battery storage developer Viridi has announced a strategic partnership with the Dept. of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee to support research into next-generation utility grid technologies that advance grid resilience and reliability.
Strategy Amid Uncertainty: Why Decisioning Maturity Is the Critical Differentiator in Today’s Power Markets
The pace of change in energy markets has never been faster. Price signals that once evolved over days now shift within settlement windows. Geopolitical shocks that once took weeks to…
Quantum Computing Is Emerging as a Tool for Tomorrow’s Electrical Grids
Artificial intelligence and high-performance computing have helped electrical utilities modernize how they model, forecast, and manage grid operations. These tools already play a central role in maintaining reliability, balancing supply…
AI Is Usually Cast as a Grid Burden. The Genesis Mission Is Betting It’s a Grid Tool.
The explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) computing is, for most utilities, a problem to be absorbed: gigawatts of new data-center demand arriving faster than transmission can be planned or built.…
Siemens Energy Will Shed the Siemens Name, Rebrand as Omterra
The Siemens name is coming off one of the power industry’s largest equipment and service suppliers. Siemens Energy announced July 14 that it has begun preparing the transition to an…
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