Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission unanimously approved the I&M / Google demand-response agreement for the $2B Fort Wayne campus. Google agreed to cut load when the grid is strained and to share clean-energy capacity with the system; I&M will discount Google's electric rate during curtailment events. The order language explicitly cites the deal as removing the need for grid upgrades that other ratepayers would have funded, with Google's bill helping offset rates for smaller customers.
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Why it matters
This is the cleanest precedent yet for the firm-equivalent-mw-underwrite.md / interruptible-load-derate.md thesis: a state regulator just stamped 'curtailment commitment in exchange for tariff discount, transmission upgrade waived' as the standard structure for hyperscaler interconnection. Add to interruptible-load-derate.md as the first IURC-approved template alongside the ERCOT PCLR work. This is the exact regulatory primitive Cliff's de-rate calculator needs to price — what's the $/MW-yr discount for X% curtailment availability, and how does that compare to the $50K/MW interconnection-fee path in TX or the cost-shift path in VA. Open question for outreach: does this template extend to AEP / Indiana Michigan Power's pending Amazon and Meta filings (also IURC-jurisdictional)? Worth a 1-day read of the IURC docket.
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