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21.05.26 - 01:24
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Several States Contest Federal Orders Keeping Coal-Fired Power Plants Open (ZeroHedge)
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Several States Contest Federal Orders Keeping Coal-Fired Power Plants Open
Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A three-judge federal appeals panel is expected to issue a decision by year's end on a lawsuit challenging Energy Secretary Chris Wright's May 2025 emergency order that prevented a Michigan utility from closing a 64-year-old coal-fired power plant.
The R.M. Schahfer Generating Station's two-coal fired electricity generators in Wheatfield, Indiana, built in 1983 and 1986, were scheduled to close on Dec. 31, 2025, but remain operating under emergency orders issued by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Northern Indiana Public Service Company
How the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rules in Michigan v. DOE after hearing May 15 oral arguments could prove precedential in deciding three similar cases–including two before the same court. It could also resolve a May 9 lawsuit filed in Seattle's U.S. District Court by 16 Democratic state attorneys ...
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21.05.26 - 00:21
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Largest US Electric Grid Gets Approval To Curtail Data Centers During Hot Weather (ZeroHedge)
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Largest US Electric Grid Gets Approval To Curtail Data Centers During Hot Weather
By Ethan Howland of Utility Dive
Power plant and transmission owners often take their facilities offline in the spring for maintenance so they are prepared for the summer, PJM noted. The largest US electricity grid operator said it expected power plants totaling more than 40 GW would be offline for planned outages on May 18.
An Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Va. The PJM Interconnection will be able to curtail data centers and other large loads that have backup generation under an emergency order issued May 18, 2026, by the U.S. Department of Energy
“The projected level of generation outages coupled with the forecasted demand raises a significant risk of emergency conditions that could jeopardize electric reliability and public safety,” PJM said.
The curtailments would be a last resort before ordering rolling blackouts, according to the DOE's order, issued under the Federal Power Act's secti...
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20.05.26 - 21:51
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Data Centers Could Be 33% Of Commercial Building Electricity Use By 2050: EIA (ZeroHedge)
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Data Centers Could Be 33% Of Commercial Building Electricity Use By 2050: EIA
By Diana DiGangi of UtilityDive
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that data centers will “increasingly skew more energy intensive” and that electricity consumed by them will increase across all commercial building stock, with their servers growing to make up an estimated 22% to 33% of commercial building electricity use by 2050, according to an April report.
In its 2026 Annual Energy Outlook, EIA modeled various scenarios to explore how much data centers might drive demand in the medium and long term. In its high electricity demand scenario, the agency assumed “growth in the installed stock of AI servers follows an exponential trend through 2050” and didn't make any assumptions about increases in computational efficiency beyond historical trends.
"These assumptions lead data center server energy use alone to grow to 818 billion kilowatt hours in 2050 in the High Electricity Demand ca...
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20.05.26 - 19:24
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Commercial Electricity Use Will Surpass Residential In 2027, As Price Surge Set To Continue: EIA (ZeroHedge)
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Commercial Electricity Use Will Surpass Residential In 2027, As Price Surge Set To Continue: EIA
By Robert Wilson of UtilityDive
Commercial electricity consumption is likely to surpass residential use for the first time on record in 2027, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Tuesday in its Short-Term Energy Outlook.
The commercial sector, which includes hyperscalers, bitcoin miners and cloud computing, is expected to see electricity sales grow 2.2% to about 1,530 billion kWh in 2026 — roughly the same as the residential sector — followed by 5.3% growth the following year, EIA said.
Demand from the residential sector, which has historically accounted for the largest share of U.S. electricity use, will remain largely flat over the next two years, growing about 0.5% in 2026 and 2027. Total U.S. electricity consumption in 2026 will be almost 4,250 billion kWh, up 1.3% from 2025, and is expected to grow 3.1% in 2027.
Meanwhile, U.S. residential electricity prices will continue to r...
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20.05.26 - 08:30
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UK inflation eases more than expected to 2.8%, led by lower electricity and gas bills – business live (The Guardian)
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Food inflation also slows, to 3%Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy.It's inflation day! (and Nvidia day)There was a notable fall in annual inflation led by lower electricity and gas prices. This was due to the government's energy bill support package reducing variable and fixed tariffs, along with lower global wholesale energy prices before the conflict in the Middle East, which fed through to the reduction in the Ofgem cap.The war in Iran is not our war but one we will need to respond to, and the decisions I took in the budget last year have kept inflation down as we deal with global instability. We have the right economic plan, and to change course now would risk our economic stability and leave working people worse off.We have already taken £117 off energy bills, frozen rail fares, and lifted the two-child limit, and over today and tomorrow I'll set out the next phase of how we will support UK households.For too long, vital infr...
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