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CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw — Who Will Pay for Data Centers’ Massive Power Bills? It’s Probably You.

As Big Tech companies build new data centers residential ratepayers could be on the hook for the massive new power demand.

March 25, 2025

Research Paper

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

New paper from the Harvard Electricity Law Initiative uncovers how utilities are forcing ratepayers to fund discounted rates for data centers.

March 5, 2025

Comments Filed

Electricity Law Initiative Bolsters Its Protest of PJM Utilities’ New Contract

ELI rebutted arguments filed by PJM and its member utilities about their proposed amendments

October 25, 2024

Comments Filed

Challenging the Hidden Clean Energy Tax

Electricity Law Initiative submits comments supporting FERC’s efforts to reduce costs for new power plants.

October 25, 2024

In the Media
NPR

The debate at the heart of new electricity transmission

August 6, 2024

Comments Filed

Electricity Law Initiative Protests Utilities’ Proposal to Control PJM Decisions

Protest exposes how the CTOA amendments enable the utilities to interfere and obstruct PJM’s decisionmaking processes.

July 22, 2024

Comments Filed

Electricity Law Initiative Files Requests for Rehearing and Clarification about FERC’s New Transmission Planning Rule

ELI’s urges FERC to clarify that regional planning must consider all transmission users’ needs and that this requirement is based on FERC’s long-standing comparability principle.

June 12, 2024

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw — FERC’s New Approach to Improving Transmission Investment

How the utility industry thinks about building new high-voltage transmission lines and how FERC is trying to push industry to develop more transmission to accommodate new, affordable, clean sources of electricity.

June 11, 2024

EELP News

April 10 Webinar: State Perspectives on Power Sector Changes

EELP panel discussion with state utility regulators and policymakers exploring state approaches to maintaining a reliable, affordable, and cleaner power system.

April 4, 2024