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Duke Energy's two North Carolina utilities settled with the Public Staff, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, CIGFUR and the DoD on terms requiring new 50 MW-plus, high-load-factor customers to pay upfront for grid connections, pending N.C. Utilities Commission approval expected by mid-November.
Read the story →Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek told the Department of Environmental Quality to stop processing and issuing air and water permits for new or expanded data centers until July 1, 2027, while her advisory committee's recommendations are reviewed ahead of the 2027 legislative session.
Texas regulators approved, with six ERCOT conditions, a net metering arrangement putting a proposed 180-MW data center behind a Pecos County solar plant, as ERCOT recommended conditional approval of a 1,200-MW Amazon load at Comanche Peak.
AEP said on Oct. 14, 2026, that it plans to invest about $4 billion in a 702-MW Bloom Energy fuel cell plant near Cheyenne, Wyoming, with Google buying the output under a 20-year power purchase agreement and full operation targeted by the end of 2028.
AEP and X-energy signed a joint development agreement on Oct. 19, 2026, to evaluate a 960-MW, 12-reactor Xe-100 plant at the retired Breed coal site in Sullivan County, Indiana; Amazon will fund development and intends to buy the output. No final investment decision has been made.
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