On September 21, 2026, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an order halting all permits sought by data centers from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) until the Public Utility […]
On June 18, 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) issued six show cause orders directing each Regional Transmission Organization and Independent System Operator (RTO/ISO) under its jurisdiction to justify or revise its tariff provisions governing large-load interconnection and co-location arrangements. The orders represent the Commission’s most comprehensive effort to date to establish a regulatory framework for connecting data centers and other large loads while protecting grid reliability and existing customers from cost shifts.
On November 20, 2025, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) held its first monthly open meeting since the confirmation and swearing-in of Chairman Laura Swett and […]
On October 23, 2025, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to consider an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANOPR) to initiate rulemaking procedures to […]
A bipartisan group of governors of PJM Interconnection (PJM) member states has intensified calls for reforming PJM after what they have described as a “crisis of confidence,” citing high electricity prices, interconnection delays, and lack of transparency and state participation in the RTO’s decision-making processes.
On June 18, 2024, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy capacity, including by accelerating the […]
On April 7, 2023, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an Order Accepting Tariff Revisions Subject to Condition (183 FERC ¶ 61,009) approving a PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM) […]
On March 22, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Court) granted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Motion for Default Judgment and entered a default […]
On March 2, 2023, in a 3–1 decision, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected, without prejudice, Southwest Power Pool (SPP) proposal to adopt an Effective Load Carrying Capacity […]
On January 19, 2023, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a final rule (RM22-3) (the Rule) directing the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to develop and submit […]