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Effective March 10, the Ontario government has applied a 25 per cent surcharge on all electricity exports to the United States as part of the province’s initial suite of retaliatory measures to U.S. tariffs on Canada.
Utility regulators in Minnesota recently ruled that a Certificate of Need is required for emergency backup generators at Amazon Data Services Inc.’s proposed data center in Becker, Minnesota.
The Bonneville Power Administration has issued its day-ahead market draft policy direction that concludes BPA should participate in a day-ahead market and pursue participation in Southwest Power Pool’s Markets+, BPA said on March 5.
CIM Group, a real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, lender and developer, and Novva Data Centers, a data center company, announced on March 5 that they recently closed a new commitment of $2 billion in financing from J.P. Morgan and Starwood Property Trust to complete the build-out of Novva’s 175-MW Salt Lake City data center.
The U.S. Supreme Court on March 4 issued a 5-4 decision in which it held that the Environmental Protection Agency lacks authority under the Clean Water Act to set restrictions in water pollutant discharge permits that achieve an “end-result” for receiving waters, finding that it is the agency’s responsibility to determine the steps a permittee must take to ensure water quality standards are met.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water on March 5 said it will issue a request for proposals for 100-MW of solar generation and 80-MW of utility scale battery storage on March 14.
Effective Feb. 28, 2025, The Williams Companies entered into an agreement with an unnamed large, investment-grade company to provide onsite natural gas and power generation infrastructure for the customer, Williams said in a recent filing made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
PJM Interconnection has launched the new NextGen planning tool, which is designed to be a one-stop shop for stakeholders and PJM planners that will further streamline the generation interconnection process, it said on March 4.