Sempra swoops in with $9.5B Oncor bid after Buffett's Berkshire loses out

Energy Future Holdings abandoned a bid from Berkshire Hathaway after its main creditor criticized Warren Buffett for undervaluing the company's prized asset. 

By Krysti Shallenberger • Aug. 21, 2017

Grid modernization efforts heat up in Q2, but more are on the way

The latest quarterly report from the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center sheds light on policy debates surrounding efforts to boost grid reliability and new technologies. 

By Herman K. Trabish • Aug. 18, 2017

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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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Trump rolls out executive order to speed infrastructure permitting, approval

President Donald Trump's executive order fulfills campaign promises to streamline permitting and approval processes for major infrastructure projects.

By Robert Walton • Aug. 17, 2017

Ohio regulators reject challenge to FirstEnergy subsidy

Last year, state regulators allowed FirstEnergy to collect an additional $204 million annually for grid modernization efforts. Opponents say the extra monies will go toward keeping struggling coal and nuclear plants afloat.

By Robert Walton • Aug. 17, 2017

Is the future finally here for utility-scale solar-plus-storage?

8minutenergy's Carl Stills, vice president of storage integration, and Steve McKenery, vice president of storage solutions, discuss the future of solar-plus-storage.

By Carl Stills, Steve McKenery • Aug. 16, 2017

Solar vs. solar: Suniva defends push for import relief in marathon hearing

Solar stakeholders squared off for 10 hours over the merits of a petition to impose a tariff and floor price for imported crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels. 

By Krysti Shallenberger • Aug. 16, 2017

EPA may rewrite limits on coal plant discharges

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told an appellate court the agency is considering revising limits on toxic heavy metals discharged into lakes and rivers from coal-fired power plants.

By Robert Walton • Aug. 16, 2017

NARUC taps Connecticut regulator Betkoski for president

John Betkoski III will head the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners after President Robert Powelson left for FERC earlier this year.  

By Robert Walton • Aug. 16, 2017

New Mexico regulators amend resource plan to include energy storage

The amendment separates energy storage from demand response in the integrated resource planning rules.

By Peter Maloney • Aug. 15, 2017

Chatterjee: Coal plants should be 'properly compensated' for grid value

The incoming interim FERC Chair said the U.S. should "ensure that coal, along with gas and renewables, continues to be part of our diverse fuel mix" on the agency's podcast. 

By Gavin Bade • Aug. 15, 2017

Study: US GHG emissions will hold steady through Trump administration

A rollback in federal climate policies may not raise emissions significantly, but would still put the U.S. further behind the pace to limit the worst impacts of global warming. 

By Robert Walton • Aug. 15, 2017

Massachusetts issues final proposed solar incentive rules

The Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target program aims to add 1,600 MW of solar capacity through a modified declining block incentive program. 

By Robert Walton • Aug. 15, 2017

Fewer rate cases mean better utility performance and growth, LBNL finds

Performance-based rates with well-designed multi-year rate plans increase utility productivity and reduce customer costs, according to a new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

By Herman K. Trabish • Aug. 15, 2017

Sierra Club sues DOE over grid study 'secrecy'

The environmental group says the agency is slow-walking freedom of information requests "amid suspicion that draft versions of the study may be dramatically altered by political appointees."

By Robert Walton • Aug. 15, 2017

Solar interests say thousands of jobs at risk as US trade panel to meet

Bankrupt solar manufacturer Suniva wants the government to impose tariffs on imported solar panels. But other solar interests say that will destroy the industry. 

By Krysti Shallenberger • Aug. 14, 2017

Ratepayer sues SCE&G as lawmakers scramble for Summer completion plan

A lawsuit seeking class action status accuses South Carolina Electric & Gas of mismanaging $1 billion in ratepayer funds for the abandoned expansion of the Summer nuclear plant.

By Gavin Bade • Aug. 14, 2017

New York launches REV portal to connect businesses, utilities

The REV Connect website aims to help businesses and electric utilities develop new partnerships as part of the state goal to revamp the utility business model. 

By Robert Walton • Aug. 14, 2017

San Diego County looks to rooftop solar, waste diversion to reach climate goals

The county issued a draft climate plan to cut greenhouse gases in unincorporated communities and county government operations and reach 90% renewable energy by 2030. 

By Robert Walton • Aug. 14, 2017

New York court temporarily halts state prohibition on ESCO sales to low-income customers

Last year, New York halted the sale of electricity and natural gas by energy service companies to low-income customers, seeking to protect them from "unscrupulous" marketers.

By Robert Walton • Aug. 14, 2017

Report: Vogtle backers ask Trump to aid nuclear plant expansion

Southern Co. is set to decide by the end of the month whether to complete or abandon the final nuclear plant under construction in the U.S. 

By Robert Walton • Aug. 14, 2017

New FERC quorum faces hefty backlog as market issues loom

The commission is expected to move quickly to clear hundreds of project applications, while nuclear subsidies could wait for a full bench. 

By Robert Walton • Aug. 14, 2017

New Massachusetts rules provide boost toward state climate goals

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court agreed last year with several conservation groups that the state was not on track to meet emissions reductions required by a 2008 law.

By Robert Walton • Aug. 14, 2017

Clock starts on integrating carbon pricing in New York market

Following the release of a new carbon pricing report, the New York ISO says it could integrate the policy into its market dispatch within three years. 

By Krysti Shallenberger • Aug. 11, 2017

Challenge to carbon rules for new power plants delayed indefinitely

The court ruled on the challenge to carbon rules for new and modified power plants just two days after it delayed litigation over separate rules targeting existing plants.

By Krysti Shallenberger • Aug. 11, 2017

Trump names Chatterjee FERC chairman until McIntyre is confirmed

Trump's top pick for chairman, Kevin McIntyre, has a confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Sept. 7.

By Robert Walton • Aug. 10, 2017