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14.10.26 - 23:00
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Useless Without Transmission: DOE Backs $581 Million TVA Grid Expansion (ZeroHedge)
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Useless Without Transmission: DOE Backs $581 Million TVA Grid Expansion
On the same day we asked how much of the grid's bill is really AI's, the Department of Energy offered a partial answer.
@TVAnews and @ENERGY are supporting readily-available, affordable energy that powers Tennessee and the nation. @POTUS is lowering costs for over 2 million families and businesses while bringing new innovation and employment to the Volunteer State to the tune of 800 jobs.
— Senator Bill Hagerty (@SenatorHagerty) October 13, 2026
On Tuesday, DOE said it plans to help the Tennessee Valley Authority fund 84 transmission and distribution projects across eight states to add about 2.5 gigawatts of grid capacity. The award totals roughly $581 million, with $250 million in federal money and $331 million from TVA.
“America's electric grid cannot become a roadblock to economic growth,” said Katie Jereza, who heads DOE's Office of Electricity.
Deputy Energy Secretary James Danly went further, blaming “yea...
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14.10.26 - 18:48
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Nation′s Largest Power Grid Declares Emergency As Hot Temps Collide With Maintenance Shutdowns (ZeroHedge)
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Nation's Largest Power Grid Declares Emergency As Hot Temps Collide With Maintenance Shutdowns
A short-lived heat blast across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic overlaps with scheduled power plant shutdowns for seasonal maintenance on PJM Interconnection's grid, which serves 67 million people from the Mid-Atlantic to Chicago. PJM was forced to declare a low-level emergency for Tuesday and Wednesday as 60 gigawatts of capacity remained offline.
Bloomberg reports that the squeeze sent spot power prices skyrocketing across PJM's Western hub to $1,021 per megawatt-hour Tuesday afternoon, more than double the day-ahead average for that hour. Day-ahead prices for Wednesday jumped 28% to $295.83 per megawatt-hour, the highest daily average since mid-July.
"Unpredictable weather patterns are providing fewer days to perform important maintenance or construction on the generation and transmission equipment serving our footprint," PJM spokesman Jeffrey Shields told the outlet in an email.
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14.10.26 - 11:39
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AKTIE IM FOKUS: PNE verlieren nach gesenktem Ergebnisausblick fast ein Fünftel (DPA-AFX)
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Wegen Verschiebungen einzelner Projekte in diesem Jahr erwartet der Windparkentwickler nun deutlich weniger Gewinn und sprach von einem schwierigen Umfeld und sich verzögernden Verkäufen. Die ursprünglich für 2026 vorgesehenen Ergebnisbeiträge würden teilweise erst 2027 realisiert, hieß es. Gleichzeitig will PNE einige für den Verkauf geplante Windparks behalten. Bei PNE rückten jetzt die Liquidität und die Refinanzierung in den Fokus, schrieb Philipp Kaiser vom Analysehaus MPCM..
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14.10.26 - 11:36
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Two Power Bills Show Growing US Electricity Price Divide (Bloomberg)
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The two neighbors weather the same storms, heat waves and cold snaps and live so close that each could probably spot the other's house if they knew where to look. Michelle Ma and Nadja Popovich report on why prices are rising much faster at investor-owned utilities than at municipal ones. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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14.10.26 - 10:33
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Massive Angriffe: Hunderttausende in Ukraine ohne Strom (DPA-AFX)
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KIEW/MOSKAU (dpa-AFX) - Russland hat die Ukraine in der Nacht erneut massiv mit Angriffen überzogen. In der Folge gebe es Tote und Verletzte, zudem seien mindestens 600.000 Haushalte ohne Strom, schrieb der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj. Russland ......
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14.10.26 - 06:21
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Trump Announces Federal Support To Keep Local Energy Provider Online In Ohio (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Announces Federal Support To Keep Local Energy Provider Online In Ohio
President Donald Trump said at an Oct. 12 rally in Youngstown, Ohio, that the departments of Energy and Commerce will help keep SOBE Thermal Energy Systems, a troubled downtown steam utility, running as cold weather approaches. "You're going to stay nice and warm during the winter," Trump said at the Covelli Centre rally for local Republicans ahead of the midterms.
President Donald Trump takes the stage during a rally at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio, on Oct. 12, 2026. Travis Gillmore/The Epoch TimesDetails were thin. The Epoch Times said it had asked the departments for comment on what federal support would look like.
SOBE has been in trouble for a year. A Mahoning County judge appointed a receiver last fall at the request of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, and its rented boiler was repossessed days later over unpaid bills, the Vindicator reported. A January waterline rupture left 28 down...
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13.10.26 - 23:33
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Big Tech Pushes Back On Paying For A Grid That Was Crumbling Long Before AI (ZeroHedge)
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Big Tech Pushes Back On Paying For A Grid That Was Crumbling Long Before AI
When Big Tech signed President Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge in March, promising to pay for all the new grid infrastructure upgrades required to service their data centers, we cautioned that "voluntary pledges from trillion-dollar tech giants have a habit of evolving."
Seven months later, the hyperscalers are pushing back on how much of the grid's bill is theirs to pay.
The past week brought a Democratic Senate report and a North Carolina utility settlement, and FERC is expected to rule on whether new data centers must bring their own power.
But before anyone grabs a pitchfork, ask the question none of them answers: how much of this bill is really AI's, and how much is the cost of decades of grid neglect?
On Friday, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen and Richard Blumenthal released Power and Profits, the result of a nearly yearlong investigation into seven data center operators including Ama...
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