BOEM lifted a stop-work order on the Empire Wind 1 project in a deal that will have New York work on expanding pipelines into the Northeast, a goal the White House has publicly sought since shortly after President Trump took office.
The Tennessee Valley Authority crossed a milestone May 20, becoming the first U.S. utility to request a construction permit for a small modular nuclear reactor.
Federal analysts expect U.S. hydropower generation to increase 7.5% over 2024 totals, which were the lowest in at least 14 years.
California-based Turlock Irrigation District has agreed to join CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in 2027.
New York’s major utilities and its energy development entity have been cleared to administer $5 billion for energy efficiency and building electrification through 2030.
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The California Public Utilities Commission has proposed a new framework that would take a “more programmatic approach” to load-serving entities’ resource procurement requirements compared with the agency’s recent practice of issuing procurement orders as needed.
ICF International is projecting another rise in the rate of demand growth as more data centers seek to plug into the grid in the coming years, with a 25% increase from 2023 levels by 2030 and 78% by 2050.
CAISO selected Viridon, a power infrastructure development firm, to finance, build and operate new transmission lines and infrastructure in Humboldt County for planned offshore wind development.
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Experts in the data center field discussed the challenges of meeting accelerating computational load during the PJM Annual Meeting, held in the core of Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley.
Former FERC Chair Neil Chatterjee and other panelists in an ACORE-hosted webinar warned that grid stakeholders need to put aside old ways of thinking to address growing reliability challenges.
FERC's summer assessment shows rising demand and prompted Chair Mark Christie to discuss recent developments in PJM.
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has filed a major energy bill that her administration says would save ratepayers $10 billion over the next decade.
The amount of stress to the grid posed by data centers is so uncertain it could hamper New Jersey’s effort to plan new generation and transmission, speakers at a clean energy conference said.
Experience with small modular reactors (like other nuclear) is for massive cost overruns, writes columnist Steve Huntoon.