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OpinionGas utility planning processes should be more like their electric utility counterparts
It is not in the best interest of captive utility customers to let long-lived gas delivery infrastructure spending go unvetted, especially if that infrastructure may no longer be fully utilized in the near future.
By Sarah Steinberg & Brad Cebulko • March 4, 2024 -
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EPA pulls existing gas plants from proposed power plant carbon reduction rules
The agency plans to soon start a stakeholder process to develop greenhouse gas reduction standards for existing gas-fired power plants.
By Ethan Howland • March 4, 2024 -
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TrendlineSustainability
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.
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FERC rejects West Virginia PSC, market monitor complaints seeking access to PJM committee
FERC Commissioner Mark Christie dissented from the decision on one complaint, saying state regulators need more power in regional transmission organizations.
By Ethan Howland • March 4, 2024 -
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SEC to vote on climate disclosure rule next week
The agency will “consider whether to adopt rules to require registrants to provide certain climate-related information” at a March 6 open commission meeting.
By Zoya Mirza • March 1, 2024 -
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Biden taps 3 for FERC seats amid concerns over potential lack of quorum
"A fully-seated, bipartisan FERC provides more opportunity for advancing long-lasting, sensible energy infrastructure policy,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., said.
By Ethan Howland • March 1, 2024 -
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Nevada regulators set to approve NV Energy’s $2B IRP amendment, including new gas resources
Critics say the utility has used the integrated resource plan amendment process to advance projects with insufficient scrutiny.
By Robert Walton • March 1, 2024 -
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Biden nominates 3 FERC commissioners
"A fully-seated, bipartisan FERC provides more opportunity for advancing long-lasting, sensible energy infrastructure policy,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., said.
By Ethan Howland • Feb. 29, 2024 -
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Deep Dive2024 PJM Outlook: Tough choices loom on capacity market, plant retirements, transmission planning
Ensuring that enough new generation comes online to replace retiring power plants is a key issue that threads through PJM’s expected focus this year, stakeholders and observers said.
By Ethan Howland • Feb. 29, 2024 -
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SEC to scrap scope 3 reporting from climate disclosure rule: Reuters
The omission could create a compliance conundrum for companies that still need to report scope 3 under European Union and California climate rules.
By Zoya Mirza • Feb. 27, 2024 -
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SPP proposes renewable, thermal resource accreditation reforms aimed at bolstering reliability
The Southwest Power Pool’s current accreditation for wind, solar and storage fails to account for their reliability value decreasing as more are added to the grid, according to the grid operator.
By Ethan Howland • Feb. 27, 2024 -
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Deep DiveCongressional action on energy permitting remains stuck, but states, developers are finding solutions
States are resolving local objections to projects through community engagement while transmission developers are making innovative use of existing rights-of-way to bypass permitting logjams.
By Herman K. Trabish • Feb. 27, 2024 -
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OpinionAdvancing energy justice: A new paradigm in grid equity and reliability analysis
The Michigan Public Service Commission’s decision ordering DTE Electric to run regression analyses and understand energy reliability in diverse communities sets a valuable precedent for other Midwestern states.
By Will Kenworthy and Boratha Tan • Feb. 26, 2024 -
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ERCOT, CAISO offer best grid interconnection processes; PJM, ISO-NE the worst, report finds
The scorecard, which ranked PJM Interconnection last with a D-minus, can be used a baseline to measure interconnection reform efforts across the U.S., Advanced Energy United said.
By Ethan Howland • Updated Feb. 26, 2024 -
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Avangrid, other utilities urge FERC to reject ‘false’ claims of insufficient transmission cost reviews
But New England ratepayer advocates support a challenge to the utilities’ alleged failure to adequately share information about their “asset condition” projects.
By Ethan Howland • Feb. 23, 2024 -
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FERC enforcement office seeks $27M from Ketchup Caddy for MISO demand response fraud
The CEO of the company, which had “no legitimate market activity,” according to FERC staff, said he planned to “[d]o this for just a couple of years, make a bunch of money to put kids through school .... and no one’s hurt.”
By Ethan Howland • Feb. 22, 2024 -
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5 takeaways from the investor-owned utility sector’s day on Wall Street
Utilities will likely issue equity this year to fund the energy transition’s record capital spending, Edison Electric Institute officials said.
By Robert Walton • Feb. 21, 2024 -
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Colorado cities urge FERC to reject cost allocation for Xcel’s $2B Power Pathway transmission project
The Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska, which serves four states, along with three of its municipal utility members in Colorado, contend they won’t benefit from the project and shouldn’t pay for any of it.
By Ethan Howland • Updated Feb. 23, 2024 -
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California PUC approves plan to add 56 GW of clean energy resources by 2035
The resources are needed to meet the California Public Utilities Commission’s new 25 MMT annual electric sector carbon emissions target for 2035, a nearly 60% drop from the 2020 level.
By Kavya Balaraman • Feb. 20, 2024 -
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Domestic uranium enrichment gets $2.7B boost from US Senate
The Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2024 funds conventional and advanced U.S. uranium enrichment capabilities, but the bill faces an uncertain future in the U.S. House of Representatives.
By Brian Martucci • Feb. 16, 2024 -
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FERC OKs cold weather reliability standards, and 5 other takeaways from Thursday’s open meeting
The agency intends to move forward in the “very near future” on its pending regional transmission planning and cost allocation rule, per Chairman Willie Phillips.
By Ethan Howland • Feb. 16, 2024 -
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State officials blame federal regulation for higher energy prices: ‘Customers are getting hurt.’
Proposed federal limits on fossil fuel power plants will further raise costs and weaken reliability, three state energy officials told a U.S. House subcommittee on Wednesday.
By Robert Walton • Feb. 15, 2024 -
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State utility regulators urge PJM, MISO to bolster joint interregional transmission planning
“Expanding transfer capacity between regions can help to improve grid resilience and minimize the negative impacts of extreme weather events,” OMS and OPSI told the grid operators.
By Ethan Howland • Feb. 14, 2024 -
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Arizona Corporation Commission moves to eliminate energy efficiency rules, renewables targets
The move is “a big step backwards” for Arizona, said Mark Kresowik, senior policy director for the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
By Robert Walton • Feb. 13, 2024 -
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Maryland ratepayer advocate urges FERC to reject PJM’s $5.1B transmission cost allocation plan
Virginia — not other states — should pay for transmission costs driven by its data center incentive policy, the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel said.
By Ethan Howland • Updated Feb. 14, 2024 -
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EU passes domestic clean energy act, trailing US supply chain and climate bills
The European Commission agreed to the Net-Zero Industry Act to increase domestic manufacturing, following similar domestic production acts passed by the U.S.
By Lamar Johnson • Feb. 12, 2024
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