The nation’s electric grid is stressed out. Unprecedented energy demands for large customers, such as data centers and cryptomines, are straining power supplies, raising electric rates in some regions, and stoking consumer advocates’ concerns that residential ratepayers could get stuck with the bill. Today federal energy regulators issued sweeping orders that require the nation’s six […]

Wyoming’s largest utility today began participating in a new “Extended Day Ahead Market” for electricity on the Western grid, a potentially landmark shift in the way energy is sold in the state that could lower rates as energy costs soar. The new market, which went live Friday, gives Rocky Mountain Power, a subsidiary of PacifiCorp, […]

Wind farms are a matter of national security and part of the solution in the event of an attack on Latvia’s energy infrastructure, former European Union (EU) Energy Commissioner and current Latvian representative in the support group for Ukraine’s EU accession, Andris Piebalgs, told the LETA news agency. “The lack of wind farms is not […]

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Estonia, citing security concerns, has ordered the cancellation of the sale of a power grid management building to a Russian citizen, writes ERR News. The Estonian Consumer Protection and Technical Supervision Office (TTJA) has ordered the cancellation of the sale of the Viru Power Grid Control Center building after concluding that the deal threatens the […]

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A month after the state’s grid operator said it would pull together data centers and other large load projects that have been waiting to connect to the grid into a group called “batch zero,” that process is still at least four months away. Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) officials said this week that they […]