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Power Check: Watt's Going on with the Grid: Bank of America Institute Report

The Bank of America Institute (“Institute”) issued a July 22nd report titled: Power check: Watt’s going on with the grid? (“Report”)....more

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Texas SB 6 Overhauls Rules for Large Energy Loads in ERCOT

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A new state law in Texas, SB 6, significantly changes how large loads interconnect with and operate within The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. Energy companies developing large data centers, crypto...more

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Currents - Energy Law Insights, V 9, Issue 6, June 2025

Welcome to our sixth issue of Currents 2025. We are covering a multitude of issues in this edition, but we want to pass along a couple of announcements first. Again, thank you for reading! Amazon and Pennsylvania Join the...more

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Bill 40: A New Focus for Ontario Energy

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On June 3rd, 2025, the Government of Ontario introduced Bill 40, the Protect Ontario by Securing Affordable Energy for Generations Act (the “Bill”). If passed, the Bill will make amendments to the Electricity Act and the...more

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Texas SB6 Establishes New Transmission Fees and Interconnection Standards for Large Load Customers and Co-Located Loads

Texas has responded to rapid electrical load growth with legislative reforms. On June 1, 2025, Texas Senate Bill 6 (SB 6), passed both chambers of the Legislature with bipartisan support and was sent to Governor Abbott for...more

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Anticipating the AI Energy Impact: IEA Highlights Growing Demand from Data Centers

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released a report forecasting a significant increase in global electricity demand from data centers, driven in large part by the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence...more

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Currents - Energy Industry Insights: V 9, Issue 4, April 2025

Welcome to our fourth issue of Currents 2025. We are covering a multitude of issues in this edition, but we want to pass along a couple of announcements first. Again, thank you for reading! The Data Center Boom...more

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IPPSA 2025 and Alberta's New Market: If They Build It, Who Will Come?

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Once again, it was a great opportunity to attend the Independent Power Producers Society of Alberta (IPPSA) Annual Conference and to meet with industry, government and regulatory authorities on issues facing our electricity...more

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Data Centers: A Field Guide

By one count, worldwide there were some 11,800 data centers in early 2024. Within that census are facilities so small that they fit in office building closets, while others are among the largest manmade structures on the...more

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Powering the Digital Future: Navigating the Nuclear Option for Data Centers

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Modern data centers are the foundation of our information society and now use artificial intelligence to generate new forms of machine intelligence and learning – though at the cost of considerable energy consumption. Their...more

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FERC Initiates Proceeding on Co-Location of Power Demand With Generating Facilities, Raising Issues That Will Reverberate Across...

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently issued an order (Co-location Order) finding that the treatment of load that co-locates behind generating facilities’ points of interconnection with the grid in the PJM...more

Artificial Intelligence and Data Centers Predicted to Drive Record High Energy Demand

The growing interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered a race to develop the technology, driving demand for high-density data centers and significantly increasing predicted electricity consumption....more

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Texas’ Power Transmission Infrastructure: Addressing Growing Demand from Data Centers and Crypto Mining

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Texas is facing a rapidly evolving energy landscape, driven in part by the surging power demands of data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations. As the digital economy expands, the state’s existing power transmission...more

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Energy Demand for AI Drives the Midwest’s Focus on Resource Adequacy

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As presidential administrations change and policy priorities shift, the steady hum of electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers presses forward. Last week, the President signed several executive...more

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Power Infrastructure: The New Driver of Industrial Site Selection

For decades, the availability and cost of labor dominated industrial site selection decisions in the United States. Today, however, a new factor has emerged as equally crucial: power infrastructure. The rise of...more

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Energy Law: Month in Review - November 2024

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Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Month in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments in the previous month....more

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Big Data Meets Big Green: Data Centers and Carbon Removal Compete for Zero-Emission Energy

Artificial intelligence, data centers, carbon removal and zero-emission power may sound like a winning line (plus the Free Space) on a 2024 Buzzword Bingo card. But the concepts have come into dramatic real-world tension as...more

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Renewable Energy Update 8.29.24

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California will solicit up to 2 GW of long-duration energy storage resources as part of a 10.6 GW centralized procurement for emerging clean energy technologies to be deployed between 2031 and 2037, the California Public...more

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This Week’s Climate Policy Update - June 2024

Good afternoon! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and hearings...more

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Green Data: a global perspective on a new trend for data centers

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The data center market is rapidly gaining strength worldwide but with the inherent energy demands, the sector is increasingly focussed on targeting renewable energy. ESG is the topic of the moment for all sectors and data...more

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