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Duke Energy's recent ROE request in North Carolina is the third-highest ROE request among all recent rate cases filed across the country. Duke would earn $713 million from its NC utilities and increase ratepayer costs by $64 million above its current ROE. #dukeenergy eq-research.com/eq-publicati...

Georgia Power's 2029-2031 All-Source RFP selections only include PPAs for natural gas resources. Of the 8 GW:

Company-owned natural gas: 3,692 MW

Company-owned BESS: 2,763 MW

Company-owned BESS + Solar: 350 MW

Natural gas PPAs: 1,195 MW

#naturalgas #rfp #solar #storage #georgia #georgiapower

TVA plans to deploy a Small Modular Reactor at TVA's Clinch River site near Oak Ridge, TN. Preliminary SMR site preparation could begin as soon as 2026. Careful planning is required to preserve the endangered mussel population. #smr #nuclear #energyregulation #TVA #GE #Hitachi

AI training facility load is not always flat, as data center load has been in past years. Here are more #datacenterdevelopments #DataCenter #DataCenterEnergy. eq-research.com/blog/eq-rese...

NC's budget bill allows utilities to recover power plant construction costs for plants that may not even be built and removes the 2030 interim target of a 70% reduction from 2005 levels, retaining only the 2050 carbon neutrality goal.

#Duke #legislation #NorthCarolina #carbon #emissions

Duke Energy Indiana’s $3.24 million EV Make-Ready Credit Program is now available to customers who install L2 EV chargers. Standard max credit = $662; Low-Income max credit = $994; homebuilder max credit = $150 per home.

#EVs #electricvehicles #EVcredit #EVcharging #EVincentives #DukeEnergyIndiana

States are changing what counts as a clean energy resource to include things like natural gas & landfill gas (Tennessee), and nuclear (Colorado). Is this meant to help utilities stay on track with carbon goals?

#legislation #cleanenergy #emissions #nuclear #naturalgas #carbon

And that's just the beginning! By 2035, Minnesota Power plans to add 400 MW of wind, 100 MW of storage, and over 1,000 MW of natural gas capacity to replace the Boswell Energy Center, its last coal plant.

Minnesota Power aims for 80% renewables by 2030 by adding 500 MWh of storage, acquiring 100 MW of demand response, and expanding DG and EV programs.
#Minnesota #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #IRP #WindEnergy #SolarEnergy #energypolicytracking #IRP #EV #demandresponse

A quarter of TVA's existing power plant fleet will retire or expire by 2035.

#TVA #Energy #IRP #IRPasadataservice

Evergy filed a new data center tariff in Missouri and Kansas that takes a surgical approach to cost allocation through the use of riders for everything from renewables and demand response to nuclear.
#datacenters #missouri #kansas #energy #datacenterdevelopments

In Connecticut, state lawmakers proposed a bill that would direct regulatory agencies to evaluate the impact of large data centers on electric distribution system reliability.
#datacenters #connecticut #energy