Echoing what Southwest Power Pool President Lanny Nickell recently warned about the ability to meet growing electricity demands, largely due to the swelling data center industry, others expressed the same concerns at a recent meeting of regulators in Colorado. About 75 electric transmission industry officials gathered last week in Colorado Springs at a meeting …
The rapid growth of data centers across the U.S. has electric grid operators concerned about the ability to meet the expanding demand for electrical power. One of the latest planned data centers will be in Conway, Arkansas where the city council approved a memorandum of understanding this week with an unnamed Fortune 100 company. …
The fight by some Oklahoma landowners against transmission corridors and the spread of wind and solar farms includes opposition to the use of eminent domain. Other states are facing the same battles, including South Dakota where Summit Carbon Solutions sued more than 200 farmers and landowners for a $9 billion carbon capture pipeline …
