Mgrid.org https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html DOE Puts $750,000 Into Testing Whether the AI Now Running Grid Operations Can Be Fooled Form Energy Raises $750 Million to Double Its Weirton Iron-Air Battery Plant Duke Energy Starts Paying South Carolina Businesses $120/kW to Put Their Batteries on Call PJM Says Northern Virginia Data Centers Tripped Too Early When 3,800 MW Left the Grid After a Cleared Fault DOE Cancels the Last Three National Interest Transmission Corridors, Returning Siting to the States GE Vernova Puts $138 Million Into a Pennsylvania Switchgear Plant to Cut Grid Equipment Lead Times Energy Vault Signs a 1.25 GW Off-Grid Power Deal for a Texas Hyperscaler AI Data Center SpaceX Will Power Its $16.8 Billion Texas Chip Fab With On-Site Gas and Batteries, Not the Grid i-charging Wins ETL Certification for Its 1.5 MW i-light Truck Charger and Opens North America Evergy Signs 3 GW of Large Load Contracts and Plans More Than 5 GW of New Generation by 2032 Pilot, GM and EVgo Pass 300 Fast Charging Sites With About 1,300 350 kW Stalls in 40 States Exelon Cuts Its High-Probability Data Center Load 40% to 11 GW After Demanding Signed Contracts and Collateral Foss & Company Backs Montgomery County’s 6.8 MW Transit Microgrid With $30 Million in Section 48 Tax Equity Pentagon Backs Sila With a $1.4 Billion Loan to Scale Silicon Anode Output at Moses Lake Siemens Energy’s Grid Order Backlog Hits a Record 51 Billion Euros on Transformer Demand PPL and Blackstone Reserve More Than 5 GW of Gas Turbines as PPL’s Data Center Pipeline Hits 31.8 GW Frontier Power Closes $263 Million and Buys the 200 MW, 800 MWh Blanquilla Battery in Nueces County, Texas Arevon’s 300 MW / 1,200 MWh Nighthawk Battery Starts Up in Poway on a PG&E Contract Signed in 2021 California’s Battery Fleet Passes 21,112 MW as Solar Outruns Gas for a Full Half-Year NV Energy Sues Tract to Keep a 2,025 MW Data Center Dispute Out of Private Arbitration Avantus Doubles Its Corporate Credit Line to $1.05 Billion to Back a 24 GW Solar and 44 GWh Storage Pipeline Siemens and FuelCell Energy Sign a Non-Binding MOU to Package 100 MW Fuel Cell Plants for Data Centers PG&E’s Data Center Pipeline Doubles to 12.7 GW, But Only 490 MW Has a Signed Agreement Constellation Bets on 1.1 GW of Nuclear Uprates While Selling a 606 MW Gas Plant for $860 Million Italy’s Energy Storage Future Post-MACSE: Summit 2026 Insights OPUC Puts PGE Data Center Rate Hike on Hold, 29% Increase Questioned Trump Sets 15% Tariff and a 38-Cent Price Floor on Imported Solar Panels onsemi Launches GaNEXUS GaN FETs Power Factor Correction Market Reaches $2.78 Billion We Energies Starts Building 125 MW of Batteries, 150 MW of Solar and 110 MW of Wind in Wisconsin ISO New England Picks a .2 Billion CMP and Eversource Line to Carry 1,200 MW of Aroostook Wind South NNSA Picks Amentum to Negotiate a 1 GW AI Data Center With 2 GW of Onsite Power at Savannah River GE Vernova Puts $138 Million and 275 Jobs Into Its Charleroi Switchgear Plant With $6 Million in State Grants Lincoln Electric System Energizes a 3 MW, 12 MWh Eos Zinc Battery Inside Its 30 MW Downtown Community Microgrid Virginia Orders Dominion to Charge Data Centers Directly for Connection Infrastructure, Policy Due in 90 Days Texas Freezes New Data Center Grid Approvals Until PUCT and ERCOT Audit a 474 GW Queue GE Vernova Gas Turbine Backlog Reaches 100 GW, Driven by Data Massachusetts Seeks 1,000 MW of Storage and Opens Its First Distribution-Connected Carve-Out DC Circuit Upholds FERC Order 2023, Keeping $2,500-a-Day Late Fees for Interconnection Studies PJM Accepts 715 Projects and 201.5 GW Into the First Cycle of Its Reformed Queue Fluence Reports a Record $6.4 Billion Backlog and Cuts Its 2026 Revenue Guidance by $400 Million Hydrostor Signs 60 MW Offtake for 500 MW Willow Rock Compressed Air Storage in Kern County Westinghouse Files Confidentially for a US IPO as Brookfield and Cameco Test the Nuclear Market DOE Closes $489.4M Loan for 220 MW of Puerto Rico Battery Storage Orsted Energizes 250 MW/500 MWh Old 300 Battery Storage in Texas Eolian Starts Building the Largest PJM Battery at 200 MW and 1.06 GWh in Licking County, Ohio NRG Lines Up a $3.2 Billion 1.2 GW Texas Gas Plant Paid by Capacity, Not by Data Center Output Nebraska Public Power District Starts a $3.1 Billion 694 MW Plant as the Governor Pauses Data Center Incentives CenterPoint Submits 17 GW of Large Loads to ERCOT Batch Zero and Adds $1.2 Billion to Its Capital Plan NextEra to Build 2 GW of Gas and 2.6 GW of Batteries for a $100 Billion AI Campus at Paducah