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New Ways to Power Data Centers and Other Large Energy Users
How Bring-Your-Own and Clean Transition Tariffs could meet the energy needs of large customers while reducing risks for other ratepayers.
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Large Load Tariffs Dashboard
This page provides relevant research and tools for state public utilities commissions, advocates, and utilities on large load tariffs — special contracts, rates, and service agreements between utilities and large load customers.
Electricity
Winter Storm Fern Highlights the Need for More Resilient Transmission
How stronger transmission and modernizing the grid could reduce outages, lower costs, and protect communities during extreme weather.
Electricity
The State of Utility Planning, 2025 Q4
A review of all integrated resource plans for electric utilities across the United States to evaluate progress toward a clean and secure energy future.
Electricity
Reality Check: How to Grow the Grid, but Not Electricity Costs
US utilities are building $1.4 trillion worth of new infrastructure over the next five years. But can they do so without sending up prices? There are ways to better match the increasing demand for electricity…
Electricity
How to Leverage Cost Allocation to Enable Rapid, Affordable, and Equitable Electrification
Regulators can design fair, forward-looking cost allocation to fund proactive grid upgrades and accelerate equitable electrification.
Electricity
Rewiring Utility Planning for the Age of Rapid Load Growth
With growing demand, faster adaptive planning can prevent costly overbuilds, missed investments, and delays that slow the clean energy transition.
Electricity
Large Energy Users Want Power. Here’s How to Protect Other Ratepayers from the Costs.
Designing large load tariffs with strong safeguards can reduce the risk of cost shifting, but adoption of them varies.
Electricity
How Virtual Power Plants Can Help the United States Win the AI Race
Unlocking the capacity of virtual power plants can help big tech power data centers, fast.
Electricity
As the Government Shutdown Freezes Low-Income Assistance Funds, PUCs Can Help
As LIHEAP funding stalls, millions face energy insecurity; PUCs act to prevent shutoffs and protect struggling families.