Resetting net zero: What next?

Governments, businesses and investors should seek to maintain long-term investment in competitive technologies while taking a proactive approach to sectors most vulnerable to the current slowdown.

By Adrian Del Maestro • May 15, 2025

A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. Utilities are wising up.

One expert estimated that speculative interconnection requests were five to 10 times more than the number of actual data centers, but the scale of the problem remains elusive.

By Brian Martucci • May 15, 2025

IFMA adds its name to Energy Star fight

Facility managers rely on the program for making informed decisions about commercial appliances and building systems, the group says.

By Robert Freedman • May 14, 2025

NOAA stops tracking cost of extreme weather and climate disasters

The data can't be replicated by city and state governments, scientists say.

By Robyn Griggs Lawrence • May 14, 2025

Thousands of energy experts are leaving federal government. Here’s where they should go.

State PUCs desperately need skilled energy professionals to advance economic development, energy affordability and national security goals.

By Charles Hua, Abe Silverman and Ted Thomas • May 14, 2025

House GOP proposes early phaseout of IRA clean energy tax credits

The House Ways and Means Committee’s draft budget scales back the technology-neutral clean energy investment and production tax credits while leaving carbon capture credits largely intact.

By Brian Martucci • May 13, 2025

Trump DOE’s latest move would roll some energy standards back decades

Legal challenges are likely to the U.S. Department of Energy’s efforts to repeal or alter 47 energy efficiency, climate reporting and other regulations, experts said.

By Meris Lutz • May 13, 2025

The AI energy emergency that wasn’t

The  Army Corps of Engineers’  use of an emergency regulation to fast-track permitting for almost 700 projects may backfire because of legal delays and reversals.

By Dan Farber • May 13, 2025

Virginia utility-scale VPP pilot mandate is first amid national push

The new law requires Dominion Energy to propose a virtual power plant pilot to state regulators by December. Similar bills have been introduced in other states.  

By Brian Martucci • May 12, 2025

America’s moment to secure its critical mineral future

As Congress works through reconciliation, we have a historic opportunity to reassert American industrial strength, safeguard national security and power a cleaner, technologically competitive future.

By Heather Reams • May 12, 2025

Regional power system planning could save Western states $3.25B: UC San Diego

A regional transmission organization could help maximize savings, but Western states don’t need to go that far or agree on clean energy policies to realize economic benefits, a study says.

By Emma Penrod • May 12, 2025

Tax reform readiness: Steps to prepare now

Essential steps finance leaders should take now to understand the implications of a rate change.

By Lee Watkins, Chief Strategy Officer, PowerPlan • May 12, 2025

IRA’s fate unclear as Republicans look to finance megabill

The Inflation Reduction Act is a likely target in a plan to cut $2 trillion in spending, but certain provisions have benefited red districts.

By Diana DiGangi • May 8, 2025

PJM, utilities urge FERC to dismiss call for colocation settlement talks

“The Commission should not pause its work on offering the industry guidance on a path forward for co-location arrangements,” PJM said.

By Ethan Howland • May 8, 2025

New Jersey BPU eyes potential for new nuclear

The Garden State may need 10 GW of firm, clean power by 2035, and state utility regulators want to know if nuclear can help fill that need, according to a request for information.

By Ethan Howland • May 7, 2025

Trump administration plans to end popular Energy Star program

The program has helped consumers save more than $500 billion in energy costs and 5 trillion kWh since it launched in 1992 under President George H.W. Bush.

By Robert Walton • May 7, 2025

PJM, others urge FERC to dismiss ratepayer advocates’ capacity auction complaint

“Entertaining the complaint would signal to all investors in commission-regulated markets that they cannot rely on any clearing price, as they would become at risk for adjustment at any time,” PJM said.

By Ethan Howland • May 6, 2025

At-risk IRA tax credits drive industrial-scale infrastructure in red and blue states

The Inflation Reduction Act is a bipartisan success story, but if these tax credits disappear, so will plans for future factories, jobs and the chance to reclaim our industrial leadership.

By Joby Bernstein and Claire Petersen • May 5, 2025

PJM fast-tracks 11.8 GW, mainly gas, to bolster power supplies

Natural gas-fired generation accounts for 69% of selected Reliability Resource Initiative capacity, followed by batteries at 19% and nuclear at 12%.

By Ethan Howland • May 5, 2025

Exelon data center pipeline doubles to 36 GW since year-end

However, Exelon faces economic uncertainty “as we all navigate updated tariff policies, federal budget reprioritization and increased energy supply costs,” CEO Calvin Butler said.

By Ethan Howland • May 2, 2025

Will tariffs help or hurt the US energy storage industry? It’s complicated, experts say

Battery system costs have already soared past 2023 levels, one analyst says, but insiders are cautiously optimistic for a more resilient supply chain in the longer run.

By Brian Martucci • May 1, 2025

PSE&G open to utility-owned generation to tackle supply needs: CEO LaRossa

In the near term, New Jersey’s largest utility is eyeing options to help customers afford their electricity bills, which are poised to jump 17%, Ralph LaRossa said.

By Ethan Howland • May 1, 2025

Northeast states to seek transmission proposals between PJM, ISO-NE, New York

“There are likely low-hanging fruit, no-regrets interregional transmission projects that current transmission planning approaches are failing to identify,” Katie Dykes, a Connecticut official, said.

By Ethan Howland • April 30, 2025

Transmission at a crossroads: Policy must reflect today’s infrastructure needs

State and federal “rights-of-first-refusal” would re-establish certainty by relying on local transmission owners to promptly move ahead with needed power line projects.

By Devin McMackin • April 29, 2025

EPRI’s Open Power AI Consortium plans to fuel grid modernization with data sharing

Utilities, tech companies and regulators are facing a conundrum: Utilities want to use AI, but AI needs access to unavailable utility data to be effective.

By Herman K. Trabish • Updated April 29, 2025