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A decision in the Consumers Energy case could set a precedent for legal challenges to Department of Energy orders keeping fossil-fueled power plants from retiring.

The guidelines call for utilities to charge large load customers for upgrades that “would not have been needed ‘but for’ the interconnection” of that customer, “irrespective of whether other customers will benefit” from the infrastructure.

Community resistance to data centers is intensifying. Residents and local officials in states like Indiana, New York and Georgia cite a range of concerns: noise, emissions, water consumption, visual impact, land use and the fear that large new loads will require costly new grid infrastructure — with those costs passed on to ratepayers.

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The state plans to scrap a 2030 goal that sought a 40% reduction in emissions and replace it with a 2040 goal that aims for a 60% reduction.