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| | State-led planning could advance clean energy in deregulated markets: report | |
Technologies like offshore wind and nuclear may need an additional push in states with a competitive electricity market, CATF’s report found.
“States are realizing that decarbonizing the power sector requires the addition of long lead time, development barrier-prone technologies, such as nuclear, geothermal, offshore wind, and long-duration energy storage,” the report said.
| Utilities, schools see growing value in electric buses for virtual power plants | |
In the summers of 2021 and 2022, a single electric school bus discharged about 10.8 MWh of electricity into the suburban Boston electric distribution grid to offset load peaks.
National Grid’s ConnectedSolutions virtual power plant program paid nearly $12,000 per season for its efforts.
| | Climavision offers expanded weather forecasting to data centers | | |
Utilities rely on weather predictions to anticipate demand for heating and cooling, operational capacity of generation and transmission resources, and potential threats to infrastructure from severe weather and natural disasters.
Now, as larger and larger data centers seek to connect to the grid, they are being asked to act more like utilities by managing their own generation, storage and demand response.
| | PJM faces 2030 reliability crisis if data center load growth continues: report | | |
PJM’s standard is designed to limit potential electricity shortages “to approximately one event every 10 years,” said a PUC release about the report.
In the study’s reference scenario, which relies on PJM’s 2026 load forecast, the modeled 2030 LOLE is 0.59, “or nearly six times worse than the PJM planning criterion,” it said.
| | ‘Second-life’ battery project is B2U’s second in ERCOT, with more on the way | | |
Like its first project in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas market, the Bexar Martinez installation has a rated power capacity around 10 MW, making it eligible for faster energization under ERCOT’s interconnection process for small generators.
Each project has more than 700 batteries previously used to power electric cars.
| | Equinor plans LNG expansion in early 2030s to meet European and Asian demand | | |
The Norwegian producer is expected to announce a second deal to supply LNG to an Asian customer this week, Ingvar Egeland, Equinor's vice president for LNG, told Reuters.
Equinor committed to a 15-year LNG supply deal with India's Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals Corp in May.
| | bp Whiting refinery says labor negotiations ongoing, operations unaffected | | |
Last week, bp had shared a video update, proposing "several pay-for-knowledge job progression models like those used at other bp refineries and within the refining industry."
The company said in a statement that discussions with United Steelworkers Local 7-1 were constructive and that the parties had agreed to meet again later this week.
| | URGING COOPERATION – TC Energy Urges Co-Operation on Growing Network to Meet ‘Generational’ Gas Demand | | |
The pipeline company that moves three quarters of Western Canada’s natural gas says it’s prepared to keep investing in its vast Alberta network to meet “generational demand” for the fuel.
TC Energy Corp. released its statement days after the leak of an Alberta cabinet report that raised concern over the Calgary company’s ability to serve the province’s nascent artificial intelligence data centre industry, oilsands projects and other sources of demand growth.
| | Texas Pumped Over a Quarter of All U.S. Natural Gas in 2025 | | |
U.S. gross natural gas withdrawals reached 47.7 trillion cubic feet in 2025, with a small group of states accounting for most of the total.
Much of this output comes from prolific shale formations such as the Permian, Marcellus, Haynesville, and Eagle Ford.
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