Today’s headlines: A rare grid warning, shipping carbon tax work continues, and more

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GRID

• The North American Electric Reliability Corp. issues a rare Level 3 warning, its most urgent, about data centers’ potential to overwhelm the grid. (news release, Latitude Media)

EMISSIONS

• International Maritime Organization member nations agree to keep working toward adopting a global carbon fee on shipping amid pressure from the U.S. and fossil fuel companies to abandon the plan. (Associated Press)

WIND

• The California Energy Commission will investigate the federal government’s agreement to refund a California offshore wind project for bailing on its leases. (Associated Press)

• GE Vernova claims Vineyard Wind won’t face irreparable harm as it tries to exit its turbine maintenance contract with the offshore wind farm. (New Bedford Light)

NUCLEAR

• Brookfield Asset Management partners with The Nuclear Co. to restart construction of two AP1000 reactors at South Carolina’s V.C. Summer Nuclear Station, which developers abandoned nearly a decade ago. (Bloomberg)

• GE Vernova announces a partnership with nuclear startup Blue Energy to build a ​“gas-plus-nuclear” power plant to supply a Texas data center, which will burn natural gas to finance construction of a nuclear station. (E&E News)

BATTERIES

• California discharged a record 12 GW of power from its battery arrays at one time in late March, showing how the state’s grid storage resources are still expanding despite headwinds. (Inside Climate News)

MIDDLE EAST ENERGY SHOCK

• The White House says it’s not considering a gasoline tax holiday even as the nation’s average price per gallon approaches $4.50. (Axios)

CLIMATE

• The DOJ sues Minnesota over the state’s lawsuit that seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate damages, saying it intrudes on federal authority, though courts have so far rejected similar challenges to other states’ climate accountability suits. (Minnesota Star Tribune, E&E News)