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US electricity prices outpace annual inflation
Analysts cited transmission costs and federal policies for the 3.6% increase the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday.
By Robert Walton • March 13, 2024 -
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OpinionSetting the record straight on Western market options: It’s not just about footprint
Instead of coercing the entire West into a single market, we should turn our attention to facilitating trade among multiple markets as a better use of our time and energy.
By Libby Calnon, Clay Fitchis, Mark Hayden, Bear Prairie, Chris Robinson and Jim Webb • March 11, 2024 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineElectricity Supply and Demand
After nearly two decades of flat demand, U.S. electricity consumption reached an all-time high in 2024 and is expected to continue rising. This trendline brings together the best of Utility Dive’s coverage of emerging trends in supply and demand and the decisions being made today that will impact the power system for years to come.
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California regulators approve new program to expedite power line undergrounding
The program allows utilities with at least 250,000 customers to submit a 10-year undergrounding plan to the California Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, which must approve or reject it within nine months.
By Robert Walton • March 11, 2024 -
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California PUC urges FERC to reject SCE’s early cost recovery request for $1.6B in projects
Southern California Edison contends that being allowed to recover its costs while two transmission projects are being built, instead of waiting until they’re in service, will ease financial strains and customer rate shock.
By Ethan Howland • March 11, 2024 -
Federal lawmakers urge FERC to adopt ‘shared savings’ incentive for grid-enhancing technologies
The push at the federal level comes as grid-enhancing technology bills and projects to relieve grid congestion advance in Minnesota.
By Ethan Howland • March 8, 2024 -
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MISO proposes up to $23B transmission expansion with 765-kV ‘highway’
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator expects to refine its initial Tranche 2 proposal before it heads to a board vote, possibly by September.
By Ethan Howland • March 7, 2024 -
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Texas regulators explore how to attract advanced nuclear projects, structure SMR incentives
States could use 24/7 carbon-free energy credits to attract projects, potentially by stacking them with federal incentives, according to Nuclear Energy Institute officials.
By Robert Walton • March 5, 2024 -
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Colorado PUC proposes rules for Xcel, Tri-State, Black Hills to join RTO, day-ahead markets
The proposal requires any organized wholesale market to allow Colorado utilities to maintain priority rights to their grid interconnections for resources needed to meet their loads.
By Ethan Howland • March 5, 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 -
OpinionPump the brakes on big transmission
Our current policy enthusiasm for transmission has moved from a responsible cocktail before dinner to a bacchanalia of Roman proportions.
By Vincent Duane • Feb. 28, 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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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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PJM, 3 other RTOs propose steps to improve gas-electric sector coordination, boost reliability
Market enhancements, operational improvements and regulatory reforms are needed to improve gas-electric coordination, according to grid operators serving much of the U.S.
By Robert Walton • 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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NextGen Highways launches effort to build transmission lines along public right of way in Minnesota
A first-of-its-kind coalition could speed up transmission infrastructure siting in Minnesota and provide a blueprint for similar state initiatives elsewhere.
By Brian Martucci • Feb. 20, 2024 -
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Sponsored by SenseGood things come to those who wait: Massachusetts set to be national example with AMI 2.0
Massachusetts can show us all that with patience and smart policy, it’s possible to deliver on an AMI 2.0 smart meter rollout that not just ticks all the boxes but shows us how to build a better box.
By Colin Gibbs, VP Energy Services, Sense • Feb. 20, 2024 -
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GETs could facilitate 6.6 GW of clean energy in five PJM states, saving $1B a year: RMI
Grid-enhancing technologies can be used to increase the capacity of the existing transmission system, providing a quick, low-cost pathway for bringing new generation online, RMI said in a report Thursday.
By Ethan Howland • Feb. 15, 2024 -
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FERC, NERC to analyze power sector performance during January winter storms
The assessment will look at improvements to grid reliability made since Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and Winter Storm Elliott in 2022.
By Robert Walton • Feb. 14, 2024 -
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Opinion
The hidden costs of competition over new transmission infrastructure
A right of first refusal is not a reward for any utilities or builders at the expense of others. It merely recognizes the need for new infrastructure and provides a first opportunity to those already operating existing infrastructure.
By Benjamin Dierker • Feb. 14, 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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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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OpinionWhat utility commissioners should know about a flawed Western day-ahead market study
The study reads like an advertisement for a product that’s missing important context and comparisons — and as individual utility filings appear in dockets around the West, public utility commissioners should approach it as such.
By Bob Jenks • Feb. 9, 2024 -
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Interregional transmission would grow 126%, to 191 GW, by 2035 under BIG WIRES bill: report
The biggest percentage growth in interregional transmission expansion would occur in the Southeast, according to analysis by the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.
By Ethan Howland • Feb. 8, 2024
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