Regulation & Policy: Page 15
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Deep DiveA new era of price-based demand response emerges, but utilities and regulators need proof of its potential
New load flexibility from price-based demand response programs could be invaluable if reliability and cost-effectiveness is confirmed in real-world operating conditions, stakeholders agree.
By Herman K. Trabish • March 27, 2024 -
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OpinionElection year opportunities — and pitfalls — for emerging energy companies
Whether you are a renewable energy firm, energy manufacturing group, private investor in the space or other stakeholder, there are many ways you can become politically active and effective.
By Steve Roberts and Nicole Kelly • March 27, 2024 -
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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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ERCOT to survey customers about cost of power outages
Responses will help regulators estimate the value of lost load and ultimately set a reliability standard for the Texas grid.
By Robert Walton • March 27, 2024 -
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White House funds $6B to decarbonize US industrial sector
The Department of Energy offered grants for 33 projects in eight historically high carbon-emitting industries such as aluminum, concrete and chemicals.
By Joelle Anselmo • March 26, 2024 -
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OpinionThe SEC makes the call: Climate risk equals financial risk
When the SEC’s climate disclosure rule is paired with other climate reporting directives, the shift within the financial landscape will be monumental.
By Bob Hinkle • March 26, 2024 -
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States shouldn’t have to pay for transmission driven by other states’ policies: FERC’s Christie
Loading up a pending transmission planning and cost allocation rule with more legally dubious provisions will increase risks in its “uncertain future,” FERC Commissioner Mark Christie said.
By Ethan Howland • March 26, 2024 -
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FERC doesn’t act on dispute over Salt River Project’s rooftop solar rules, teeing up possible court battle
The decision stems from a petition filed by Vote Solar and several SRP customers over the Tempe, Arizona-based utility’s rooftop solar program.
By Ethan Howland • March 25, 2024 -
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OpinionGrid technology could save billions but for a policy vacuum
Separate studies by Quanta Technologies and the Brattle Group found that using grid-enhancing technologies in generator interconnection could reduce wholesale energy costs nationwide by over $5 billion per year.
By Neil Chatterjee • March 25, 2024 -
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Sponsored by ScottMaddenHow states are tackling clean heat and what it means for utilities
Among states with greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets, several are considering and implementing clean heat standards in which heating applications are examined for potential GHG reduction.
By Andrew Cottrell, Partner, ScottMadden • March 25, 2024 -
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Sponsored by Convergent Energy and PowerLocal solar power: how solar pv can transform your utility
Learn how solar PV can support greater energy independence and reduce carbon emissions.
March 25, 2024 -
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SEC to face all climate rule challenges in US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
The agency had nine legal challenges to its rule requiring public companies to disclose certain climate risks consolidated into one venue.
By Lamar Johnson • March 22, 2024 -
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Senators press FERC nominees on climate, natural gas, transmission cost allocation
Republicans on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee focused on the issue of fuel neutrality and whether the nominees would uphold it.
By Diana DiGangi • March 22, 2024 -
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OpinionNuclear boosterism has gotten reckless
Today's misguided focus on nuclear power is diverting us from renewables, storage and efficiency, hobbling us in our race against climate chaos.
By Kevin Kamps • March 22, 2024 -
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FERC affirms generator interconnection rule, but ‘it’s not a silver bullet,’ Christie says
Renewables and storage make up the majority of interconnection queue projects, but they are “not one-for-one replacements” for retiring dispatchable power plants, Commissioner Mark Christie warned.
By Robert Walton • March 22, 2024 -
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Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee sue SEC to block climate rule, building on Republican-led backlash
The trio of states, led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, has asked a federal court to review the rule and stop the agency from “overstepping its authority.”
By Zoya Mirza • March 21, 2024 -
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OpinionUnlocking the power of green hydrogen requires a workable tax credit
The Treasury Department’s draft rules for the 45V clean hydrogen tax credit will slow things to a crawl, doing the opposite of what the Inflation Reduction Act intended, which was to encourage domestic hydrogen production.
By Andy Vesey • March 21, 2024 -
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Federal appeals court pauses SEC climate rule implementation
The climate disclosure regulation is now on pause pending a review from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, as the first of multiple challenges yields action.
By Lamar Johnson • March 20, 2024 -
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OpinionFERC needs a quorum to function. Tomorrow’s Senate hearing puts that work on the line.
If FERC loses its quorum, vital natural gas projects may be delayed, stalling economic growth and hindering U.S. producers’ ability to meet energy demands.
By Amy Andryszak • March 20, 2024 -
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Deep DiveCalifornia lawmakers backpedal on income-based utility charges as IOUs, others propose alternatives
State legislators ordered regulators in 2022 to implement an income-graduated fixed charge to protect low-income customers and shift the funding for various policy goals. A new bill would repeal that.
By Herman K. Trabish • March 19, 2024 -
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Up to 58 GW faces retirement in PJM by 2030 without replacement capacity in sight: market monitor
Nearly 60% of the generation that could shutter is deemed “uneconomic,” but capacity prices and other factors could change, potentially easing the risk, the grid operator’s market monitor said.
By Ethan Howland • March 18, 2024 -
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Bills aim to spur grid-enhancing technologies with shared-savings incentives from FERC
“The Advancing GETs Act will motivate grid operators and developers to bring new projects online that expand transmission capacity,” Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said Wednesday.
By Ethan Howland • March 14, 2024 -
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3rd Circuit backs NRG, Constellation Energy, others in rejecting FERC move on PJM capacity auction
FERC allowed PJM to adopt a new rule to address anomalous high capacity prices in its latest capacity auction, but the federal appeals court said the change was illegal retroactive ratemaking.
By Ethan Howland • March 14, 2024 -
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OpinionPermitting reform budget request should push Congress to negotiate a bipartisan deal
Our domestic energy supply cannot be secured until the United States’ burdensome approval process is overhauled so that we can begin to get major energy infrastructure projects underway.
By Liam deClive-Lowe and Paolo Mastrangelo • March 14, 2024 -
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OpinionNuclear energy finance bans prevent the world from buying American
Securing financing for commercially-oriented nuclear energy projects is critical for American suppliers to compete against adversarial state-owned entities.
By Kenneth Petersen • March 12, 2024 -
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DOE’s ARPA-E faces budget cut, FERC to explore AI and other highlights from Biden’s budget
DOE’s Grid Deployment Office, the Energy Information Administration and renewables research would see budget hikes, while nuclear energy research and development spending would be cut.
By Ethan Howland • March 12, 2024
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