Whats Happening in Energy

What's Happening in Energy - April 18

Written by Nat Bullard | May 29, 2025 1:48:16 AM

What's Happening in Energy highlights the most interesting findings from public utility commission filings.

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What's Happening in Energy — April 18
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In Missouri (new state!), Evergy has issued a substantial update to its 2024 triennial integrated resource plan. The basics: load growth, a lot of it, for the first time in more than a decade, and most (if not all) of it from a single large customer. It’s noteworthy enough that I made a chart:

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Also in Missouri, and not coincidental, is a new-ish application from Evergy “for Approval of New and Modified Tariffs for Service to Large Load Customers.” Plenty of data center operators are weighing in. 
Docket profile 

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A rarity (these days) in another newly-covered state, Nevada: a utility (NV Energy) is lowering rates (for natural gas). 
Docket profile
Filing

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Another new state! Wisconsin — where proceedings to approve or deny a 1,100 megawatt gas combustion turbine project are underway. Not shown here, but indicated through repeated references to large load customers — another factory- or data center-driven grid expansion. 
Docket profile

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In Oregon, Portland General Electric has filed its 2026 annual power cost update tariff. Here is the kickoff document (236 pages).
Docket profile

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Still in the Pacific Northwest: another Washington utility, NW Natural Gas, tackles the accounting required for tariffs on Canadian natural gas imports.  

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The Arizona Electric Power Cooperative is raising $94 million in long-term financing. This is a new proceeding, so you can follow it from the start at the Docket profile or jump right into the 352-page Application document.

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Also in Arizona, the Columbia Electric Cooperative has opened a proceeding to revise its net metering tariff to include batteries. Not the world’s biggest electric system, but worth reading to see how much has changed since the tariff was established in 2010. 
Docket profile  
Filing

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A useful docket in Virginia concerning data center-driven electricity rate increases. Hundreds of comments filed in the past week!
Docket profile 

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And lastly in New York State, a transcript worth reading on Consolidated Edison’s contentious rate case.
Filing