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NERC president warns of ‘five-alarm fire’ for grid reliability

The issue of data centers — and how to ensure they can be safely added to the grid — was a key focus of a FERC grid reliability conference on October 21st. Officials stressed the need to speed up studies, permitting, and infrastructure development to meet soaring power demand, with Commissioner Rosner noting the grid …

Get a load of this: PJM doubles growth forecasts (again)

PJM Interconnection, the grid operator managing the power market and regional transmission planning for all or parts of 13 states in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, has once again doubled its annual load growth forecasts, citing “large, unanticipated” changes caused largely by the influx of data centers. …