At its monthly meeting, FERC set data center reliability standard deadlines, ordered CAISO and SPP to report on “seams” issues and advanced a complaint over cost recovery for a New Jersey power line.

PJM's capacity auction for 2027/2028 fell 6,517 MW short, hitting the $333.44/MW-day price cap as AI data center demand outpaces grid supply additions.

“The outcome demonstrates that the current system doesn’t work to bring online new capacity or stimulate demand response, the two things we need the most,” Aurora Energy’s Julia…

PJM Interconnection LLC, the largest US electric grid, has failed third straight time to secure enough future supply commitments, highlighting the scale of the challenge posed by…

PJM's power auction fell 6.8 GW short for a third straight year, as data center demand pushes the US grid toward its limits.

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At its monthly meeting, FERC set data center reliability standard deadlines, ordered CAISO and SPP to report on “seams” issues and advanced a complaint over cost recovery for a…

“These numbers compound the alarm bells for a call to action in PJM”

In the PJM’s last four capacity auctions, data center-related capacity charges were nearly half of the $63.6 billion in total charges, Monitoring Analytics says.