Category: North America News

The US Department of Energy (DOE) plans to offer USD1.9 billion to help fund 31 grid-improvement projects that are expected to add 23 GW of capacity to the transmission system, as announced on September 24, 2026. The funding...

The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) has approved Commonwealth Edison’s (ComEd) plan to construct a new transmission line—the Kishwaukee Area Reliability Extension (KARE) project—in DeKalb County, south of the city of DeKalb....

A New Mexico senator introduced a Bill—called the Grid Resiliency Tax Credit Act— on September 23, 2026, to establish an investment tax credit (ITC) for installation of regionally significant electric power transmission lines,...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on September 22, 2026, rejected Commonwealth Edison’s (ComEd) “notice of cancellation” of a transmission security agreement (TSA) for a 1.8 GW, USD20 billion data centre...

New England states on September 21, 2026, urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to approve a complaint that seeks to deny Maine’s transmission owners (TOs) — including Avangrid’s Central Maine Power — of an extra...

On September 17, 2026, the New York Public Service Commission (NYPSC) approved Propel NY Energy’s 90-mile (145-km) transmission line aiming to boost clean energy flows, including from offshore wind (OSW), between Long Island and...

A public hearing on the Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link (MARL), a proposed 107.5-mile (173-km), 500 kV transmission line that includes the Woodside electrical substation in Clear Brook, was held on September 16, 2026, at...

Virginia’s governor has unveiled the ‘Data Center Accountability Framework’, a comprehensive package of legislative proposals, and signed Executive Order 22 on September 18, 2026, designed to clamp down on the rapidly expanding...

The US House of Representatives passed the Ratepayer Protection Act — a Bill designed to prevent data centres and other large computational loads from shifting their grid and power generation costs onto existing...

The American Transmission Company (ATC)—that builds, operates and maintains the electric power grid in portions of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois—filed a revised application with the Public Service Commission (PSC)...

Shareholders of Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy have approved a USD67 billion deal that would combine the utilities, with NextEra as the owner, after special meetings held on September 3, 2026. Further, on September 14, 2026,...

Great Basin Transmission, an affiliate of LS Power, held a ground-breaking ceremony in Ely, Nevada on September 3, 2026, to mark the start of construction on the Southwest Intertie Project-North (SWIP-North), a 285-mile (459-km)...

As part of its approved capital plans, FortisBC Inc.—a regulated utility that owns and operates four regulated hydroelectric generating plants and approximately 7,380 km of transmission and distribution (T&D) power...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has completed conditional classifications for 362 large load interconnection requests totalling 191.8 GW of capacity under its Batch Zero process. Following delays for data...

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) approved the Howard-to-Solstice 765 kV transmission line, with modifications, on September 11, 2026. The line, a project of utility companies AEP Texas and CPS Energy, is set to run...

At its monthly open meeting on September 10, 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved NERC Reliability Standard CIP-014-4 (Physical Security), which will update protections for electric...