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Federal Regulators Tell Electric Grid Operators to Fix Their Rules on Data Centers

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission stops short of fulfilling the Trump administration’s wishes but puts regional grid operators on a “short leash.”

By Lisa Sorg, Charles Paullin

Lowell, MA - May 12: The view down a street in Lowell, Mass., where a data center looms behind residential housing on May 12. Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott leads a panel with Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai at Google’s data center in Midlothian on Nov. 14, 2025. Credit: Ron Jenkins/Getty Images

A New Era of Data Center Development Is Like a Second Industrial Revolution

By Arcelia Martin

B2U Storage Solutions repurposes electric vehicles batteries which have reached the end of their automative lives to provide power to the grid. Credit: Arcelia Martin/Inside Climate News

Retired EV Batteries Scored a New Gig: Bolstering Texas’ Grid

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Sabey Data Center in Round Rock, Texas. Credit: Aaron E. Martinez/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Texas to Study ‘Batch Zero’ of Data Centers by Late Summer

By Arcelia Martin

Transmission lines connect to a power plant near Richmond, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

As Data Centers Jostle to Get on Texas’ Grid, ERCOT Promises New Rules for ‘Batch Zero’

By Arcelia Martin

Jupiter Powers battery storage complex in Houston. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

The Texas Power Grid Will Get a Boost from Batteries This Winter

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Blue Jay solar and battery storage plant in Iola, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

ERCOT’s Market is Transitioning Toward Storage and Solar

By Arcelia Martin

Diesel-fueled generators sit between buildings at the Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Data Centers’ Use of Diesel Generators for Backup Power Is Commonplace—and Problematic

By Arcelia Martin

In Houston, solar panels run down the line to the next manufacturing process at Elin Energy's solar panel manufacturing facility. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Texas Grid Increasingly Meets Growing Demand With Renewables

By Arcelia Martin

The Blue Jay solar and storage plant in Iola, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images.

What Risks Texas’ Grid Faces

By Arcelia Martin

A view of the Prairie View A&M University Solar Lab in Prairie View, Texas. Credit: Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump’s Legislation Will Constrict the Growth of Texas’ Clean Energy Industry and its Power Grid

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Azure Sky Solar Project in Haskell, Texas, on August 12, 2024. Credit: Ramsay de Give/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Texas’ Risk of Summer Blackouts Reduced Thanks to Solar and Batteries

By Arcelia Martin

Cheryl Shadden stands outside her home in Granbury, Texas, with a view of Constellation Energy's Wolf Hollow II power plant in the background. Credit: Keaton Peters/Inside Climate News

Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid

By Keaton Peters

Service technicians work to install the foundation for a transmission tower at the CenterPoint Energy power plant on in Houston, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Lawmaker Seeks to Improve Texas’ Power Capacity by Joining Regional Grid and Agreeing to Federal Oversight

By Keaton Peters

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