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    Middle River Power reverses plan to shut 540-MW plant amid record PJM capacity prices

    The company withdrew plans to shutter its gas-fired Elgin power plant in Illinois after capacity prices jumped to $270/MW-day in PJM's part of the state.

    By • Sept. 12, 2024
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    Opinion

    Why many environmentalists are warming to nuclear power

    They are revisiting their early concerns about nuclear power — primarily waste, safety and costs — in light of new information, and they are concluding that the benefits outweigh the risks.

    By Judi Greenwald • Sept. 11, 2024
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    Data Centers and the US Grid

    A look at how data centers are affecting the U.S. grid today and how new technologies and rate structures could affect that trajectory in the years to come.

    By Utility Dive staff
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    National Grid, Constellation propose options to prioritize grid interconnection requests

    However, “rationing” grid interconnection threatens open access to the power system, GridStor’s Jason Burwen said at a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission workshop.

    By • Sept. 11, 2024
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    BLM approves NV Energy’s Greenlink West transmission, Arevia’s $2.3B solar + storage project

    NV Energy will buy power from Arevia’s 700-MW solar/2.8-GWh battery project in Nevada at a levelized cost of $93.69/MWh.

    By • Sept. 10, 2024
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    Flexible interconnection service for Duke solar could slash costs, speed grid connections: study

    Providing energy-only interconnection service to a 1.9-GW Duke Energy solar cluster could reduce grid upgrade costs by 72%, according to a study being discussed at a FERC workshop Tuesday.

    By • Sept. 10, 2024
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    The fallout from PJM’s record-setting capacity auction

    Utilities, power plant owners, state lawmakers and regulators are responding to PJM's latest capacity auction, with an eye on the ones ahead.

    By • Sept. 6, 2024
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    Uprates, batteries and DR may offer near-term responses to record PJM capacity prices

    With tight supply-demand conditions, upcoming capacity auctions could be volatile, according to ESAI Power’s Scott Niemann. “It just adds a lot more uncertainty to the auction outcomes," he said.

    By • Sept. 6, 2024
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    PJM considers fast-track review for shovel-ready generating projects

    The grid operator expects generators will step in with new supplies in response to high prices in its recent capacity auction.

    By • Sept. 5, 2024
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    White House announces $7.3B clean energy financing for Dairyland Power, 15 other co-ops

    The federal funding will support 10 GW in clean energy projects lowering electricity costs for cooperative utilities in 23 states, the White House said.

    By • Sept. 5, 2024
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    Texas denies Aegle Power loan application for 1.3-GW gas plant after NextEra’s unauthorized inclusion

    Lawmakers said they want to know how the Public Utility Commission of Texas and Deloitte “advanced a problematic and unqualified application by an energy executive who was publicly convicted of fraud.”

    By • Sept. 5, 2024
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    Reregulation? How utilities and states are responding to PJM’s record capacity prices

    “Houston, we have a problem,” American Municipal Power’s Steve Lieberman said. “If we don’t see new capacity in the [2027/28] auction, we’re really running out of time.”

    By • Sept. 4, 2024
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    CenterPoint to propose $5B for Houston grid resilience, forego profits from mobile generation lease

    CenterPoint apologized to state lawmakers about the mobile generators. We “should have communicated more clearly to our elected officials about the cost and the limitations of such large-scale units,” the utility said.

    By • Sept. 4, 2024
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    Sierra Club sues Arizona regulators over UNS Electric 200-MW gas expansion

    A June decision “overturned the existing environmental review process ... setting a dangerous precedent,” said Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter Director Sandy Bahr.

    By • Sept. 4, 2024
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    Ratepayer advocates urge PJM to include RMR power plants in capacity auctions

    PJM should hold a stakeholder process to include reliability-must-run plants and, if needed, delay the next auction, set to take place in December, to avoid “unjust and unreasonable” prices, they said.

    By • Sept. 3, 2024
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    Texas PUC selects 17 gas-fired projects totaling almost 10 GW for possible loans

    The Public Utility Commission of Texas also finalized a reliability standard and took other steps to strengthen the state’s electric system at Thursday’s open meeting.

    By • Aug. 30, 2024
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    PJM capacity prices could jump 157% in next auction: Morgan Stanley

    While prices could hit a $695/MW-day cap, relatively small changes in new supply in the December auction could produce large swings in the outcome, analysts said.

    By • Aug. 29, 2024
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    Pennsylvania state senator to propose loan fund to spur new power plants

    The Pennsylvania Baseload Energy Development Fund would be modeled after a $5 billion loan fund in Texas.

    By • Aug. 29, 2024
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    US clean energy jobs grew 4.2% in 2023: DOE

    The U.S. added clean energy jobs at more than twice the rate of the broader economy, according to the Department of Energy.

    By • Aug. 28, 2024
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    Clean energy groups push for more interconnection reforms ahead of FERC workshop

    They called for fast-track processes that would give construction-ready projects access to existing and planned interconnection capacity, among other things.

    By • Aug. 27, 2024
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    Southwest Power Pool seeks FERC OK to delay 2024 interconnection queue process

    The delay would give SPP time to finish studying and restudying interconnection clusters going back to 2018, the grid operator told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

    By • Aug. 26, 2024
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    CAISO interconnection reform plan draws support from SoCal Ed, PG&E, PUC

    However, renewable energy developers and trade groups urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reject provisions they say would favor utility-backed projects.

    By • Aug. 23, 2024
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    New England may need ‘vast renewable build-out’ by 2050 to meet state decarbonization goals: ISO

    By 2045, wind and solar resources are projected to meet just 10 GW of the 51 GW peak gross load during peak winter demand, according to the grid operator’s modeling.

    By • Aug. 23, 2024
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    MISO, SPP advance ‘unprecedented’ transmission plan that could support up to 30 GW

    The grid operators are seeking Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approvals that are needed to build $1.7 billion in transmission projects along their northern border.

    By • Aug. 22, 2024
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    California pioneers new ways to ease interconnection of large DERs

    Limited generation profiles in California will schedule limits to DERs during system constraints. New York, Illinois, Colorado and others are testing more flexible approaches.

    By • Aug. 21, 2024
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    FERC rejects Basin Electric’s cryptocurrency mining rate proposal

    Basin Electric failed to show it was fair to treat cryptocurrency loads differently from other similar-sized loads, the agency said in a potentially precedent-setting decision.

    By • Aug. 21, 2024