Accelerating Better Decision Making

Regular readers know that Halcyon does not shy away from the energy sector alphabet soup. We’ve got another one for you: FERC’s proposed ANOPR in docket RM26-4-000, Interconnection of Large Loads to the Interstate Transmission System. For those not so deeply in the soup: that’s the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s proposed Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, meant to speed up and otherwise ease the interconnection of significant new sources of electricity demand in the US grid - mostly, but not exclusively, data centers. At the moment, 175 unique organizations have filed notices or comments in the docket. More will be coming, as reply comments will be filed through December 5. Parsing the comments already received is an unstructured data problem of the sort that Halcyon regularly tackles for customers. We have identified six core topic areas across proceedings and analyzed each commenter’s position on each topic. Here is a preview of two areas. The first concerns the 20...

Tomorrow, millions of people in the US will skip their Thursday workaday routines in favor of lounging at home, watching TV, and, above all else, eating. People eat every day, of course, but Thanksgiving also means cooking, and cooking at home, and even more specifically, roasting something very large, at high heat, in an oven, for hours. That energy, or more specifically, that electricity, comes mainly from the grid.