Ken Sands
@kensands
Editor-in-chief @rtoinsider.bsky.social. Former top editor, @bloomberg.com, @cq, @chronicle.com, @spokesman. 🔌💡
Mark Christie, Re: FERC on PJM governance: "Do not settle for cosmetic half measures to get some ‘kumbaya’ moment that falls short of what is needed." 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/139339-chris... @yes-energy.bsky.social
In the weeds? Yes. Important? Also yes. The July voltage disturbance in Virginia provides strong evidence of the potential instability large data centers can introduce to a local grid when they move to quickly to disconnect during disturbances. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/138974-va-da...
47 stories in the past week on electricity generation, transmission, load regulation @rtoinsider.bsky.social , collected in a 74-page pdf. This is what you're missing if you don't subscribe. www.rtoinsider.com 🔌💡
Breaking news. Wisconsin Tells ATC to Start Over Again on $1.4B Tx Line to Power Stargate Data Center. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/138679-wisco... 564 revisions cited for muddied process.
Large Avista PSPS due to raging winds, fire moving quickly into suburban areas. This is a big deal. 🔌💡 www.myavista.com/safety/were-...
Case study in why transmission planning doesn't work. Good read. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/136855-lette...
Annual PJM auction results. High prices again. Low reserve margin. More of the same? 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/136577-pjm-c...
PJM has declared a capacity emergency and called all resources into service as loads exceeded 162 GW, fueled by a heat wave with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/135849-pjm-e...
DOE Appoints Travis Kavulla to Lead BPA www.rtoinsider.com/134836-doe-a...
Worth noting "The federal government will not always be so hostile to offshore wind, and now is the time to do the hard technical and policy work to prepare for the next phase of growth." 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/134490-repor...
Could be a big deal. The New York State Legislature has voted for what could become the nation’s first statewide moratorium on new data center development. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/133811-ny-le...
Mark Christie unleashed! Watch this fascinating webinar. No holds barred. He says Chris Wright's proposal to put FERC in charge of data center interconnections is not legal. 🔌💡 www.yesenergy.com/video/on-dem...
What's 100 miles among friends? Interconnection rights are a big deal. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/133489-ferc-...
NextEra-Dominion merger would be a huge deal, if it survives likely opposition. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/132418-nexte...
Ohio to FirstEnergy: pump the brakes on that rate increase due to data centers. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/132361-ohio-...
Appeals Court judges seem skeptical of the never-ending DOE "emergency" orders to keep coal plants open. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/132332-d-c-c...
AEP fires warning shot at SPP, PJM. Move faster on transmission interconnection or we might say "adios." 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/131650-aep-e... @yes-energy.bsky.social
Breaking news: PJM Elevates David Mills to President and CEO. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/131477-pjm-e... @yes-energy.bsky.social
The new "bad guys?" Data Center Developers: ‘Prepare to be Shouted at’ 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/130805-data-... @yes-energy.bsky.social
I don't write often, but data centers, whoa. What a challenge. We are living in interesting times. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/130510-edito...
FERC Demands $1.1 Billion in ‘Large and Brazen Fraud Case’ (I don't write much, but this was too big to pass up) 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/130337-ferc-...
Big trend in states: regulations emerging for data center electrcity usage. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/129790-xcel-... @yes-energy.bsky.social
Transmission owners want to eliminate competition to accommodate the data center explosion. Opponents say the plan is “tone deaf” to concerns about ratepayer affordability. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/129698-group...
Peter Kelly-Detwiler: White House pledges and data company commitments may protect us rate-paying pawns for only the first few limited moves in a vast multitrillion-dollar global game of high-stakes chess whose outcome is uncertain. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/128429-white...
Excellent panel: SPP's Lanny Nickell and CAISO's Eliott Mainzer polite but competitive as you would expect. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/127044-top-c... #empower26 @rtoinsider.bsky.social @yes-energy.bsky.social
Energy nerds: This was so good. Eliott Mainzer and Lanny Nickell in a Q&A with Robert Mullin of @rtoinsider.bsky.social @yes-energy.bsky.social at #empower26 in Boulder this morning. 🔌💡
NY Democrats introduce a bill calling for a 3-year moratorium on the siting and permitting of new data centers. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/125214-data-...
The Trump administration has been pushing natural gas as a means to meet winter reliability, especially in the Northeast where pipeline constraints require generators to burn oil during cold snaps. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/125216-doe-t...