Ethan Howland
Senior Reporter | @ethanhowland27Ethan Howland covers the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Congress and electricity markets for Utility Dive. He's been covering the power sector for two decades from his home in Portland, Maine.
833 articles by Ethan Howland
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FERC should bar transmission owners from planning local transmission over 100-kV: complaint
Dec. 20, 2024 -
FERC floats ‘ride-through’ reliability standards for wind, solar, batteries, plus 5 other open meeting takeaways
Dec. 20, 2024 -
Ameren Missouri will spend $61M to mitigate Clean Air Act violations from Missouri power plant
Dec. 19, 2024 -
American Efficient faces $975M FERC hit for ‘manipulative scheme’ in MISO, PJM
Dec. 18, 2024 -
MISO board approves $22B regional transmission plan with 765-kV backbone
Dec. 13, 2024 -
Grid constraints limit near-term data center growth in Northwest: NPCC panelist
Dec. 12, 2024 -
Google, Intersect Power to develop co-located energy parks with $20B of renewables, storage
Dec. 11, 2024 -
PJM expects summer peak load to grow 2% a year on average, driven by data centers
Dec. 10, 2024 -
FERC rejects plan to shift PJM’s transmission planning protocol in win for state regulators
Dec. 9, 2024 -
FERC orders Ketchup Caddy to pay $27M for MISO demand response fraud
Dec. 6, 2024 -
PSE&G to pay $6.6M for inaccurately reporting need for local PJM transmission project
Dec. 6, 2024 -
Renewable energy developers urge PJM to drop fast-track interconnection plan
Dec. 4, 2024 -
Eos Energy lands $304M DOE loan for battery plant expansion
Dec. 3, 2024 -
Duke pauses consideration of DOE loan program with Trump election, new Congress
Dec. 2, 2024 -
ECP plan to buy 5.3 GW could drive up PJM capacity prices, Public Citizen, others tell FERC
Nov. 27, 2024 -
2024 election: US electric power sector impacts
Nov. 27, 2024 -
Constellation asks FERC for PJM rules on data centers and other co-located load
Nov. 26, 2024 -
Affordability, data center growth and more: 9 state utility regulators reveal their top challenges
Nov. 26, 2024 -
EPA proposes tightening NOx limits for new gas-fired power plants
Nov. 25, 2024 -
Indiana Michigan Power, Amazon, Google, others agree on large load interconnection rules
Nov. 25, 2024 -
FERC expands states’ role in regional transmission planning, cost allocation
Nov. 22, 2024 -
Local transmission spending soars nationwide amid ‘serious absence of cost containment’
Nov. 20, 2024 -
Salt River, APS sign up for 300 MW of storage from EDP Renewables, Strata Clean Energy
Nov. 19, 2024 -
Ratepayer advocates press FERC for PJM capacity market changes, citing ‘crushing’ prices
Nov. 19, 2024 -
Not just a ‘boondoggle’: State regulators, industrial companies push for cost effective transmission
Nov. 19, 2024