Energy & Climate

Is Your Pending Data-Center Tariff Typical? A 27-Tariff Benchmark

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Among 27 coded written tariff terms, minimum take clusters at 80-85 percent: the zero-baseline count chart has 1 at 70 percent, 3 at 75, 14 at 80, 5 at 85, 3 at 90 and 1 at 100, with a median of 80 percent. The 100 percent row is a Texas proposed rule; adopted tariffs and proposals are combined, coding definitions differ, and these terms do not measure performance.

For the state utility commission staffer or consumer advocate who must judge a pending large-load tariff, and for the developer’s finance lead who must price against one. It is a data center tariff benchmark: the central terms of 27 US large-load tariffs, orders and filings, so you can see where a proposal sits. Bottom line … Read more

FERC Starts Computational-Load Registry Work: What RD26-7-000 Requires

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Data center and bulk-power-system diagram showing FERC's direction to NERC to develop computational-load registry criteria and reliability standards by December 31, 2026.

On July 16, 2026, FERC ordered NERC to develop Reliability Standards and registry criteria for computational-load entities, a new regulatory category that did not previously exist. The deadline is December 31, 2026. This brief covers the institutional creation of the category; it is the companion to the live large-load tariff tracker, not a duplicate of it.