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Senate confirms FERC nominees, restoring agency to full commissioner complement
“The [agency] works best when it has five members, so I look forward to welcoming them … so we can work collaboratively to ensure reliable, affordable and sustainable energy,” FERC Chairman Phillips said.
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EV adoption falls to its lowest point since 2021: JD Power
Meanwhile, electric vehicles are more available than they’ve ever been.
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Basin Electric faces $471M in customer rebates for putting nonutility expenses in rates
A FERC administrative law judge also found Basin Electric was imprudent when it failed to consider replacing coal-fired power plants with potentially less expensive generation.
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Lawmakers, speakers spar over benefits of IRA’s manufacturing boom
Legislators and experts disagreed on the long-term merits of subsidies, with IRA critics questioning if the clean energy boom would amount to a “sugar high.”
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How can more companies use 24/7 clean energy? Hourly matching is ‘not the hard part,’ analysts say
Decarbonization leaders say we have the technology to match emissions with energy generation on an hourly basis. Insufficient data and renewable generation represent the real barriers, they say.
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Local opposition to renewable energy projects ‘widespread and growing’: Columbia University report
The report tracks 395 local restrictions on renewable energy development, with 55 of those emerging in the last year.
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Q&A
Budderfly’s CEO on accelerating clean technology adoption in commercial buildings
Al Subbloie discusses the slow adoption of ground-source heat pumps and highlights the benefits of outsourcing energy management and using software to boost efficiency and cut carbon emissions.
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House Judiciary Committee: Climate groups and activists ‘colluding’ on decarbonization
The interim report from the yearslong probe also accuses groups in the financial system of forming a “climate cartel” that “has declared war on the American way of life.”
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California goes after Big Oil’s ‘illegal’ profits over alleged greenwashing
ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP and the American Petroleum Institute may be required to surrender profits gained from false advertising, according to an amended complaint filed Monday.
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Arizona regulators say UNSE 200-MW gas expansion can proceed without environmental certificate
State law requires a certificate of environmental compatibility for power plant additions of 100 MW or more, but UNS Electric’s proposal has four units, each with a nameplate capacity of 50 MW.
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Residential DERs could compensate for rise in peak energy demand by 2035: Deloitte
Most utilities, however, will need to increase coordination with residential customers to maximize the potential of distributed energy resources, according to Deloitte.
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Column
FERC in Focus: Has the agency been ‘captured’ by the sectors it regulates?
FERC Commissioner Mark Christie thinks so. Other FERC experts don't go that far, but they see the commission giving a strong deference to utility companies.
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NextEra Energy Resources, Entergy strike 4.5 GW solar and storage development deal
The five-year agreement will allow Entergy to access NextEra Energy’s supply chain and its development expertise to expand Entergy’s renewable energy portfolio.
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TerraPower begins construction at 345-MW advanced reactor site in Wyoming
The company expects to begin building non-nuclear electricity generation infrastructure in 2025, TerraPower chairman Bill Gates said Monday.
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Maryland PSC rejects Exelon utility’s $213.6M multiyear rate plan
Instead, Pepco will be able to increase its rates by $44.6 million for a year while the state agency assesses the benefits of multi-year rate plans.
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$7.85B Mountain Valley Pipeline construction complete
Gas will soon flow on the much-delayed project, which received a green light from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday.
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Deep Dive
As NVIDIA, IBM and others apply AI to boost utilities, regulatory and data privacy obstacles abound
The “move fast and break things” business model of the technology sector is meeting the regulated spending and reliability imperatives of the utility sector.
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NV Energy proposes 400 MW gas peakers, more than 1 GW each of solar, storage in 2024 IRP
The cost of the Greenlink Nevada transmission project has risen 70%, to $4.2 billion, due to inflation, supply chain constraints and labor costs, the utility said.
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DTE Energy to deploy 220 MW of battery storage at former coal plant
The announcement follows an RFP for 120 MW of energy storage and tracks DTE’s longer-term push to more than double energy storage capacity by 2042.
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US summer electric bills expected to rise 8% in 2024 amid drop in low-income aid: report
The average U.S. electric bill this summer is projected to set a 10-year record, finds a June 3 report from the National Energy Assistance Directors Association and Center for Energy Poverty and Climate.
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Congressional Dems urge SEC to stay committed to climate disclosure rule
A group of 38 lawmakers asked the agency to “vigorously defend” its now-stayed final rule in court and enforce previous climate-related guidance in the interim.
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Opinion
Transmission planning’s next frontier: A rebuttable presumption for modern grid technologies
Regulators should apply the principle of ‘rebuttable presumption’ — accepting a given fact as true until it is disproved — by ensuring that alternative transmission technologies are prioritized in evaluating system needs.
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Proposed tax on gas-powered large buildings will go to voters in Berkeley, California
A 2023 court decision that struck down Berkeley’s first-in-the-nation ban on gas hookups in new construction is part of what led to the ballot measure, an organizer said.
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Nuclear Innovation Alliance offers road map to catalyze advanced nuclear development
Project sponsors and the federal government can do more to share project risk and cover budget overruns for early projects, the group found.
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$45M available for energy efficiency retrofits: DOE
Washington, D.C., and five states are receiving funds for revolving loan programs that can be tapped for energy audits, upgrades and retrofits, the U.S. Department of Energy said.
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