Virginia makes direct-connect data centres pay for their own lines
The state commission ordered a mandatory construction contribution for the substations and lines that serve large loads. Microsoft has filed to keep its options open.
Serguey Asael Shinder
Contributing writer
Engineer. Reads grid data, market notices and regulator decisions, and writes down what each one changes for the people who operate and pay for the system.
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Slovenia's second reactor needs a 195m tower and 112 road works
GEN energija published two studies before the referendum: a cooling tower choice and a transport route from Koper that needs clearance work in 112 places.
A 76.5MWh battery in Brandenburg can charge only from its own solar
Import capacity agreed at the connection stage was withdrawn after the plant was built, and the storage business case went with it.
NSW firming tender finishes with 3GWh of batteries operating
Four projects, AU$1.8 billion, and roughly 8% of the state's summer peak - all of it batteries, none of it gas.
ACER faults Portugal's adequacy study over its assumptions
Europe's assessment finds no problem in Portugal. The national one finds a shortfall growing fiftyfold by 2035. ACER's opinion is about the modelling, not the lights.