(Investing) – WASHINGTON-U.S. President Donald Trump will nominate Laura Swett as chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the current head of the panel and a White House official said. Swett, an energy lawyer with Vinson & Elkins, represents pipeline and power companies in cases before FERC and has been an adviser to a chair and a commissioner, both Republicans, at
(Oil Price) – The future of data centers is about to make a huge draw on the power grid. According to a DOE-backed report from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, U.S. data center energy use could nearly triple by 2028, eating up as much as 12% of the country’s electricity. Why? Blame AI and its insatiable hunger for powerful chips and energy-guzzling
(BOE Report) – Major U.S. utilities are expected to spend heavily on upgrading their electric lines and grids over the next five years to cater to power-hungry sectors, although experts worry that their plans to raise rates sharply to offset higher costs may face regulatory hurdles. In the past few weeks, about nine utilities had raised their capital expenditure forecast by
(Oil & Gas 360) – As Artificial Intelligence (AI) expands to potentially revolutionize every aspect of human existence, the expected electrical demands required by the power devouring technology in its earliest stages present a formidable planning and financing challenge for utilities and other power plant developers. The so-called electrical boom, the result of everything from growing economies and populations, cloud computing
