•The Canadian federal government has identified five specific interprovincial/territorial intertie locations (British Columbia–Yukon, Alberta–British Columbia, Alberta–Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan–Manitoba, and Prince Edward Island) as part of its national grid strategy.
•This shift indicates Canada's electricity strategy is moving from broad clean energy and grid capacity goals to concrete, location-specific infrastructure planning, signaling a more actionable policy environment for developers.
•The naming of these intertie locations points to the initial stages of significant new transmission infrastructure projects, creating potential development opportunities for both generation and transmission assets.
•Texas PUC has approved new 'ride-through' rules specifically for data centers, mandating they withstand certain grid disturbances.
•The new rules are a direct regulatory response to increasing grid reliability concerns caused by the interconnection of large computational loads.
•Data centers connecting in Texas will now face updated interconnection requirements, impacting their design, operational protocols, and potentially increasing compliance costs to ensure grid stability.