Data-centre load growth, interconnection queues, transmission and curtailment.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory01 Jun 2026
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's annual survey of US interconnection queues finds about 2,061 GW of capacity awaiting grid connection at the end of 2025 — roughly 1,312 GW of generation and 749 GW of storage. The composition shifted sharply during…
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity01 Jul 2026
The Department of Energy's draft 2026 National Transmission Needs Study assesses present and expected transmission constraints across US regions. It records roughly 85,000 circuit-miles of transmission above 69 kV newly built, rebuilt or upgraded between 2016 and 2024, at a…
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)01 Nov 2024
NERC's congressionally mandated study is the first assessment of transfer capability between US transmission planning regions carried out under a common set of assumptions. Its central conclusion is that an additional 35 GW of interregional transfer capability would strengthen energy…
Nature Energy (Springer Nature)18 Dec 2025
This two-page Nature Energy policy brief compares two ways of setting interregional electricity transfer requirements for the US grid. A uniform 30 percent requirement applied to every region spreads new transmission broadly across the country and delivers an average reduction…
Grid Strategies LLC01 Nov 2025
Grid Strategies' third annual review of US utility load forecasts finds projected demand growth revised upward again. The five-year forecast of utility peak load growth has risen more than sixfold over three years, from 24 GW to 166 GW. Electricity…
The Brattle Group (prepared for GridLab and the Utilize Coalition)01 Mar 2026
This Brattle Group report argues that the affordability problem in US electricity is partly a utilisation problem. Because the system is sized for infrequent demand spikes, less than half its capacity is used across the year: average US generation capacity…
Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG)01 Feb 2026
Americans for a Clean Energy Grid grades ten US transmission regions on the quality of their planning and development practices. This edition reports incremental improvement across most regions, driven by reforms to regional planning and by FERC Order No. 1920,…
Latitude Media28 Apr 2026
Latitude Media examines how much of the announced US data centre pipeline can physically be connected to the grid. It sets roughly 780 GW of announced data centre projects against a current US peak load of about 759 GW, illustrating…
Utility Dive (Informa TechTarget)22 Jun 2026
ERCOT has approved an initial framework for processing very large electricity loads seeking to connect to the Texas grid, in response to a queue of about 438 GW of pending requests, close to 90 percent of which come from data…
IEEE Spectrum24 Jun 2026
IEEE Spectrum reports on directives issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on 18 June 2026 to six regional transmission organisations, pressing them to speed up the connection of large data centre loads. The orders set two deadlines: 30 days…
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