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Texas Senate Bill 6: Understanding the Impacts to Large Loads and Co-located Generation

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During its 2025 regular session, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 6 ("SB 6") to establish a regulatory framework to manage the rapid growth of consumers with high electricity demand (currently ≥ 75 MW)—referred to as...more

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Texas Senate Bill 6: Significant Changes to Interconnection Requirements Will Impact Large Loads and Other Electric Market...

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During its recently concluded regular session, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 6 (“SB 6”), which establishes new requirements and costs for the interconnection and operation of Large Load customers in Texas. The bill...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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Request for Comments on Rulemaking to Implement Firming Reliability Requirements for Electric-Generating Facilities in the ERCOT...

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Legislative Background - On Friday, 6 June 2025, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (the PUCT or the Commission) released a memorandum detailing the new requirements set forth under House Bill 1500 (HB 1500) (88 Reg....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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Large Load Integration on Alberta’s Electricity Grid: The AESO’s Proposed Approach for Data Centre Connections

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The growing data centre industry continues to be a focal point of the Alberta Government’s economic diversification strategy. Policy work aimed at attracting data centre investment to the province is ongoing and interest in...more

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Senate Bill 6 & Upcoming Changes to Texas Electric Regulations: What Data Centers and Large Power Users Need to Know

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Texas has long been a magnet for manufacturing and data center development, thanks to its business-friendly climate, abundant land, and low-cost energy infrastructure. But as the state’s electric grid faces new challenges...more

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Federal Court of Justice Rules on Costumer Installation

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On May 13, 2025, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) issued a long-awaited decision (EnVR 83/20) on the question of whether an energy grid can be classified as an unregulated “customer installation” (Kundenanlage). In the...more

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NERC Tees Up Plan to Assess Grid Risks Associated with Data Centers

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The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) outlined forthcoming activities to identify and address the potential impacts to reliability as a result of the rapid expansion of data centers and other large...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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US Reliability Executive Order Directs Broad Use of DOE Emergency Powers

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President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order titled Strengthening the Reliability and Security of the United States Electric Grid, which aims to bolster electric grid reliability and address the national energy...more

McGuireWoods Consulting

2025 Data Center Policy Report

House Bill 1601/Senate Bill 1449 – Requires Virginia localities to have any application for a rezoning, special exception, or special use permit from a High Energy Use Facility (HEUF) (which is defined as a facility that will...more

McCarter & English, LLP

MISO Proposes Short-Term Solution to Help Accelerate Generation Project Review Process

Energy markets in the United States are experiencing rapid changes on both the demand and supply sides of the equation. While various drivers such as a resurgence in manufacturing, data center buildouts for cloud computing...more

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City’s Electric Slide Stumbles as Invalid Tax

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We often focus on whether a levy is a tax masquerading as a fee because a state tax must be fairly apportioned under United States Constitutional precedent, while a fee is not so limited. Some “fees” can be quite material in...more

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New Energy Laws

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1. Introduction - As a result of the constitutional reforms regarding strategic areas and companies, as well as organizational simplification, which came into effect at the end of 2024, the following new energy laws were...more

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Vietnam: impact on LNG-to-power projects of the new Electricity Law guiding Decree 56

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On March 3, 2025, the Vietnamese government issued Decree No. 56/2025/ND-CP (Decree 56) which provides detailed guidance on the implementation of a number of provisions of the new Electricity Law regarding developing power...more

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FERC Meeting Agenda Summaries for March 2025

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Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC or the Commission) open meeting to be held on March 13, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The summaries below are based on publicly...more

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New Provisions for Integrating Electric Energy Storage Systems into the National Electric System

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On March 7, 2025, the Energy Regulatory Commission ("CRE") published the new "General Administrative Provisions for the Integration of Electric Energy Storage Systems to the National Electric System" (the "Provisions")....more

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Utilities Petition FCC for Updates to TCPA Guidelines to Allow “Demand Response” Calls and Texts

Edison Electric Institute (EEI), an association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies, petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to permit calls and texts under the Telephone Consumer...more

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Comisión Reguladora de Energía (CRE) publica las DACG de Almacenamiento en México

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La Comisión Reguladora de Energía (CRE) de México, el 7 de marzo de 2025, publicó en el Diario Oficial de la Federación el "Acuerdo de la Comisión Reguladora de Energía por el que se emiten las disposiciones administrativas...more

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FERC Institutes Show Cause Proceeding to Address Co-Location Issues Related to Data Centers Running AI in PJM and Requests...

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On February 20, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued an order instituting a show cause proceeding in Docket No. EL25-49 to review issues associated with the co-location of large loads...more

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Captive Power Projects: A Summary of the Western Africa Regulatory Environment

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Recent increases in construction and financing costs are directly affecting the development of energy projects across Africa. Captive power projects (CPPs) offer the possibility of mitigating this challenging landscape for...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

FERC Moves Closer to Establishing Standardized Rules for Co-location of Large Loads and Generators

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At its latest open meeting on February 20, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order directing PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) and the PJM Transmission Owners (PJM TOs) to demonstrate why the PJM...more

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FERC Moves Forward Quickly on Generator Co-Location With Large Loads

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During last week’s 20 February 2025 open meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) initiated a show cause proceeding, directing grid operator PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) and PJM’s transmission-owning...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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