The Ohio Supreme Court ruled unanimously that submetering companies — the third-party middlemen who buy electricity wholesale from the utility and resell it to apartment and mobile-home tenants — must be regulated under Ohio's public-utility …
Jackson-based Gabriel Prado's PraCon Global Investment Group, acting through affiliate Prado AI Industrial, has filed a Request for Declaratory Opinion with the Mississippi Public Service Commission asking the commission to confirm that private …
Two Maine energy stories are converging this week, and both are worth understanding together. LD 307 — the statewide data-center moratorium — passed both chambers of the Maine Legislature on April 14 without Gov. Janet Mills' requested carveout for …
Ravenna City Council voted unanimously on April 20 to bar data-center construction across the city for twelve months while it drafts zoning rules. The ordinance was written to also cover "server farms" and "cryptocurrency mining facilities" so the …
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is reviewing air-quality permit applications for 45 diesel-fired backup generators at the Cloverleaf/Vantage $15 billion data center under construction in Port Washington. Per the DNR application …
A new longitudinal analysis from The Data Center, a New Orleans-based research nonprofit, delivers the single most useful empirical rebuttal in circulation to the "transformative-investment-equals-transformative-jobs" pitch that data-center and …
A town hall meeting convenes at Buffalo Town Hall tonight at 6:30 PM to coordinate opposition to Google's proposed 1,700-acre data center in Putnam County. The site is roughly 2.7 square miles — about twice the area of New York City's Central Park …
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 1134 / HB 1217 on April 22 at a Jacksonville ceremony. The bill's headline provisions are anti-DEI measures — prohibiting certain diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at state and local levels — but the energy …
The three-member Public Service Commission of Wisconsin convenes at 10:30 AM today at the Hill Farms State Office Building in Madison to rule on We Energies' proposed Very Large Customer (VLC) tariff — a special electric rate structure designed …
Today the "what is a public utility?" question moves through three state regulatory venues, in three different directions. Wisconsin's PSC votes on whether hyperscale data centers should pay 100% of their grid costs or 75%. Ohio's Supreme Court …
Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection has proposed a consent decree that would allow the commonwealth's two largest coal-fired power plants — the Keystone Generating Station in Armstrong County and the Conemaugh Generating Station in …
In a closely watched veto-session vote Wednesday, the Virginia General Assembly split the difference on Gov. Abigail Spanberger's amendments to SB 253 and HB 1393 — the two major data-center cost-shift bills passed earlier this year. The outcome is …
A new Powerlines study reported Wednesday by Ohio Capital Journal finds that the country's 51 investor-owned utilities plan to spend $1.4 trillion on capital projects through 2030 — and have already filed $31 billion in rate-increase requests in …
Today's throughline: the ratepayer-cost question moves from rhetoric into statute, settlement, and bill. A new utility-sector study puts the national number at $1.4 trillion in filed grid capex through 2030, with Ohio customers getting the first …
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