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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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Power demand is rising amid dramatic shifts in federal energy policy, but technology and markets continue to push the grid toward cleaner, more distributed resources.
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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 -
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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 Ethan Howland • March 12, 2025 -
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OpinionBeating 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 Diana DiGangi • 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 Ethan Howland • 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 -
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OpinionProposed FERC price cap settlement will intensify looming electric capacity crisis
Artificially deflating PJM's capacity prices by lowering the price cap does nothing to fix the grid operator’s power-supply problems and could lead to blackouts.
By Anthony “Tony” Campbell • March 10, 2025 -
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Utilities may subsidize data center growth by shifting costs to other ratepayers: Harvard Law paper
“The public faces significant risks that utilities will … profit from new data centers by making major investments and then shifting costs to their captive ratepayers,” the report’s authors said.
By Ethan Howland • March 10, 2025 -
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IRA funding freeze has put ‘many’ clean energy projects on pause
The uncertainty created by the funding freeze has affected projects at “various stages of development,” a clean energy executive said on a recent press call.
By Lamar Johnson • March 7, 2025 -
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Deep DiveAvista, PG&E, Ameren AI demonstrations show great potential – but are other utilities ready?
New artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms can optimize complexities across the power system if utilities and regulators can make data more accessible — and protect it, experts say.
By Herman K. Trabish • March 7, 2025 -
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Bonneville opts to join SPP’s Markets+ day-ahead market over CAISO alternative
BPA’s draft decision sets the stage for having two intertwined day-ahead markets across the West with complex seams between them.
By Ethan Howland • March 7, 2025 -
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Trump extends tariff pause to all USMCA goods
Imports from Mexico and Canada that are compliant with the trade deal will not be subject to tariffs until April 2.
By Philip Neuffer • March 6, 2025 -
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Basin Electric urges Congress to support clean energy tax credits
Inflation Reduction Act tax credits support energy infrastructure needed to meet rising demand for electricity, an Iowa Republican said during a House hearing.
By Ethan Howland • March 6, 2025 -
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DOE approves LNG export permit extension for Golden Pass
The extension, for a project owned by QatarEnergy and ExxonMobil, is the third LNG-related decision DOE has issued since President Trump took office.
By Robert Walton • March 6, 2025
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