Regulation & Policy

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    Opinion

    Why 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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    Sustainability

    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.

    By Utility Dive staff
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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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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
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    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 • 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 • March 17, 2025
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    Deep Dive

    Santee 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 • March 14, 2025
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    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 • 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 • March 13, 2025
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    Opinion

    Growing 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
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    Ontario suspends tariff on electricity exports to US

    The tariff spat may signal the Trump administration’s willingness to pursue “muscular interventions” to reopen coal-fired power plants, ClearView Energy Partners said.

    By • March 12, 2025
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    Opinion

    Beating China on AI requires all available grid solutions

    We will need all available transmission tools — including grid-enhancing technologies and high-performance conductors — to meet the growing demand for power from data centers.

    By Neil Chatterjee • March 12, 2025
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    21 House Republicans oppose cutting clean energy credits to pay for tax cuts

    “Both our constituencies and the energy industry alike remain concerned about disruptive changes to our nation’s energy tax structure,” the letter led by Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., said.

    By Lamar Johnson • March 11, 2025
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    Climate United Fund sues EPA, Citibank over frozen $7B

    The lawsuit asks the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to order the funds be unfrozen and disbursed.

    By • March 11, 2025
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    Ontario imposes 25% tariff on power exports to US

    The Canadian province on Monday adopted a US$7/MWh fee on exports to Michigan, Minnesota and New York, which it expects will generate about $243,000 a day in U.S. dollars.

    By • March 11, 2025
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    Insurance — public or private — likely won’t stop utility wildfire risks, experts say

    California's state-run wildfire insurance fund was an industry-leading model. Now investors and experts are voicing concerns about its potential collapse.

    By Emma Penrod • March 10, 2025