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Interconnection queues, tax credits and the pipeline — the constraints that bind after zoning clears.
Market Trend · 8 September 2026
On August 26 the White House declared a national emergency over the equipment inside the grid — inverters, transformers, batteries. The rules that define the ban won't exist until December. The manufacturers aren't waiting for them.
Market Trend · 28 August 2026
Provo, East Vincent, Naperville, San Marcos, Rochelle. Every recent data-center refusal we can point to was handed down by a city council or a township — inside counties that look unremarkable from a county-level screen.
Market Trend · 20 August 2026
Governor Abbott froze roughly 250–300 grid-connection requests representing about 200 GW — more than twice ERCOT's record peak. For the first time the binding constraint on a data center isn't a county board. It's the queue.
Quarterly Recap · 4 July 2026
The second quarter of 2026 was the quarter Virginia stopped being a county-by-county story and became a statewide one.
Weekly Analysis · 4 July 2026
If you develop utility-scale solar, two dates have been circled on your calendar all year. This week, both of them passed within seventy-two hours of each other — and they push you in opposite directions.
Field Note · 21 June 2026
Virginia's state budget — normally a fight about schools and Medicaid — has become, this month, a fight about data centers. Two threads are converging on the same deadline.
County ordinances and board resolutions, read 11 October 2026.
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