The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently submitted a staff report to Congress on the North American Reliability Corporation’s Interregional Transfer Capability Study. FERC declined Congress’s invitation to recommend statutory changes in response to the ITC study.

According to an analysis issued on Feb. 26 by the Electric Power Research Institute, data centers could consume 9%-17% of U.S. electricity generation by 2030 -- more than double current use -- with eight states seeing much higher percentages.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Feb. 25 announced the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing has closed a historic $26.5 billion loan package that will support two wholly owned subsidiaries of Southern Company -- Georgia Power and Alabama Power.

The Florida Municipal Power Agency recently hosted Department of Energy Deputy Secretary James Danly and Rebecca Michael, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Energy Infrastructure Security at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, at the Sand Lake Energy Center in Florida.

After successful efforts to reduce speculation from the public power utility’s power “queue” -- or waiting list for connection -- Grant PUD’s Large Power Solutions group is working to reconcile transmission capacity, in collaboration with the PUD’s Transmission Planning group, after "cleansing" the queue.