Tom Kleckner

Xcel Energy says a data center agreement with Google in the Upper Midwest will provide a model for large load development.

ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee members endorsed a pair of items that are a priority of the grid operator's Board of Directors.

AEP says it is reviewing membership in PJM and SPP over their speed to power in connecting load and generation to their grids.

SPP and its stakeholders are stepping up efforts to improve the process of evaluating and approving competitive transmission projects.

SPP is forecasting challenging conditions this summer but says it has enough available generation to meet demand.

Texas regulators are developing a rulemaking that will replace ERCOT’s 4CP mechanism with a 12CP methodology measured in 30-minute intervals.

ERCOT stakeholders are “at the end of the rope” in determining how they will vote on two revision requests regarding Batch Zero.

ERCOT stakeholders unanimously advanced two revision requests to the Board of Directors that will guide the implementation of the transitional cluster study, or Batch Zero, of interconnection requests for large loads.

FERC has rejected rehearing requests and sustained an order accepting SPP’s tariff revisions to establish subregions for the cost allocation of future byway projects under its highway/byway methodology.

The Texas Reliability Entity said the ERCOT region should have enough reserves to meet expected peak conditions this summer.