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INDEPENDENT RESEARCH · LAW / ENERGY / INFRASTRUCTUREUS × CHINA / FIELDNOTES No. 01

SHARED TOPICS / RESEARCH ATLAS

Grid access

One question, across law, projects, contracts and research.

New evidence · 19 October 2026

Grid access Cost & risk Power supply Flexibility & reliability Land & permits Environment & efficiency Finance & ownership Research methods

LAW

31 documents

United States · 1.1.1

PJM co-location order

United States · 1.1.2

PJM large-load show-cause order

United States · 1.1.3

SPP large-load show-cause order

United States · 1.1.4

NYISO large-load show-cause order

United States · 1.1.5

MISO large-load show-cause order

United States · 1.1.6

CAISO large-load show-cause order

United States · 1.1.7

ISO-NE large-load show-cause order

United States · 1.1.14

2026 draft National Transmission Needs Study

United States · 1.1.18

Federal Power Act jurisdiction, rates, adequacy, emergency authority and review

United States · 1.1.19

DOE section 403 direction and attached proposed large-load ANOPR

United States · 1.1.24

PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., Order Rejecting Amended Interconnection Service Agreement

United States · 1.1.25

PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., Order Addressing Arguments Raised on Rehearing and Compliance

United States · 1.1.29

Notice of PJM partial co-location compliance filing

United States · 1.3.1

AEP Ohio data-center application and tariff implementation guidance

United States · 1.4.1

Texas S.B. 6 large-load statute

United States · 1.4.3

ERCOT Large Load Forecasting Criteria

United States · 1.4.4

Governor of Texas data-center audit directive

United States · 1.4.5

Batch Zero Conditional Classification issued to Transmission and/or Distribution Service Providers

United States · 1.5.4

Virginia SCC Final Order adopting large-load Rate Schedule GS-5

Notice on Orderly Development of Single-User Green-Power Direct Connection

Notice on Orderly Development of Multi-User Green-Power Direct Connection

China · 2.2.11

Notice on GEC issuance for non-public-grid renewable projects

China · 2.2.13

Implementation Opinions on East Data–West Compute and the National Integrated Computing Network

China · 2.2.23

Electricity Law of the People's Republic of China

China · 2.2.24

Regulation on Electricity Supply and Use

China · 2.2.25

Rules on Electricity Supply Business

State Council General Office Notice on Standardizing Urban Utility Charges

Nanjing Operating Measures for Government-Enterprise Shared Electricity Connection Works

China · 2.11.1

Xinjiang's first multi-user green-power direct-connection projects announced

China · 2.12.1

Notice issuing Yunnan's Implementation Plan for Promoting Green-Power Direct-Connection Construction

China · 2.13.1

Zhengzhou Implementing Rules for Electricity Connection Works (Trial)

PROJECT

2 documents

United States · 1.1.1

AWS / Talen Susquehanna Data Campus

Zhongjin Wulanchabu Zero-Carbon Compute Base

CONTRACT

5 documents

United States · 1.1.3

Alliance Cloud Services–neocloud 20 MW MSA

United States · 1.2.1

TeraWulf–Kentucky Power 500 MW ESA and 1 GW LOA

United States · 1.5.1

Talen–AWS nuclear PPA and BTM-to-front-of-meter restructuring

NDRC/NEA 2025 single-user green direct-connection architecture

NDRC/NEA 2026 multi-user green direct-connection architecture

ACADEMIC

10 documents

United States · 1.1.1

Allocating Electricity

United States · 1.1.2

Extracting Profits from the Public: How Utility Ratepayers Are Paying for Big Tech's Power

United States · 1.1.3

Policy and Cost Allocation Considerations for Large Electric Load Interconnections: Emerging Policy Trends in Rate Structures, Interconnection, and Cost Impacts on Other System Users

United States · 1.6.1

Speed to Power: Solutions for Accelerating Large Load Connections

United States · 1.6.3

Governing the Energy Bottleneck

United States · 1.6.5

The Role of Flexible Connection in Accelerating Load Interconnection in Distribution Networks

United States · 1.6.6

To Defer or To Shift? The Role of AI Data Center Flexibility on Grid Interconnection

United States · 1.7.2

Climate Resilience and Private Law's Duty to Adapt

Optimization of Computing-Power and Electricity Synergy Considering Diverse Green-Electricity Consumption Modes and Spatiotemporal Flexibility

Global & comparative · 3.3.1

A net-grid-benefit test for interconnecting AI data centres

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