Analysis
Energy and the grid, read from the primary documents
AnalysisVictoria says a new data centre must bring its own generation and storage. FERC looked at a 1.8-GW reservation backed by one dollar and sent the fight to court. Both are asking what a hyperscale load must put at risk.
AnalysisNorth Carolina refused Duke a gas turbine because data-centre load growth is 'insufficiently reliable'. California made data centres pay their own grid upgrades. The same question, answered twice in a week.
AnalysisTexas softens large-load interconnection, Chile writes verification criteria for grid-forming plant, ACER harmonises balancing prequalification. Three regulators on one day, all working on admission rather than equipment.
AnalysisNew York approved a $3.26bn line while the offshore wind it was sized for keeps slipping. The mismatch is not a mistake — it is what building infrastructure against a statute rather than a pipeline looks like.
AnalysisAustralia spilled 11.1GW on Sunday. Brazil's utility-scale module imports fell 82%. These are the same event, eighteen months apart.
AnalysisSlovenia's own figures put the same reactor at €65 or €103 a MWh. Nothing about the plant changes between those two numbers — only who lends the money, and at what rate.