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FERC and NERC Report 49,700 MW of Eastern Outages in January, and No Data Center Backup Was Used

September 11, 2026 · Analysis

3 sources FERC and NERC staff found Eastern Interconnection outages peaked near 49,700 MW in January, roughly half the Winter Storm Elliott total, while 15 first-ever DOE emergency orders authorizing…

Duke Forecasts 22,295 MW in the Carolinas, and DOE Clears Data Center Backup Generators to Run Before Load Shedding

September 3, 2026 · FERC & Federal

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DOE Clears Green Mountain Power’s 8-Unit Mobile Battery Pilot for Construction Under Nomad’s New Owner

August 28, 2026 · Microgrids

5 sources The DOE Office of Electricity cleared Nomad Power Solutions to start construction in Vermont on August 26, 2026.

All Six Grid Operators Ask FERC for 90 More Days on Large-Load Rules, Pushing Filings to November 16

August 13, 2026 · FERC & Federal

5 sources FERC gave the six RTOs and ISOs until August 17 to justify or rewrite their large-load tariffs. All six asked for roughly 90 more days instead, moving the…

DOE Puts $750,000 Into Testing Whether the AI Now Running Grid Operations Can Be Fooled

August 11, 2026 · FERC & Federal

3 sources The Department of Energy awarded $750,000 to a University of Arkansas team building tools that test whether the AI models used in grid fault detection and event classification…

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NextEra to Build 2 GW of Gas and 2.6 GW of Batteries for a $100 Billion AI Campus at Paducah

August 6, 2026 · AI Energy Demand

6 sources The Department of Energy picked Brookfield to develop a $100 billion AI data center at the Paducah site in Kentucky, with NextEra building 4.6 GW of dedicated gas…

Dairyland Power Cooperative Orders 43 MWh of Invinity Flow Batteries for a DOE Rural Program

August 5, 2026 · C&I Storage

3 sources Dairyland Power Cooperative ordered 43 MWh of Invinity vanadium flow batteries for rural Midwest sites backed by a Department of Energy award of more than $28 million under…

DOE Orders SPP to Dispatch Backup Generation Across 17 States, Then Extends It Into August

August 3, 2026 · FERC & Federal

4 sources Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed emergency Order 202-26-37 on July 26, directing the Southwest Power Pool to dispatch generation and call on backup units across a 17-state footprint,…

DOE Commits $17.5 Billion in Conditional Loans to Build 10 AP1000 Reactors for AI Power Demand

June 22, 2026 · FERC & Federal

4 sources The U.S. Department of Energy conditionally committed $17.5 billion in loans to restart the AP1000 nuclear supply chain, aiming for 10 reactors under construction by 2030 to serve…

PNNL Fires Up the First Prismatic Battery Cell Line

June 4, 2026 · Energy Storage

4 sources Pacific Northwest National Laboratory activated the first prismatic battery cell line at a US national lab on June 4, 2026, a DOE-funded facility for sodium-ion and LFP chemistry…

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