Paxton's Data Center Plan Ties Grid Concerns to Texas Senate Race
Ken Paxton's four-point plan to restrict data centers—barring Chinese tech, adding criminal liability for AI risks, blocking rural builds, and...

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Ken Paxton's four-point plan to restrict data centers—barring Chinese tech, adding criminal liability for AI risks, blocking rural builds, and...
The SBA-DOE Small Business Investment Company-Energy Initiative lists grid equipment and energy-system resilience as a priority area, offering a new federal channel for private capital to reach small firms working on grid technologies.
California's Demand Side Grid Support program deploys customer batteries as a virtual power plant to offset peak demand spikes, directly addressing...
Dominion proposes a monthly surcharge to fund Virginia grid hardening, shifting costs directly to ratepayers.
Maine's Public Utilities Commission selected Clearway Energy's 800 MW Aroostook County wind farm and Avangrid's Haynesville transmission line under...
The Virgin Islands' initial VPP test successfully aggregated 1.5 MW from 120 residential batteries to reduce grid demand, demonstrating a low-cost,...
Illinois' Efficient & Resilient Public Buildings Grant Program delivers $50,000–$200,000 awards to local governments for efficiency upgrades and...
Bonneville Power Administration introduced the RAPID program at its August 19 workshop to streamline near-term interconnections, clear bottlenecks,...
The National Transmission Needs Study calls for replacing 4,000 miles of powerlines annually for decades as aging 1960s-70s infrastructure meets...
Illinois' Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act, requiring utilities to develop virtual power plant programs, prompted Solrite Energy to launch...
Texas industry groups warn that rejecting new 765 kV transmission lines risks rolling blackouts and higher costs for ratepayers.
Massachusetts is leading with a new V2G pilot that taps EV batteries for peak-demand support through the ConnectedSolutions program, offering...
AEP Texas closed a $3.26 billion DOE loan to rebuild or construct roughly 2,800 miles of transmission lines across ~100 projects, doubling corridor...
New York regulators are weighing whether to let utilities like RG&E and NYSEG own generation again, with Avangrid claiming this would speed wind and...
Texas Governor Abbott's proposed audit and temporary pause on new data-center grid connections places AI infrastructure power plans under direct...
Will special rates and new laws shield residents from surging data center demand?
Thirty-one Texas House members filed a letter requesting the PUC halt the Permian Basin Reliability Plan's 765-kV lines until reforms in the 90th...
California's unanimous approval of the EPIC 5 plan secures $185 million annually through 2030 for grid modernization, managed charging, bidirectional...
Texas House hearing exposed sharp divides over the 765-kV Permian plan, pitting energy groups against conservatives and local officials.
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Over 40 tech and AI companies—including Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta—have pledged to follow Texas' new data center standards that...