https://loadfactornews.com/Data centers, power demand and the policy fights over both.en-usWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/11/11/florida-psc-denies-duke-large-load-tariff-sb-484/https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/11/11/florida-psc-denies-duke-large-load-tariff-sb-484/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTHollisIn the first test of Florida's 2026 data center cost law, the Public Service Commission sent Duke Energy Florida back to file a large-load rate schedule and to cover customers that ask for interruptible service.https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/11/10/ferc-scoping-ngpl-amarillo-expansion-cp26-581-data-center-gas/https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/11/10/ferc-scoping-ngpl-amarillo-expansion-cp26-581-data-center-gas/Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTHollisIn Docket CP26-581, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America wants a new compressor station and a delivery point in Deaf Smith County to move 550,000 dekatherms a day to IP Roman III Gas, which says it needs the gas for a power plant serving a planned data center. Scoping comments are due December 2.https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/11/06/oregon-puc-ue-463-pacific-power-schedule-401-data-center-stipulation/https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/11/06/oregon-puc-ue-463-pacific-power-schedule-401-data-center-stipulation/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTHollisIn Docket UE 463, a settlement among Pacific Power, PUC staff, the Citizens' Utility Board and environmental groups would make every new Oregon data center of 20 MW or more sign its own Commission-approved contract. The Data Center Coalition wants a stated rate instead. The order is targeted for November 13.https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/11/03/georgia-psc-docket-57171-rtp-fuel-credit-data-centers-rebuttal/https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/11/03/georgia-psc-docket-57171-rtp-fuel-credit-data-centers-rebuttal/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTHollisIn Docket 57171, the Georgia Public Service Commission is deciding how much of the money real-time-pricing customers pay, data centers among them, should count toward the fuel bill everyone else pays. Georgia Power's October 27 rebuttal sets up a November 12 hearing and a December 15 vote.https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/10/28/glendale-annexes-project-eagle-baccara-data-center-gas-plant/https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/10/28/glendale-annexes-project-eagle-baccara-data-center-gas-plant/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHollisThe Glendale City Council voted October 27 to annex and rezone a 160-acre West Valley site for Takanock's data center campus and the self-supply gas plant the Arizona Corporation Commission certificated in February at about 700 MW. The city vote settles land use; the air permit and the substation's terms sit elsewhere.https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/10/21/ohio-supreme-court-lordstown-data-center-moratorium-site-plan/https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/10/21/ohio-supreme-court-lordstown-data-center-moratorium-site-plan/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHollisIn a unanimous ruling on October 20, the Supreme Court of Ohio denied Bristolville 25 Developer's bid to force the Trumbull County village to review its four-building campus under pre-moratorium zoning. The court held that no vested right arises until a developer has met the requirements for a permit.https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/10/14/nrc-draft-eis-fermi-america-project-matador-ap1000-data-center/https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/10/14/nrc-draft-eis-fermi-america-project-matador-ap1000-data-center/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHollisThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission's first applicant-prepared environmental impact statement covers 4 GW of reactors meant to feed Project Matador's private grid in Carson County, Texas. Comments are due November 23; the campus's one binding tenant lease is for 222 MW and has not closed.https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/10/07/texas-puc-large-load-interconnection-rule-25-194-takes-effect/https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/10/07/texas-puc-large-load-interconnection-rule-25-194-takes-effect/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHollisThe Public Utility Commission of Texas published 16 TAC §25.194 in the October 2 Texas Register. Every new ERCOT load of 75 MW or more now posts security, discloses water and backup generation, and signs a standard agreement, with Batch Zero projects pulled in too.https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/09/30/ferc-suspends-pjm-reliability-backstop-procurement-cost-allocation/https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/09/30/ferc-suspends-pjm-reliability-backstop-procurement-cost-allocation/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHollisThe September 29 order in Docket ER26-3380 keeps PJM's $555/MW-day cap and 15-year terms, but sends cost allocation, buyer collateral and transmission-owner exit rules to a paper hearing. The offer window that was to open today did not.https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/09/23/virginia-executive-order-22-data-center-25-mw-threshold/https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/09/23/virginia-executive-order-22-data-center-25-mw-threshold/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHollisGov. Abigail Spanberger's data center order took effect September 18. It cuts large projects out of state site-readiness and fast-track programs and starts agency studies, while local approval, gas limits and cost allocation wait for the 2027 General Assembly.https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/09/16/stokes-county-project-delta-rezoning-power-conditions/https://loadfactornews.com/readings/2026/09/16/stokes-county-project-delta-rezoning-power-conditions/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHollisNorth Carolina county commissioners approved a hyperscale data center rezoning a second time. The posted conditions govern where generators sit and what fuel backup units burn, but not how much power the campus will draw or who pays to serve it.