Mgrid.org https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Chevron, Microsoft Sign 20-Year Deal for 2.67 GW Off-Grid Gas Plant Valar Atomics’ Ward 250 Reactor Goes Critical in Utah Navitas Launches Isolated Through-Hole SiC Package Panasonic Puts $2.18 Billion Into Data Center Batteries, Converts 32 GWh Kansas EV Plant From Q3 2029 ERCOT Board Endorses ‘Batch Zero’ Rules to Study 100 GW of a 450 GW Data Center Load Queue Powell Industries Books $400 Million Behind-the-Meter Data Center State of Grid Policy & Markets: 58 GW Added State of EV Charging: Megawatt-Scale Infrastructure Arrives State of Data Center Power: 27% of U.S. Facilities Shift The MGRID Solid-State Transformer Coverage: A Comprehensive Index Wolfspeed’s 200mm SiC Wafer Capacity Is the Biggest 2026 Bottleneck for Solid-State Transformers Schneider Electric Energy Management Revenue Up 12.8% Sunraycer breaks ground on 620 MW Texas solar-storage project Orlando Hosts Microgrid Conference on Decentralized Energy Army Awards Dynetics $617M Contract for Air Defense System Standard Solar Acquires New Mexico Community Solar Projects Span and NVIDIA Launch XFRA Distributed AI Data Center Network FERC Delays DOE Data Center Interconnection Rulemaking to June Global Data Center PUE Stalls at 1.54 EPRI Projects Data Centers to Hit 17% of U.S. Electricity by 2030 Champlain Hudson Power Express Energizes Cummins to Power Circe Energy’s West Texas AI Data Centers With 2 GW State of Battery & Energy Storage: $1.35 Billion GE Vernova Gas Turbine Backlog Reaches 100 GW, Driven by Data PowerBank Leases 5 MW Solar & Battery Storage in Upstate NY NERC 2026: 224 GW Peak Demand, Data Centers Strain Grid NERC May 15 Enforcement Deadline Targets Hundreds of Solar Lunar Energy Secures 32M to Scale Home Battery VPP Deloitte: Most Renewables and Microgrid Acquisitions Now Power Data Centers Trump sets 15% tariff on some electrical grid equipment Colorado Funds 28 Microgrids Fire Stations Shelters Data Center Grid Delays Put 50% of 2026 AI Capacity at Risk Indiana Approves AES’s Plan for Google’s 390 MW Monrovia Data Center, and Puts $73.8 Million of Upgrades in Rate Base FERC Rejects PJM’s Curtail-First Plan for New Large Loads, and Keeps Only the 50 MW Definition and a Registry FERC Accepts Duke’s 75%, 15-Year Floor on Large-Load Transmission Costs, and a Commissioner Calls It the Low End North Carolina’s First Helene Microgrid Stores 68 kWh, and Component Rules Are Shrinking the $5 Million Program FERC Upholds 11 Years of PJM Transmission Refunds, and the Recalculated Bills Run Back to June 18, 2015 Utilities Filed a Record $4.5 Billion of Third-Quarter Rate Requests, and $23.1 Billion So Far in 2026 Duke’s Large-Load Settlement Sets a 50 MW Trigger and 75% Minimum Billing, But Drops the Clean Transition Tariff Puget Sound Energy Lands $40.2 Million to Reconductor 23 Miles of Line, But the Grant Agreement Is Not Final Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Asks the SCC to Reject the $67 Billion NextEra-Dominion Merger Wood Mackenzie Puts Four-Hour Storage Below Gas Peakers in All 43 Modeled Markets, But Publishes No Prices Clearway Starts Building 650 MW of Missouri Solar on Strip-Mined Land, But Names No Buyer for Its 20-Year PPA NYISO Study Puts Arthur Kill II Deliverability Upgrades at $216 Million for 180 MW on Staten Island Doral Completes Indiana’s 1.3 GW Mammoth Solar, But the Utilities Buying Its 900 MW Are Still Unnamed DOE Makes Its First FERC Filing in Five Years on PJM’s 6.8 GW Backstop, and PJM Must Refile by October 29 LS Power Closes a $6 Billion Fund, and Its First $1.7 Billion Buys 5 GW of Gas Navitas and Microchip Put 20 kW of 800-Volt-to-6-Volt Conversion in One Stage, But Name No Price and No Ship Date Black Hills Books $1.8 Billion and 564 MW for Google’s Cheyenne Data Center, But Owns None of the 2.1 GW Microgrid HelioVolta Inspects 1,500 US Solar Projects and Finds 87% Carry Major Defects