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WHITE PAPER
The Large Load Imperative:
Modernizing Interconnection for a Data-Driven Grid
Interconnection is becoming the gating factor for large load development.
Explore the regulatory shifts, planning challenges, and technology changes redefining how data centers, industrial facilities, and other large loads connect to the grid.
What You'll Learn
This White Paper breaks down the key regulatory, planning and technology shifts reshaping large load interconnection in 2026 and beyond.
Regulatory Shift
Why large loads are being regulated like generation with FERC Order 2023-style requirements.
The Rise of Local Hubs
How Transmission Owners are proactively identifying strategic locations for large load growth.
Integrated Planning
How consolidated planning models are breaking down silos and driving smarter outcomes.
About GridUnity
GridUnity® accelerates grid interconnection by streamlining and automating complex, manual processes that delay energy deployment. We help utilities, transmission owners, system operators, and developers collaborate more effectively and engage all system participants in generation and load interconnection at the bulk-power and distribution system levels. GridUnity’s curated data approach and intelligently applied AI changes today’s Interconnection process to tomorrow’s Intelligent-connection process. Trusted by North America’s leading utilities and system operators, GridUnity customers serve over 50% of the U.S. population.