North Carolina denies Duke a 255 MW turbine over data-centre forecasts
Regulators called the $584 million price staggering and held that load growth resting on anticipated data centre customers is not reliable enough to act on.
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Texas drops the per-megawatt interconnection fee for large loads
The PUCT adopted large-load rules without the proposed $50,000/MW non-refundable fee, set a flat $100,000 study fee and extended the missed-milestone notification window to 24 months.
Newsom vetoes a CPUC watchdog bill and signs a data-center law package
California's governor rejected an inspector general for the utilities commission on budget and independence grounds, while signing laws that tighten data-center energy reporting and require new rate structures.
India's largest cell plant opens at 7GW, built for $343 million
Premier Energies takes its cell capacity to 10.6GW with an n-type TOPCon line in Andhra Pradesh designed to turn out 88,000 cells an hour.
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.
US retail diesel hits $6.29 a gallon, a record in nominal terms
Refining margins, not crude alone, are carrying the increase. EIA's breakdown shows where each dollar at the pump is going.