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Google and Constellation announced a 20-year PPA on Oct. 6, 2026, to fund uprates at 11 Constellation reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey that the companies say will add 890 MW to the PJM grid, with the first uprate expected by 2028.
Read the story →PJM accepted three projects totaling more than 2,100 MW of nameplate capacity into its temporary Expedited Interconnection Track: two ENGIE battery projects in Pennsylvania and Ohio and a 455-MW gas uprate at Hunterstown that Utility Dive attributes to LS Power. All three are slated to come online in mid-2029.
PJM has filed an executed State Agreement Approach study agreement at FERC (Docket ER27-126). It covers SB Energy's proposed Flagship AI data center, generation and transmission project centered at DOE's former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, Ohio.
FERC's Oct. 19, 2026 deadline for comments and interventions passed on DeepGreen Western Passage SPV LLC's preliminary permit application for a tidal-powered subsea compute hub near Eastport, Maine. The City of Eastport, the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Sipayik and conservation groups have asked FERC to deny it.
FERC voted 4-1 on Oct. 9, 2026, to accept Duke Energy Carolinas' revised network transmission terms, effective Aug. 1, 2026. Network customers adding 100 MW or more of load must commit to a revenue contribution of 75% of scheduled load for 15 years after the upgrades built for them enter service. Commissioner Judy Chang dissented.
MISO has asked FERC (Docket ER27-25-000) to approve a Large Load Addition Resource Study that would study new loads of 200 MW or more alongside electrically proximate new generation in a parallel process of about 120 days, with a requested Dec. 2, 2026 effective date. Comments are due Oct. 23.
FERC on Oct. 9, 2026 accepted PJM's 50 MW Large Load definition and a Large Load Registry but rejected the IRAS curtailment service, BYONC rules and a VRR-curve exclusion, citing state jurisdiction and an insufficient just-and-reasonable showing.
NERC said Oct. 15 that its computational-load reliability standards for AI data centers and crypto miners of 50 MW or more at 100 kV or above passed final ballot. They go next to NERC's board, then to FERC, which set a Dec. 31, 2026 filing deadline.
FERC accepted but suspended PJM's one-time Reliability Backstop Procurement until Feb. 28, 2027, and opened a hearing on cost allocation. DOE has since urged PJM to make large loads, not households, pay. PJM plans a revised filing by Oct. 29.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger's testimony in the Virginia SCC merger case asks regulators to reject the NextEra–Dominion petition unless the companies agree to a six-year residential base rate freeze, larger bill credits and a walled-off subsidiary to supply large data centers.
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