FERC in Focus: Will the agency maintain its independence under Trump 2.0?

With two Republican nominees preparing to join the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, former commissioners, experts and agency observers say they are watching several key areas to gauge whether the body will remain autonomous.

By Ethan Howland • Sept. 4, 2025

Trump escalates war against offshore wind as Danish developer strikes back

The administration moved to revoke another offshore wind permit as the developer of a different blocked project filed a lawsuit.

By Meris Lutz • Sept. 4, 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. 

By Utility Dive staff

With tax credits expiring, a home electrification nonprofit is racing against the clock

Rewiring America has launched a national campaign to help homeowners take advantage of clean energy and efficiency incentives that will expire soon.

By Robert Walton • Sept. 3, 2025

PJM stakeholders overwhelmingly pan proposal for data center interconnection

Amazon and others urged PJM to drop the proposal and instead focus on how to improve load forecasting, bolster the grid interconnection process and strengthen regional transmission planning.

By Ethan Howland • Sept. 3, 2025

Rethinking transmission policy for an energy emergency

While a bidding process is often presumed to deliver consumer benefits, bidding efforts for transmission have not followed that pattern.

By Benjamin Dierker • Sept. 2, 2025

Appellate court rules Trump’s global tariffs illegal, but delays action

The court intends to strike down the tariffs by mid-October, pending a Supreme Court review of the ruling.

By Antone Gonsalves • Sept. 2, 2025

PJM faces possible long-term ‘energy emergency’: DOE

The Department of Energy ordered Constellation to keep running units in Pennsylvania while groups challenge the emergency orders. “A ‘growing … concern’ is not an emergency,” consumer advocates said.

By Ethan Howland • Sept. 2, 2025

The next 30 years of power prices

Demand is rising everywhere. See how growth, tariffs and data centers play out in each market.

By Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) • Sept. 2, 2025

Unconstitutional: Utilities are funding political speech with captive ratepayer funds

When ratepayers are forced to subsidize utility political activity through state-set rates, utilities and the state compel objecting ratepayers to fund a private company's political speech.

By Eliza Martin • Aug. 28, 2025

Illinois regulators, others urge FERC to dismiss Ameren push to build $1.9B in MISO projects

Ameren Illinois contends it has the right to build 765-kV transmission projects in Illinois that are part of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s Tranche 2.1 regional plan.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 28, 2025

Tariffs pose ‘elevated risk’ of unleashing high inflation: Atlanta Fed

“Firms with supply chains that rely on imported goods have revised up their year-ahead [price] expectations markedly,” economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said.

By Jim Tyson • Aug. 28, 2025

Minnesota’s energy future deserves better than BlackRock’s empty promises

What happens in Minnesota will send a signal to other states about whether regulators are willing to put public interest ahead of Wall Street profit, writes Alissa Jean Schafer of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project.

By Alissa Jean Schafer • Aug. 27, 2025

FERC approves NextEra waiver needed for Duane Arnold nuclear plant restart

NextEra Energy — majority owner of the nuclear plant in Iowa — is in talks with potential customers for the output from Duane Arnold.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 26, 2025

TXNM Energy seeks state regulators’ approval for $11.5B Blackstone acquisition

New Mexico advocates are lining up to oppose the deal. Blackstone “has a long track record of putting profits above people,” said Mariel Nanasi, executive director of New Energy Economy.

By Robert Walton • Aug. 26, 2025

PacifiCorp urges FERC to dismiss challenges to adding $1.7B in wildfire costs to transmission rates

The Bonneville Power Administration, Powerex, Deseret Generation & Transmission Co-Operative and others contend PacifiCorp has failed to show its wildfire-related costs were prudent.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 25, 2025

How grid-enhancing technologies are shaping New York’s planning and protecting ratepayers

New technologies and planning approaches can help speed the energy transition while ensuring power system reliability and affordability.

By Schuyler Matteson • Aug. 22, 2025

Trump sets stage for more tariffs with wind turbine probe

Capstone analysts said they expect the government to expedite the investigation and apply tariffs “likely around 25%-50%” on turbines and components.

By Meris Lutz • Aug. 22, 2025

‘Backed into a corner,’ Texas regulators consider cost caps for Entergy gas plants

Entergy Texas needs new generating capacity — and soon — but regulators say the utility failed to consider potentially cheaper options to a portfolio of gas plants.

By Robert Walton • Aug. 22, 2025

PJM surplus interconnection can support 153 GW of solar, wind, storage: UC Berkeley researchers

Surplus interconnection capacity can enable rapid resource additions. “There's a demand for anything that can come online in any sort of a reasonable time frame,” EDP Renewables’ David Mindham said.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 21, 2025

DOE extends order to delay retiring Consumers’ Michigan coal plant

Emergency energy conditions may last for years in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator footprint, the Department of Energy said.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 21, 2025

Utilities: Don’t lose out on advanced metering infrastructure with a short-term vision

There is a revolution of grid-connected devices in the making, writes Laura Sherman, president of the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council.

By Laura Sherman • Aug. 20, 2025

Arizona regulators begin process to repeal state’s renewable standard

The rule requires Arizona utilities to obtain 15% of retail electric sales from renewable energy resources by 2025. That goal has been met, but advocates say the rule is still needed.

By Robert Walton • Aug. 20, 2025

To reduce electricity bills, repeal the complexity tax on energy savings

Energy waste can be cut and customer outcomes improved by consolidating and expanding efficiency and housing repair programs, writes L. Michelle Moore, the CEO of Groundswell.

By Michelle Moore • Aug. 19, 2025

NV Energy seeks FERC approval to give wind, solar developers free exit from interconnection queue

Projects with solar or wind components make up nearly 80% of NV Energy's interconnection queue.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 19, 2025

FERC approves cost allocation paths for power plants DOE ordered to run past shutdown dates

The decisions affect Consumers Energy and Constellation Energy, as well as ratepayers in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator and PJM Interconnection footprints.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 18, 2025