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OpinionA market-based path to unlocking interconnection queues
When a scarce resource like grid access is given away administratively rather than allocated based on economic value, the result is always the same: inefficiency, congestion and delays.
By Terry Harvill and August Ankum • April 2, 2025 -
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EPA denies harm from GGRF freeze in court filing
EPA argued that the funding freeze would not cause irreparable harm to grantees, while the grantee plaintiffs say the freeze is “potentially fatal” for their operations.
By Diana DiGangi • April 1, 2025 -
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TrendlineSustainability
Companies are pursuing increasingly ambitous sustainability goals around clean energy, but integrating rising amounts of renewables, minimizing environmental impacts, and achieving carbon reduction targets can be challenging.
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FERC review of PJM colocation rules for data centers, large loads may extend past mid-year: analysts
“Participants involved in co-location arrangements should pay the costs of any grid services they consume and the arrangements must be reliable and operationally manageable,” PJM told the commission.
By Ethan Howland • April 1, 2025 -
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US ‘nuclear renaissance’ faces high capital costs, uncertain federal policy support: ICF
Bringing new nuclear “down the cost curve” requires design standardization and continued support from federal clean energy tax credits, the consultancy said in a white paper.
By Brian Martucci • March 31, 2025 -
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House Republicans probe EPA climate grant recipients
The House Oversight Committee chair is spearheading an investigation into the eight environmental groups that received funding through the Biden-era Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
By Zoya Mirza • March 28, 2025 -
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Deep DiveTrump executive order threatens transmission, interconnection initiatives: former FERC commissioners
President Trump’s executive order compromises FERC’s independence, is “unhealthy, unwarranted, and unprecedented,” threatens power system reliability and is “plainly illegal,” the former commissioners say.
By Herman K. Trabish • March 26, 2025 -
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OpinionWhy rolling blackouts are a thing of the past — and why President Trump is wrong on green energy
California and Texas show how energy storage can bridge the political divide to bolster grid reliability and lower costs.
By Tam Hunt • March 25, 2025 -
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Texas Senate passes bill to establish ‘dispatchable’ power credits trading program
The scheme would incentivize new gas and other “dispatchable” generation at the expense of renewables and batteries, which constitute the vast majority of recent capacity additions in ERCOT.
By Brian Martucci • March 24, 2025 -
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IRA repeal would increase energy costs, hurt jobs: Energy Innovation
However, the Cato Institute said the law could cost up to $2 trillion by 2035, in part due to uncapped tax credits.
By Ethan Howland • March 24, 2025 -
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MISO proposes demand response rule changes to stem market fraud, gaming
The proposal is in response to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission enforcement actions involving Voltus, Ketchup Caddy, Big River Steel and Linde.
By Ethan Howland • March 24, 2025 -
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FERC approves SPP’s RTO West, plus 4 other open meeting takeaways
The White House has not directed the commission to bolster coal-fired generation, and the agency is eyeing reorganization possibilities, Chairman Mark Christie said Thursday.
By Ethan Howland • March 21, 2025 -
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MISO proposes framework to speed generation interconnection
But the Clean Grid Alliance said the proposed Expedited Resource Addition Study process “overcomplicates an already complex system.”
By Robert Walton • March 20, 2025 -
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LPO shows signs of life with $56.8M Palisades disbursement
The disbursement under a $1.5 billion Biden-era loan guarantee restart the nuclear power facility furthers the Trump administration’s goal of promoting “affordable, reliable and secure” energy, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said.
By Brian Martucci • March 19, 2025 -
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EPA yanks air quality permit for 1.5-GW Atlantic Shores offshore wind project
EPA Region 2 requested the permit remand as part of President Trump’s mandated review of offshore wind projects, the agency said.
By Diana DiGangi • March 18, 2025 -
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Industry groups, utilities encourage more ‘efficient’ Part 53 changes
The Nuclear Energy Institute and other organizations weighed in last month on the latest version of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s technology-neutral Part 53 licensing pathway.
By Brian Martucci • March 18, 2025 -
PJM’s capacity ‘price collar’ proposal sparks market confidence concerns
North Carolina regulators and others urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reject the plan, partly because of its proposed price floor.
By Ethan Howland • March 18, 2025 -
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FERC reaffirms approval of Southeastern SEEM market
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected arguments made by Advanced Energy United, the Clean Energy Buyers Association and others that the market unfairly limits market access.
By Ethan Howland • March 17, 2025 -
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Deep DiveSantee Cooper wants to sell its unfinished reactors. What happens next?
Completing V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 could spark a “nuclear renaissance,” South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says, but questions remain on the project’s scope, timeline and cost.
By Brian Martucci • March 17, 2025 -
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Some SMRs could bypass environmental review step under Arizona bill
Utilities building SMRs in rural Arizona could skip a review step if the units are colocated with certain large industrial loads or built at power plants that previously received environmental certification.
By Brian Martucci • March 14, 2025 -
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MISO overstates transmission plan benefits by excluding Invenergy project: market monitor
Potomac Economics called for increased oversight of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s transmission planning in a filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
By Ethan Howland • March 14, 2025 -
Kentucky Power customers pay for AEP transmission without benefit, state officials say in complaint
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should order American Electric Power to overhaul a transmission cost-sharing pact among its Eastern utilities, Kentucky officials said.
By Ethan Howland • March 14, 2025 -
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EPA to end environmental justice programs, monitoring tools
As part of the Trump administration’s end to environmental justice programs, the waste industry no longer has access to EJScreen, a monitoring tool used to track environmental justice metrics near facilities.
By Megan Quinn • March 13, 2025 -
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US denounces UN’s sustainable development goals, quits climate damage fund
The U.S. voted against resolutions that promoted climate action and gender equality and withdrew from the United Nations’ Loss and Damage fund, all within a day.
By Zoya Mirza • March 13, 2025 -
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EPA aims to roll back power sector regulations in broad deregulatory push
It would likely take several years — potentially into the next presidency — to revise at least some of the targeted regulations, according to analysts.
By Ethan Howland • March 13, 2025 -
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OpinionGrowing demand for electricity requires new policy solutions
We need forward-thinking policies that allow public power utilities to finance and build critical infrastructure projects faster without raising costs for the communities they serve.
By Tom Falcone • March 12, 2025
