NEWS: Here’s how New England is prepping its grid for the data center era.

The command: ISO-NE has unveiled its ideas to comply with the first step of FERC’s show-cause orders: ensuring it’ll have enough generation to serve new (and existing) large loads. But, as the ISO noted, the region “has not yet encountered significant load growth” from data centers and other mammoth facilities.

Nevertheless, the grid operator proposes: 1) requiring large loads to “bring your own new generation” (BYONG) and 2) excluding large loads from system load forecasts—this could avoid inflating capacity costs, an issue that has hit the PJM footprint particularly hard.