PJM Clarifies How Data Centers Could Pay More for Supply
The PJM Interconnection responded within hours on January 16 to conform with many of the requests made by the Trump Administration and state governors to change capacity…
News Stories: Data Centers
February 2, 2026
January 16, 2026
PJM Board Outline a Series of Actions To Address Data Centers & Large Loads Onto Grid; Orders Emergency Backstop Generation Procurement Process & Other Long Term Corrective Actions
In a press release PJM outlines plans to integrate large loads reliably. “The PJM Board of Managers today outlined a series of actions to be taken by PJM and its…
January 15, 2026
President Trump & PJM State Governors Seek One-time Emergency Auction
As reported by Utility Dive the Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors on Friday asked the country’s largest wholesale electricity market to hold a…
December 22, 2025
Extensive Comments Filed In Interconnection For Large Load Customers
A large number of comments were filed in the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission’s inquiry into interconnection related issues for large load customers including…
December 18, 2025
Vice Chair Seeks Revisions To Interconnection Rules
In a motion offered by PUC Vice Chair Kimberly Barrow directs the Pennsylvania PUC’s Law Bureau, in consultation with the Bureau of Technical Utility Services, to…
FERC Directs Nation’s Largest Grid Operator To Create New Rules To Embrace Innovation And Protect Consumers
In a news fact sheet, FERC announces that it has directed PJM to create new transparent rules “to facilitate service of AI-driven data centers and other large loads…
November 25, 2025
PUC Approves Creation of New Rate Class For Large Loads
In a press release the Virginia’s State Corporation Commission announced that it had approved a new rate class GS-5 that will comprise customers demanding 25 megawatts…
October 31, 2025
Parties File Reply Comments In Large Load Forecasting Rulemaking
In Texas in the PUC’s rulemaking to establish large load forecasting criteria the proposed rule would define LLCs as single sites with aggregate loads of 10MW or…
September 3, 2025
Utility Proposes Amendments Re: Data Center And High Load Customers
As reported previously, Consumers filed a petition requesting the Michigan Public Service Commission approve proposed amendments to its Rate GPD that apply to high-load…
September 2, 2025
New Data Center Bill Would Mitigate Utility Cost Shifts To Other Customers
SB57 bill would permit CPUC to assess the extent to which utility costs associated with new data center loads are shifted to other customers and opportunities to prevent…
