Tag: datacenter


  • Netting sounds like plumbing โ€” a back-office accounting convenience that lets a grid operator collapse a jumble of charges and credits into one tidy number. For decades, that’s mostly what it was. But in the last three years, netting has become one of the most contested ideas in U.S. electricity regulation, showing up in fights…

  • We have reached an unprecedented inflection point in the history of the American electric grid. For decades, power demand remained relatively flat, but the explosive rise of generative artificial intelligence has rewritten the calculus of national energy needs overnight. As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) convened for its landmark June 2026 meeting, the atmosphere…