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    CenterPoint expands 10-year capital plan by $4B to handle load growth

    The Houston-based utility’s investment plan through 2035 stands at almost $71 billion, and the company is accelerating some investments to support growing customer demand.

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    Inside the resilience gap

    The 2026 State of Grid Resilience report puts data behind the pressures utility leaders face as they strengthen resilience while balancing affordability and performance.

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    PJM urges FERC to dismiss Mon Power ‘fishing expedition’ seeking to recoup $145M

    FirstEnergy’s Monongahela Power contends that the PJM Interconnection’s advanced scheduling of gas-fired power plants during Winter Storm Fern may have violated the grid operator’s rules.

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    Reliability standards for AI data centers, crypto miners move closer to adoption

    NERC’s Board of Trustees on Monday voted to adopt reliability standards for AI data centers and other computational loads. The proposed rules now go to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for approval.

    Updated Oct. 27, 2026
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    Opinion

    Capacity, clarity, cash and compliance: the 4 C’s of electric co-op funding success

    Compliance is where cooperative utilities tend to struggle the most, and the latest federal funding programs have introduced even tougher terms, writes Fedsprout CEO Aalap Shah.

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    CISA promises proactive critical infrastructure defense in new strategic plan

    Supply-chain security receives special attention in the plan, with CISA promising to “develop data-driven guidance and best practices” related to third-party dependencies. AI is mentioned only briefly.

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    Clean energy groups, states oppose MISO’s large load-generation study plan

    The grid operator’s proposed fast-track study process for large loads with generation lacks ratepayer protections and favors vertically integrated utilities over independent power producers, critics said.

    Updated Oct. 26, 2026
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    NextEra Energy secures $5.7B to support federal energy ‘hub’ projects

    The company remains on track to close a merger with Dominion Energy in the second half of 2027, despite political opposition in Virginia, NextEra officials said Wednesday.

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    Utilities turn to AI to manage rising power demand — from AI

    Applications include maintenance prioritization and demand forecasting, but AI outputs that are uneven, or those that can’t be audited, constrain broader deployment. “Most utilities could not reconstruct what an AI system read, what it did and why,” one expert told Utility Dive.

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    Wind turbine orders hit 2.8 GW in Q2 ahead of tax credit deadline: WoodMac

    Overall, “the U.S. wind industry remains on course to add 39 GW of onshore new-build capacity by 2030,” the report said.

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    DOJ moves to revoke offshore wind permits, potentially threatening Senate permitting bill

    Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., one of the senators sponsoring the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, said in a statement, “This is how you blow up a permitting deal.”

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    PG&E needs wildfire policy reform to manage tail risk, CEO says

    CEO Patti Poppe said the company’s credit rating “is a major issue that must be solved ... [legislative] inaction will continue to get increasingly expensive for our customers.”

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    Trump eschews tariffs for trade talks on wind turbine imports

    Following a Section 232 probe, the president tasked cabinet officials to engage in negotiations and report on their progress within 180 days.

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    Google supersizes PJM virtual power plant to more than 1 GW

    Such contracts signal a turning point for distributed resources in energy markets, industry sources say. Demand response revenue in PJM jumped 240% from 2024 to 2025, reaching $523.6 million; emergency demand response accounted for 88% of that.

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    Opinion

    Jigar Shah blames the wrong target for rising electricity bills

    With utility returns trending downward, the data does not support a national “utility greed” narrative, writes Guy Caruso, former administrator for the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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    Geothermal lease sale on federal land in Nevada nets $4.8M

    An Interior Department auction for roughly 187,000 acres generated less per acre than a similar sale in the same state in 2025. Leases for two parcels that sold overlap with the site of a proposed NextEra solar farm.

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    Summer-peaking states could save big with heat pumps, report says

    From 1980 to 2000, electricity demand rose while prices dropped. Heat pumps could help do that again, according to a report from RMI that estimates full deployment could reduce U.S. residential electric rates by 13% in summer-peaking states.

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    Solar PPA prices jump 5% in Q3, mainly on new trade tariffs: LevelTen

    Wind power purchase agreements held relatively steady in Q3 but could begin to rise again as the latest round of tariffs takes effect later this year.

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    Georgia electric cooperative plans 50-MW home battery deployment

    Central Georgia Electric Membership Corp. plans to use the batteries to reduce system peaks and energy costs as hyperscale data centers seek to connect to its grid.

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    Opinion

    The capacity market crisis is a design problem, not a verdict on competition

    PJM's capacity price spikes are a symptom of a market that drifted too far toward spot-price dependence, not an indication that competition itself does not work, write Atlantic Council experts.

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    Q&A

    LS Power COO sees sweeping power sector investing needs: gas, renewables, transmission and more

    “The demand growth we're experiencing today is real,” LS Power’s Darpan Kapadia said. “The supply side is going to take time to catch up, and the markets are screaming that.”

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    Grid equipment manufacturer ABB sees US orders rise 82%

    “Utilities continue to invest in refurbishment and build-out of the electrical grid to secure power availability and efficiency,” the company said Tuesday.

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    Virginia governor seeks 6-year rate freeze if Dominion-NextEra merger is approved

    Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D, also wants regulators to increase the debt share of Dominion’s capital structure from 48% to 60% to lower its rate of return. Separately, regulatory staff and the attorney general have proposed their own conditions for the deal.

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    Opinion

    12 actions to tackle energy affordability

    Modernizing the grid is a complex, multi-dimensional challenge; improving energy affordability is similarly complicated, writes Bryce Yonker, executive director of Grid Forward.

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    What Google’s virtual power plant in PJM says about the race for electricity

    Voltus CEO Dana Guernsey compared new “bring your own new capacity” contracts to the power purchase agreements that “revolutionized” utility-scale solar and wind development.

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    Schneider Electric sees record-high Q3 revenue on global data center boom

    North America continues to be the largest source of revenue for the company’s energy management segment, but China and East Asia saw a higher organic growth rate this quarter and year to date.