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Federal agencies, including FERC and DOE, revoke environmental review rules
The agencies eliminated all references to consider climate change, environmental justice and other key environmental issues in their permit reviews, Earthjustice said.
By Ethan Howland • July 1, 2025 -
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OpinionTrump attacks on NRC independence pose health, safety risks
The exodus of key personnel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will jeopardize its ability to oversee the nuclear power fleet and slow the licensing of new facilities to a crawl.
By Edwin Lyman • June 30, 2025 -
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Affordability a ‘formidable challenge’ as load shifts to tech, industrial customers: ICF
The consulting agency expects electricity prices to rise as much as 25% in some regions through 2030 due to necessary grid expansion, wildfire hardening and other infrastructure projects.
By Brian Martucci • June 30, 2025 -
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OpinionCan oil and gas solve the AI power dilemma?
The convergence between oil, technology and utilities reflects a profound structural shift — energy and computing are no longer parallel industries but mutually dependent pillars of modern innovation.
By Joe Brettell • June 27, 2025 -
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New York Gov. Hochul hints at ‘fleet-style approach’ to nuclear deployments
A truly “competitive process” for siting the new nuclear capacity in New York would look beyond the three existing nuclear plants Constellation Energy owns near Lake Ontario, one analyst said.
By Brian Martucci • June 27, 2025 -
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FERC’s Christie calls for dispatchable resources after grid operators come ‘close to the edge’
“You never know about the next time, and there's going to be a next time,” Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Mark Christie said about grid operators' ability to avoid blackouts this week.
By Ethan Howland • June 27, 2025 -
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OpinionHow risk-spend efficiency puts AI at the center of utility investment strategy
As risks grow in both intensity and complexity, utilities that adopt this approach can shift from reactive planning to proactive strategy and face the future with greater confidence.
By Adam Cornille • June 26, 2025 -
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Eight utility regulators challenge DOE order keeping Michigan coal plant open
The department’s invocation of emergency powers to interfere with state and regional utility planning is unprecedented, according to the challenge.
By Ethan Howland • June 26, 2025 -
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Utilities, energy developers back Senate’s more lenient tax credit timeline
A powerful coalition of trade associations and energy groups thanked senators for rolling back some of the House version’s deepest cuts, but the two chambers will need to agree on a final bill.
By Brian Martucci • June 25, 2025 -
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Nuclear regulators lighten microreactor restrictions
The new policy includes a broader set of directives to advance an emerging class of transportable, factory-made reactors.
By Brian Martucci • June 24, 2025 -
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DOE grants Duke Energy authority to exceed power plant permit limits during extreme heat
The emergency order will help reduce the risk of blackouts in the Southeast brought on by high temperatures, the department said.
By Ethan Howland • June 24, 2025 -
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OpinionHow electric companies can reduce liability risks from climate change
Upgrading infrastructure, embracing renewables and collaborating with governments and communities are no longer optional if companies want to ease legal risks and maintain social license to operate.
By Aaron Rokstad • June 24, 2025 -
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Who should pay to keep Michigan coal plant running past its retirement date?
Groups told federal regulators that making MISO customers pay for a power plant that does not benefit them would violate the Federal Power Act’s cost causation requirement.
By Ethan Howland • June 23, 2025 -
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Groups appeal DOE ‘emergency’ order keeping Michigan plant online
“There is no energy emergency in our country … and it is illegal to invoke a made-up emergency to overturn a long-planned plant retirement,” the Sierra Club’s Greg Wannier said.
By Ethan Howland • Updated June 20, 2025 -
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NRC speeds timeline for Dow/X-energy reactor permit review
The 18-month timeline halves NRC’s “generic schedule” for a construction permit application. But Dow is unlikely to greenlight the Texas project before 2028, a spokesperson said.
By Brian Martucci • June 18, 2025 -
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OpinionAI is coming for grid-decision making. Here’s why governance can’t be an afterthought.
In the 20th century, infrastructure decisions — where to put highways, site power plants or make upgrades — often reinforced inequities. AI threatens to replicate that pattern — at scale and at speed.
By Brandon N. Owens • June 18, 2025 -
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‘Shoulder season’ reliability a growing concern in ERCOT, other ISOs: Aurora Energy Research
Batteries, gas peaker plants and data centers will provide critical system flexibility by 2030 as load growth, aging infrastructure and weather volatility increase planning uncertainty, Aurora said.
By Brian Martucci • June 17, 2025 -
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OpinionSenate: Don’t fumble the energy future
Ending clean energy tax deductions would limit power supply and raise electricity prices. It would be like sending a great football team to compete in the Super Bowl without cleats.
By Dean Granoff • June 17, 2025 -
NRG, LS Power ask FERC to approve $12B gas-fired power plant, demand-response deal
NRG’s capacity in the PJM Interconnection would jump to 9.5 GW from 2.1 GW under the deal, which doesn’t pose market power risks, the companies said.
By Ethan Howland • June 17, 2025 -
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Deep DiveWill ERCOT’s streamlined connect-and-manage approach work for other markets?
ERCOT’s single-state, energy-only interconnection process doesn’t include other markets’ deliverability requirements and generator cost certainty needs.
By Herman K. Trabish • June 16, 2025 -
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State regulators, utilities support SPP fast-track interconnection plan
But NextEra Energy Resources, clean energy trade groups and others contend it would give utilities a pathway to exclude independent power producers from the process.
By Ethan Howland • June 13, 2025 -
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LCOE has ‘significant limitations’ and is overused, says CATF
The levelized cost of electricity metric “often does not account for the full electricity system cost necessary to deploy a generator at a large scale,” said a report from the Clean Air Task Force.
By Diana DiGangi • June 13, 2025 -
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Meta-Constellation virtual PPA could be first of many deals for existing reactor output: experts
Aging plants in Illinois, New York, New Jersey and other states with expiring nuclear subsidy programs may turn to deep-pocketed tech companies for relicensing and operating support, ClearView Energy Partners said this week.
By Brian Martucci • June 12, 2025 -
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EPA proposes slashing power plant carbon, mercury emission limits
However, the Environmental Protection Agency’s rationale behind the move may be legally flawed, according to environmental and other groups.
By Ethan Howland • June 12, 2025 -
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Talen to sell Amazon 1.9 GW from Susquehanna nuclear plant
The “front of the meter” arrangement doesn’t require Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval, according to Talen Energy.
By Ethan Howland • June 11, 2025
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