Bring your own power
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Grid interconnection Connecting large loads
FERC Accepts PJM's Large Load Definition and Registry, and Rejects Its Other Proposed Tariff Revisions
FERC accepted PJM's definition of a Large Load and its Large Load Registry, effective October 12, 2026, and rejected PJM's remaining proposed tariff revisions, among them the Interim Resource Adequacy Service and the rules for Bring Your Own New Capacity.
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Grid interconnection Connecting large loads
New Capacity, or Reduce When Called: PJM Answers the Protests
On September 23, PJM answered the comments and protests on its proposal for new large loads. In the answer's words, such a load, or the entity serving it, must arrange for new capacity. Absent that, it must reduce its energy demands when called upon during system emergencies.
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Grid interconnection Connecting large loads
Studied Together: ERCOT's New Batch Process for Connecting Large Electricity Users
An explainer by the grid operator ERCOT, dated June 18, 2026, describes how it will study connection requests from large electricity users together, in batches, and two optional pathways for users that bring their own generation or let ERCOT reduce their power consumption.
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Grid interconnection Connecting large loads
Bring Your Own New Generation, or Connect and Manage: PJM's Board Letter on Large Load Additions
On January 16, 2026, PJM's Board of Managers wrote to stakeholders with its decision on large load additions. The letter encourages what it calls voluntary Bring Your Own New Generation. Where a load serving entity identifies a shortfall of new generation against its forecasted load additions, it directs the development of a framework under which that demand would be subject to curtailment before pre-emergency demand response. It also directs staff to develop a proposal for a backstop capacity procurement.
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Grid interconnection Connecting large loads
Identified For and Limited to Serving a Large Load: FERC Accepts SPP's Processes for High Impact Large Loads
On January 14, 2026, the federal regulator accepted, subject to condition, the Southwest Power Pool's new tariff processes for High Impact Large Loads and for generation that supports them. The order describes SPP's proposed generation process as significantly faster than its standard one, and says its requests will not be considered higher queued than those already waiting.
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Grid interconnection Connecting large loads
Generation and/or Storage Capacity: Ireland's Regulator on a New Connection Policy for Data Centers
On December 12, 2025, Ireland's Commission for Regulation of Utilities published its decision on a new electricity connection policy for data centers. Its release says new data centers will continue to be required to provide generation and/or storage capacity to match their maximum import demand, and sets a minimum share of their annual demand to be met with additional renewable electricity projects.
