State Grid Resilience Funding Tracker

Haven Energy's $29/month home battery subscriptions in southeastern Massachusetts let residents access 15 kWh storage while the company monetizes...

Delaware's DNREC-Siemens Energy partnership under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law assesses grid modernization, reliability improvements, and demand...

No Funding Program Updates

• No explicit updates to state-level grid resilience funding programs analogous to IRA 40101(d) or VGRIP appeared in...

ATC's FERC complaint seeks to reverse MISO's award of eastern Wisconsin projects to Viridon, arguing competition delays critical grid upgrades for...

Illinois' new ComEd Scheduled Dispatch VPP program aggregates customer DERs like batteries to ease peak demand and improve affordability without major...

Xcel Energy is advancing multiple undergrounding projects in Boulder, including a line serving the wastewater treatment plant and 5.5 miles of...

The article highlights solar and storage policies in six states to meet rising demand and improve reliability, but contains no references to IRA...

Midwest utilities and a new Senate bill offer sharply different fixes for data center grid delays.

• Utility approach: Nine transmission firms seek...

Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed an executive order temporarily removing state incentives for new large-scale data centers under the Imagine...

• Investment surge from data centers hit $179bn in 2024, letting utilities embed climate resilience into overdue upgrades rather than treating them as...

No Relevant Program Updates

• No new state-level grid resilience funding programs analogous to IRA 40101(d) or VGRIP updates appear in today's...

Data centers are increasingly installing behind-the-meter natural gas turbines to bypass Dominion's seven-year grid connection wait times, allowing...

New Jersey's new governor directed the BPU to cut energy bills after 7.4% annual rate hikes, but the agency found states influence only about a...

ISO-NE is complying with FERC show-cause orders by proposing large loads must bring their own new generation and be excluded from system forecasts to...

The report urges strict beneficiary-pays frameworks that isolate hyper-scale data centre expansion costs from household rate bases, requiring...

• Virginia weighs $1.5B transmission rider hikes, debating direct assignment to data centers versus spreading costs to households
• Pennsylvania's PJM...

The guest column argues that curbing utility ROEs would raise borrowing costs and block equity financing for grid upgrades, ultimately increasing...

State Grid Modernization Studies

• New Jersey BPU Study Phase One: New Jersey Board of Public Utilities released the first phase of its...

The $325/MW-day cap on PJM’s 2028/2029 auction limited steeper wholesale cost spikes for Pennsylvania customers, yet a 6,831 MW reliability shortfall and data-center-driven demand growth point to sustained $220–$320 annual household bill increases.

The RETI Consortium, led by West Virginia University with partners including University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon, has secured up to $321...