North 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.
Import capacity agreed at the connection stage was withdrawn after the plant was built, and the storage business case went with it.
A CUSC modification puts a price on staying in the connections queue, starting at £3,000 per MW and rising to £25,000. Consultation closes on 1 October.
Refining margins, not crude alone, are carrying the increase. EIA's breakdown shows where each dollar at the pump is going.
Four projects, AU$1.8 billion, and roughly 8% of the state's summer peak - all of it batteries, none of it gas.
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.
