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The IEA Says It Is Not Clear That Onsite Generation Necessarily Promises Data Centers a Faster Route to Market at Scale, in the Context of a Supply Crunch for Gas Turbines
The IEA's executive summary says reliable onsite gas-fired power for "critical and variable data centre load" requires overbuilding onsite generation relative to demand, and that, with a supply crunch for gas turbines, "it is not clear that onsite generation necessarily promises a faster route to market for data centres at scale."
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Google Cloud Says a Voltage Drop in the Utility's Feed, and the Breakers' Protective Action, Caused a Service Outage in One Zone
Google Cloud's incident report of July 25, 2026 names the root cause of an outage in its europe-west4-a zone as "a 3ms voltage drop in the power feed from the utility provider and subsequent utility breaker protective action."
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A Plant Next Door: New Era Energy & Digital's Power Purchase Agreement for Its Texas Data Center Project
A release by New Era Energy & Digital, dated September 21, 2026, says a subsidiary has entered into a power purchase agreement for the first phase of its data center project in Texas, with the power expected to be available in Q3 of 2027.
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Not Connected in Any Way to the Larger Grid: EPA's Clarification on Islanded Power Plants
In a memorandum of July 16, 2026, EPA told its regional administrators that it believes the Acid Rain Program does not apply to power generation facilities that are not connected in any way to the larger electricity grid. The memorandum says it is not a final determination for any particular facility.
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Preliminary Default CONE Values: PJM's Periodic Review of the Cost of New Entry
PJM's slides of July 8, 2026 for its Market Implementation Committee give preliminary default values for the gross cost of new entry, by resource type.
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Not Physically Connected to the Electric Power Grid: Ohio's Siting Board Approves a Gas Plant for an Adjacent Data Center
On June 26, 2026, the Ohio Power Siting Board approved the construction of a natural gas fired plant that will serve an adjacent data center and will not be physically connected to the grid, with battery storage "to accommodate fluctuations in demand and mitigate unplanned outages."
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Not the Result of Any Particular Event: Rising Forced Outage Rates in NERC's 2026 State of Reliability Overview
NERC's 2026 State of Reliability overview, dated June 24, 2026, reports that the weighted equivalent forced outage rate of conventional generation rose in 2025, with coal and combined-cycle units the primary drivers. Owners of some of the units cited equipment destruction and supply chain constraints that prolonged their outages.
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Not Approval of the Service Agreement: The Louisiana Commission's Order on Generation and Transmission for a Single Customer
An order of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, decided on August 20, 2025, approves a settlement on a utility's application to build generation and transmission to serve new load from a data center. The settlement finds the construction of three new generators prudent, subject to customer protection conditions and later prudence reviews, and says the certification is not approval of the utility's service agreement with the customer.
