Illinois HB1700 expands state authority over renewable energy siting disputes, signaling a broader shift toward accelerating project development.

SEIA's new interactive map puts solar's farmland footprint against suburban sprawl and golf courses as Congress debates solar's role in the Farm Bill.

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Power is no longer just an operating cost. In 2026, electricity availability is shaping investment decisions, facility expansion, and corporate growth.

PJM and Talen Energy have filed at FERC to extend the Brandon Shores and H.A. Wagner reliability-must-run agreement to May 2031, citing transmission delays driven largely by data center load growth.

E2 tracked nearly 8 GW of canceled clean energy capacity and $13 billion in abandoned investment in Q1 2026 alone. The hidden cost is what those projects were supposed to deliver.

Global energy transition investment hit $2.3 trillion in 2025. But capital is concentrating in data centers and a few large managers, leaving most clean energy deals competing for less.

Federal permitting blocked 11 GW of clean energy in one year. The interconnection queue holds 2,060 GW more. Operations teams with project-tied energy timelines carry direct exposure.

Steel, copper, and grid material costs have reset project economics across clean energy and infrastructure. Finance teams holding 2022-era models need to close the gap before H2 capital decisions land.

Vermont's governor vetoed H.727, the Vermont Sustainable Data Centers Act, on May 28. The House failed to override the next day, leaving the state reliant on existing regulatory tools.

Xos launched a 2.5MWh containerized energy storage system targeting AI data centers and industrial sites stuck behind three-to-seven-year grid interconnection timelines.

DartPoints acquired a 343,000-square-foot campus in Lexington, Kentucky, with an owned substation and a path to 70 MW, targeting AI, hyperscale, and neo-cloud demand.

Anderon will initially focus on wafer fabrication for superconducting qubit technology and supporting electronics, with plans to expand into other quantum computing approaches over time.

The move toward Iceland, Norway, and northern Canada is being driven by cooling physics and long-term climate trajectory as much as by renewable energy access.

Mexico's CFE declared grid emergencies three times in summer 2024 and reserve margins hit 3% in May of that year. For manufacturers who relocated to Mexico, summer reliability risk was not in the original location analysis.

Wildfire smoke and ash degrade Alberta and BC transmission infrastructure far beyond fire proximity. Industrial operators in western Canada face a reliability risk window that starts earlier each year.

FERC approved PJM's updated transmission cost assignments on May 15, covering 358 new reliability projects effective June 14, 2026, with a 30-day compliance filing required on cost allocation methodology.

NERC puts 13 of 23 North American grid regions at elevated or high risk. When mutual aid fails because neighboring regions are stressed simultaneously, continuity plans built for single-region events break down.

The leading edge of corporate energy procurement in 2026 is not a sustainability conversation. It is an infrastructure conversation.

Duke Energy applied for DOE loans on May 11 to lower financing costs on its $103 billion five-year capital plan serving six states with fast-growing energy demand.