Each Range share converts into 0.987 EQT shares under a definitive merger agreement announced on 26 October 2026. The $50bn in the announcement is the combined company's enterprise value, not the price EQT is paying, which the release does not disclose.
NEXTDC cut FY27 net revenue guidance to A$475m to A$500m from A$615m to A$640m on 21 October 2026 after its electricity distributor suspended network works. Shares fell 42 per cent the same day, their lowest since 2018.
AEP agreed on 19 October 2026 to study 960 megawatts of small modular reactors at a retired Indiana coal site, with Amazon funding development and contracting for the power. There is no final investment decision, no disclosed cost and no in-service date.
NERC announced on 15 October 2026 that Project 2026-02, a package of three new reliability standards for data centres, AI facilities and cryptocurrency mines, had passed its final stakeholder ballot. It now goes to NERC's Board of Trustees and then to FERC, which ordered the standards filed by 31 December 2026.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed Order No. 202-26-50 on 12 October 2026, letting PJM run named units past their environmental permit limits and direct data centres onto backup generation before firm load shedding. It expires on 16 October.
FERC's order in docket ER26-3515 rejects the mechanism that would have let data centres join the largest US grid before matching generation existed, on the grounds that it sets retail rates and dictates which retail customers are curtailed. It is the second PJM large-load proposal the commission has sent back in six weeks.
DOE intervened in FERC docket ER26-3380 to argue that the cost of generation built to serve new data centres must not fall on existing PJM customers. PJM pulled the 6.8 GW procurement on 30 September and now plans a revised filing by 29 October.
MISO's Large Load Addition Resource Study would be open to loads above 200 MW with generation in the same local resource zone. Up to 10 applications per study period, non-refundable deposits, and a decision requested from FERC by 2 December.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on 1 October 2026 rejected TransAlta's plan to recover $19.9 million spent keeping the 730 MW Centralia coal plant in Washington available under a Department of Energy emergency order. The unit generated no electricity through July.
AI data centres are purpose-built facilities that house dense clusters of accelerators, with power, cooling and networking designed for training and serving large models.
