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Attorney General Jeff Jackson Proposes Framework to Ensure Data Centers Pay Their Fair Share for Energy Costs
5+ hour, 22+ min ago (256+ words) AG Jackson’s case to protect ratepayers is ongoing. Attorney General Jackson argues that the creation of a new, specific rate class for data centers and other large energy users is an important first step to protect ratepayers, energy rates, and…...
Turkey Knob solar project extended through 2031
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1205+ words) Solar panels reflect off the sun’s rays along Turkey Knob Road west of Mount Jackson. MOUNT JACKSON — Mount Jackson gave the unfinished Turkey Knob solar project five more years Tuesday, approving an amended agreement that calls for Energix to make…...
New Georgia solar projects are scheduled to start operation by 2029
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (295+ words) ATLANTA — Georgia Power has received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission for 1,137 megawatts of new solar power purchase agreements. The regulatory approval covers seven utility-scale solar projects procured through the company’s CARES 2023 and CARES 2025 requests for proposals. The seven…...
PUC to examine data center impact on electric reliability, consumer costs
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (193+ words) HARRISBURG, DAUPHIN CO. (WOLF) — Pennsylvania utility regulators will examine how the rapid growth of data centers could affect electric-grid reliability and whether other customers could be left paying costs tied to the facilities’ enormous energy demand. The Pennsylvania Public Utility…...
PUC Addresses Data Center Impacts on Electric Reliability and Consumer Costs
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (344+ words) As rapid data center development adds significant new demand to the regional electric grid, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission took steps to examine Pennsylvania’s emergency load control procedures and the allocation of costs associated with large computational loads. By a…...
Why Giant Orange Spheres Hang From Power Lines…Meet the Aerial Marker Balls
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (148+ words) Most drivers clock them once from a freeway overpass and never ask again. Those bright spheres clamped to long spans of transmission line have a proper name, aerial marker balls, and a single assignment: make a nearly invisible wire obvious…...
Georgia power shutoffs cost more than AC, with spoiled food, lost work, and dangerous heat escalating
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (724+ words) A summer power outage in Georgia can disrupt far more than comfort. Without electricity, homes quickly become hotter, food can spoil, sleep gets harder, and remote work may no longer be possible. For some Georgia Power customers, that experience is…...
American Electric Power Raises Guidance Again: What 69 Gigawatts of New Demand Means
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (780+ words) sasirin pamai's Images and elijah.lovkoff's Images via Canva Estimate AEP’s fair value as its data center pipeline grows (It’s free) >>> American Electric Power (AEP) closed at $123 this week, down slightly, even as its underlying business keeps accelerating. The utility…...
Clean Energy group calls for more public scrutiny of data center energy costs
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (983+ words) A clean energy group is calling on the Iowa Utilities Commission and policymakers to ensure utility companies don't use data center energy demands to build new facilities and pass the costs on to ratepayers. Iowa Business for Clean Energy, in…...
Red states led 71% of new U.S. solar installs in first half of 2026
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (223+ words) According to a report released Thursday by the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie, states that went for President Donald Trump in the 2024 election represented 71% of the U.S. solar capacity installed in the first half of 2026 — even as the administration…...