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Data Centers and the Grid: Key Insights from POWER’s Inaugural Data Center POWER eXchange Summit

Sonal Patel — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:59:27 +0000

POWER breaks down the top insights from Data Center POWER eXchange, its unique one-day summit curated by POWER’s editorial team and convened to examine the collision between accelerating data center load and tightening grid constraints. The rise of artificial intelligence is poised to create the fastest, largest, and most concentrated surge of electricity demand in […]

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Enverus Releases 2025 Interconnection Queue Outlook

Contributed Content — Tue, 06 May 2025 22:29:17 +0000

Enverus, an energy-dedicated, software-as-a-service company that leverages generative artificial intelligence across its solutions, has released its 2025 Interconnection Queue Outlook, a comprehensive collection of power generation and transmission projects that show requests to connect to the U.S. power grid.

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PJM Market Challenges Demand Bold Reforms, Experts Warn

Sonal Patel — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:33:17 +0000

Energy experts have called for bold reforms—from transmission planning to permitting streamlining and faster interconnection approvals—to prevent further volatility and ensure PJM Interconnection meets its reliability mandate without disproportionately burdening consumers. During a March 19 webinar hosted by Advanced Energy United—a trade group that advocates for policies supporting the transition to 100% clean energy—industry experts […]

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NYISO Announces Interconnection Enhancements and Improvements

Contributed Content — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:13:26 +0000

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) has launched a new interconnection process with significant improvements and enhancements, crucial for integrating a high volume of new generation facilities onto the grid. NYISO’s “Cluster Study” process and other improvements were developed in collaboration with stakeholders through the NYISO’s governance process in recent years. Collectively, these enhancements […]

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Action Needed Now to Support New Power Transmission Capacity

Contributed Content — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:23:59 +0000

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in its March 2024 open meeting made clear that successful energy transition requires immediate action. With the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as a benchmark, the U.S. will need to expand its electrical transmission capacity at an annual rate double that seen between 1978 and 2020, as reported by the […]

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What FERC Order 2023 Means for the Interconnection Queue

Ted Bloch-Rubin — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:17:47 +0000

In recent years, concerns about the lengthy interconnection queue have dominated headlines. This queue has emerged as a major obstacle to adding new generating facilities to the U.S. power grid. It is primarily caused by grid congestion, permitting issues, extensive infrastructure project delays, and the traditional interconnection study approaches used in many states. To address […]

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Three Steps to Modernize America’s Electric Grid and Unlock the Green Energy Economy

Contributed Content — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:11:48 +0000

America faces many energy-related challenges going forward, but none is more important than the need to modernize the U.S. electric grid—but right now the permitting process for building out and strengthening America’s power grid is not set up for success. Talk to just about anyone in the energy sector and you’ll hear about projects that […]

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FERC Approves MISO Interconnection Queue Reforms, Rejects Overall Queue Cap

Maxwell Multer — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:10:29 +0000

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Jan. 19 approved most of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s (MISO) proposed revisions to its Generator Interconnection Procedures (GIP) designed to reduce the submission and negative impacts of speculative interconnection requests. The changes apply prospectively, starting with the DPP-2023 queue cycle, which has not yet entered the Definitive Planning […]

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Interconnection Cost-Causer-Pays Model: Is It Fair or Antiquated in the Era of Grid Modernization

Janique Williams — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:53:31 +0000

The transition to green energy is often seen through two different lenses: a burden or an opportunity. Grid modernization refers to a comprehensive transformation of the traditional power grid to upgrade aging infrastructure to enhance reliability, resilience, efficiency, and sustainability of electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and consumption. A key element of grid modernization is designing […]

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Increased Demand Is Fueling Interconnection Process Changes

Contributed Content — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:00:22 +0000

Electrical system operators are seeing an increase in potential projects seeking to connect to the power grid. Ideally, this growth in application activity means that energy systems and networks will become

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