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COP28 Leaders Divided on Role of Fossil Fuels in Energy Transition

United Nations

Nov 30, 2023AdaptationK Kaufmann

Earth is living through its hottest year on record, and global efforts to curb human-generated greenhouse gas emissions driving those high temperatures are not keeping up with commitments to cut emissions.

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Cindy Levy, McKinsey senior partner, listens to Tom Linebarger discuss energy transition challenges

COP28: The World Can’t Afford an ‘Orderly’ Energy Transition

Nov 30, 2023NetZero InsiderDej Knuckey

Mistakes along the way are essential as the world attempts to solve the complex and broken ecosystem that caused climate change, world leaders said in a COP28 panel discussion.

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Bureau of Land Management

BLM to Consider Changes to Western Transmission Corridors

Nov 30, 2023CAISO/WEIMElaine Goodman

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input on potential changes to about 673 miles of seven designated transmission corridors.

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BPA Delays Decision on Day-ahead Market Choice

Nov 30, 2023CAISO/WEIMRobert Mullin

The Bonneville Power Administration is pulling back from its ambitious schedule for choosing which Western day-ahead market it will join, officials with the federal power marketing administration said during a workshop.

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NERC's Level 2 alert in March was sent to owners of solar generating resources subject to NERC reliability standards, though owners of other solar and battery resources were suggested to implement its recommendations too.

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NERC Troubled by Responses to IBR Alert

Nov 30, 2023NERC & CommitteesHolden Mann

Responses to NERC's Level 2 alert indicate widespread issues with performance of inverter-based resources.

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Statewide system margins could decline over time with growing loads.

NYISO

NYISO’s 10-Year Forecast: Challenges Ahead but No Immediate Needs

Nov 30, 2023NYISOJohn Norris

NYISO’s new 10-year reliability plan finds no “actionable reliability needs,” but warns of narrowing reliability margins.

FERC Upholds Ruling on ISO-NE’s IEP Payments

Nov 30, 2023RTO InsiderJon Lamson

FERC upheld its ruling on a series of updates to ISO-NE’s Inventoried Energy Program which could result in larger payments for generators to keep stored fuel on-site as a grid reliability backstop.

Ameren Files to Recoup Rush Island Closure Costs from Customers

Nov 29, 2023MISOAmanda Durish Cook

Ameren Missouri appears to be making good on plans to close its Rush Island coal plant, which has racked up multiple Clean Air Act violations.

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FERC Approves NERC Standards Process Changes

Nov 29, 2023FERC & FederalHolden Mann

FERC approved new rules intended to streamline NERC's reliability standard development process.

CISA Releases AI Security Guidelines

Nov 27, 2023FERC & FederalHolden Mann

The rapid spread of AI software prompted CISA and other global cybersecurity agencies to create new guidelines for safe development of machine learning tools.

RTO Officials Warn of ‘Messy Transition’ at NARUC Annual Meeting

Nov 19, 2023Resource AdequacyAyla Burnett

MISO CEO John Bear and PJM CEO Manu Asthana expressed concerns about gas-fired resources retiring prematurely at NARUC's Annual Meeting in California.

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Senate ENR Committee

Senate Energy Committee Examines State of Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Nov 30, 2023Company NewsJames Downing

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday looked into the state of advanced nuclear reactors just weeks after NuScale Power and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems terminated a once promising pilot project.

As COP28 Begins, Experts Say Paris Agreement Targets Are Out of Reach

Nov 29, 2023Equity & EconomicsDej Knuckey

Hydrocarbons are not going away anytime soon despite growing climate financing and escalating renewables deployment, industry analysts said.

Whitmer Signs Climate Bills, Including 100% ‘Clean Energy’ Goal

Nov 29, 2023Building DecarbonizationJohn Lindstrom

The bills codify many of the Michigan governor's climate goals, such as giving the Public Service Commission power to approve sites for new large-scale renewable energy projects and a 100 % clean energy goal of 2040

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ETCC

Big Savings for Tx Competition Claimed as FERC Considers a New ROFR

Nov 29, 2023Public PolicyJames Downing

The Electricity Transmission Competition Coalition released a report arguing that decreasing competition in transmission development would cost consumers hundreds of billions of dollars.

FERC Approves Agreement Resolving Versant Audit Issues

Nov 29, 2023ISO-NEJon Lamson

FERC approved an agreement among Versant Power, the Maine Public Utilities Commission and the Office of the Public Advocate related to improperly classified expenses that resulted in the overbilling of wholesale transmission customers.

NYISO Management Committee Briefs: Nov. 29, 2023

Nov 29, 2023NYISOJohn Norris

NYISO stakeholders gave final approval to rules for "internal controllable lines" and revisions to day-ahead market congestion settlement procedures.

PJM Restructuring Executive Team

Nov 28, 2023PJMDevin Leith-Yessian

PJM is restructuring its executive team, the RTO announced Nov. 28, promoting Stu Bresler to executive vice president of market services and strategy and creating two new positions.

The goal of the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative is a single RTO for the region that includes the California grid.

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Western RTO Group Seeking $800K in DOE Funding

Nov 28, 2023CAISO/WEIMRobert Mullin

The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative is seeking $800,000 in federal grants to support its administrative and outreach needs as it works to lay the foundation for an independent Western RTO.

MISO

FERC Wants More Detail on MISO Sloped Demand Curve Plan

Nov 28, 2023MarketsAmanda Durish Cook

FERC wants more description behind MISO’s plan to adopt sloped demand curves for its capacity auctions before it decides the matter.

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FERC

FERC Optimistic About Energy Markets This Winter

Nov 19, 2023Resource AdequacyHolden Mann

Higher-than-average temperatures in the U.S. could reduce electricity and natural gas demand and help prevent shortfalls this winter, FERC staff said in the commission's Winter Energy Market and Electric Reliability Assessment.

NERC ‘Very Happy’ With GridEx VII Participation

Nov 16, 2023Standards/ProgramsHolden Mann

NERC's three-day GridEx exercise tested electric grid stakeholders on their response to a wide variety of threats.

NERC Expecting Packed 2024 for Standards Actions

Nov 15, 2023ERO InsiderHolden Mann

NERC has at least 11 standards projects that must be finished by the end of 2024, staff told the Standards Committee.

California Man Arraigned for Substation Bomb Attacks

Nov 13, 2023FERC & FederalHolden Mann

Peter Karasev pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges of damaging power substations.

State Reliability Council meets at Wolfert's Roost Country Club in Albany, N.Y.

NY Reliability Council OKs Interconnection Standards for Large IBRs

Nov 13, 2023Regional EntitiesJohn Norris

The New York State Reliability Council OK'd interconnection standards for inverter-based resources larger than 20 MW.

FERC

FERC Dives into Reliability Implications of EPA’s Power Plant Rule

Nov 9, 2023Resource AdequacyJames Downing

FERC hosted a senior EPA staffer and heard from the industry and states on how the environmental regulator's latest proposal to cut carbon emissions from power plants will impact grid reliability as it is implemented.

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Nine states so far have adopted the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation, and at least two others are close to doing so.

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CARB to Consider Transferable ZEV Truck Credits

Nov 29, 2023State and Local PolicyElaine Goodman

CARB is exploring whether zero-emission truck credits that manufacturers earn under the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation should be transferable among states.

NJ Launches 2nd Solicitation Under Solar Incentive Program

Nov 29, 2023State and Local PolicyHugh Morley

New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities launched its second attempt to solicit solar projects at a price the agency considers acceptable to ratepayers, driven by the hope that the high costs that derailed a similar solicitation earlier this year have subsided.

Lamont Withdraws Connecticut’s 2035 EV Mandate

Nov 28, 2023State and Local PolicyJon Lamson

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont withdrew regulations that would have required all new vehicles sold in the state to be non-emitting by 2035.

Salton Sea Could Supply Lithium Needs for Decades, Study Finds

Nov 28, 2023Transmission & DistributionElaine Goodman

The Southern California region's supply could produce enough lithium to release the U.S. from its dependence on foreign sources of the key mineral, according to a new report.

At the recent Solar Focus conference, (from left) moderator Charles Washington, BGE; Josh Tulkin, Maryland Sierra Club; Del. Lorig Charkoudian (D); and Kristen Harbeson, Maryland League of Conservation Voters, tackle how the state will achieve its goal of having a 100% clean energy power system by 2035.

Overheard at CHESSA Solar Focus Conference

Nov 27, 2023State and Local PolicyK Kaufmann

Panelists warned that misalignment of technology, regulation and market forces could result in missed opportunities for Maryland to hit its nation-leading climate goals.

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Connecticut Issues Storage RFI Aimed at Vehicle Electrification

Nov 27, 2023State and Local PolicyJon Lamson

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued a request for information regarding energy storage for diesel vehicles.

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