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June 19, 2025
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NERC Responds to MISO IMM’s LTRA Criticism
MISO IMM David Patton
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NERC acknowledges it used mismatched data to calculate MISO's risk level in its Long-Term Reliability Assessment and plans to release a revised report soon.

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DOE’s Wright Fields Senate Questions About Funded Project Reviews
Senators asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright about project spending his department has put under review or already cut when he testified about the Trump administration’s 2026 budget request.
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Industry Sees Challenges as BPA Considers ‘Radical’ Updates to Transmission Planning
The Bonneville Power Administration faces monumental challenges in implementing actions to meet the Pacific Northwest’s needs once it lifts its pause on transmission planning.
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Georgia Power’s Plant McDonough-Atkinson in Smyrna, Ga.
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Georgia Power Calls Largest-ever 50-50 Hydrogen Test a Success
A gas-fired plant outside Atlanta has completed what is described as the largest 50% hydrogen-natural gas blending test of its kind in the world.
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Year of reporting for the ERO's open instances of noncompliance as of the end of 2023 (in blue) and 2024 (in green). NERC said this graph shows the ERO's progress in resolving its open cases.
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NERC Details Performance Metrics in FERC Filing

NERC outlined the metrics it plans to use to evaluate itself for its next performance assessment, in keeping with a 2024 FERC order.

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Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s Weston RICE units. We Energies has proposed a similar setup in Kenosha County.
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MISO’s Queue Fast Lane, Take 2, Nets Déjà vu Arguments

MISO’s repackaged proposal to establish a temporary fast track in its interconnection queue resulted in a familiar division among MISO stakeholders, with vertically integrated utilities in favor and clean energy organizations opposed.

Oregon Governor Signs Bill to Create Data Center Rate Class
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed a bill designed to ensure that operators of large data centers pay for grid upgrades needed to supply them with electricity while avoiding shifting those costs to residential ratepayers.
FERC Issues Guidance to Comply with Trump Order on Criminal Referrals

FERC issued a notice saying it would coordinate with the attorney general on what crimes it would refer to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.

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Germany's plan for phasing out coal-fired power plants by 2038, as approved by the cabinet in January 2020.
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RF: Germany’s Reliability Crisis Holds Lessons for U.S.
In a webinar, ReliabilityFirst staff discussed Germany's difficulties meeting electric demand in recent years and lessons for U.S. utilities.
Texas RE Adds AI as Risk to ERCOT Region’s Reliability
The Texas Reliability Entity has added key risks related to artificial intelligence and large loads as part of its annual reliability and regional risk assessment of the ERCOT grid.
NERC State of Reliability Report Highlights Progress and New Challenges

NERC released its State of Reliability report, which found the bulk power system remains highly reliable and underlying performance metrics such as frequency response and misoperation rates are improving or remain stable.

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Lazard’s 2025 report on the levelized cost of energy breaks down the economics of multiple forms of power generation under various scenarios.
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Lazard: Solar and Wind Retain Lowest LCOEs

Lazard’s latest analysis of the levelized costs of energy concludes that wind and solar are the least-expensive new-build power generation for the 10th year in a row.

Senate Finance Committee Looks to Eliminate Energy Tax Credits in 2028

The Senate Finance Committee released its proposal for the reconciliation bill, which cuts clean energy tax credits off entirely starting Jan. 1, 2028, but includes some changes from the version of the legislation that passed the House in May.

Nuclear Conference Opens amid Momentous Times

The American Nuclear Society’s annual conference was well-timed in 2025, as the industry is riding a wave of optimism on a series of recent policy and market moves.

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New England Transmission Owners Add $95M to Asset Condition List

Asset condition costs in New England have grown by $95 million since March, according to an update to the asset condition project list presented by the region’s transmission owners.

MISO IMM Contends he Should Have Role in Tx Planning Oversight

The MISO Independent Market Monitor insisted to FERC that MISO’s own rules allow him to assess transmission. Market monitors of other grid operators backed him up.

PJM Proposes Changes to Large Load Forecasting

PJM presented changes to its submission and review processes for large load adjustments that are intended to provide stakeholders with more transparency before they are included in future load forecasts, as well as a draft proposal to standardize how it determines what share of LLAs will be included in its forecasts.

NV Energy Seeks OK for $500M Wildfire Self-insurance Policy

With the risk of catastrophic wildfire growing in Nevada and across the West, NV Energy is seeking approval for a $500 million wildfire liability self-insurance policy.

IESO capacity makeup in 2024
IESO
IESO Seeks to Shore up Capacity Market

The IESO Technical Panel approved posting for comment several revisions to the ISO’s capacity market rules and manual intended to reduce the occurrence of unfulfilled commitments.

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PJM Stakeholders Propose Cost Allocation Models for DOE Emergency Orders
The Members Committee is set to vote on several proposals drafted by PJM and stakeholders to determine how to allocate costs associated with generators required to remain online through DOE’s emergency orders under FPA Section 202(c).
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Utility workers restore power in Louisiana after 2023's Hurricane Ida. One of the projects voted on by the SC involves long-term planning for extreme weather events.
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NERC Standards Committee Reviews Project Prioritization

Members of NERC's Standards Committee discussed the ERO's efforts to streamline its standards process at their quarterly in-person meeting.

NERC RSTC Tackles Priority Projects in Quarterly Meeting
At the quarterly meeting of NERC’s Reliability and Security Technical Committee, NERC Chief Engineer Mark Lauby reminded members that the industry is facing “a busy time” dealing with the growing number of risks to grid reliability.
MISO IMM Blasts NERC Long-term Assessment, Says RTO in Good RA Spot
MISO Monitor David Patton called NERC’s Long-Term Reliability Assessment inaccurate for labeling the RTO a high-risk area.
Wright Addresses Recent Orders Keeping Power Plants Open at Hearing

Energy Secretary Chris Wright talked about the process behind two recent orders mandating power plants that had planned to retire to keep running this summer at a House hearing that was focused on DOE's budget.

A map from Yes Energy showing generation retirements, the rate of which was a key factor prompting FERC's technical conference on resource adequacy this week.
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FERC Dives into Thorny Resource Adequacy Issues at Tech Conference

FERC spent June 4-5 looking into resource adequacy across the markets it regulates. 

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AI Adds New Dimension to Utility Cyber Threats, Experts Say

Artificial intelligence may be helping employees streamline a variety of tasks, but AI is also making work easier for threat actors plotting cyber attacks against electric utilities, experts said during a WECC webinar.

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New Pipelines Unlikely for New England, Experts Say

Despite interest from the Trump administration, new gas pipelines into New England remain unlikely due to a lack of counterparties willing to pay for the new lines, energy industry experts said.

N.J. Lawmakers Bless Wide-ranging Energy Options

New Jersey legislators have pushed ahead with a series of energy proposals, among them plans to harness wave, nuclear and storage.

D.C. Circuit Rejects Kimball Wind’s Bid for Substation Reimbursement

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Kimball Wind LLC’s petition to overturn a FERC decision rejecting the wind developer’s bid for $5.9 million in reimbursement from WAPA for contributing to a substation expansion in Nebraska.

Trump Directs Feds to Withdraw from Deal on Snake River Dams

President Trump issued a memo directing the federal government to withdraw from a deal with four tribes and two states that considered the future operation of four dams on the Lower Snake River and eventually could have led to their breach.

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N.Y. OKs 642 MW of Urgent Infrastructure Upgrades

New York authorized its first tranche of projects under a 2024 order that sought to address urgent existing and anticipated electric infrastructure needs as the state pushes to decarbonize transportation and buildings. 

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N.J. Gubernatorial Picks Differ Sharply over Energy

A Republican vigorously pushing gas and nuclear generation will face a Democrat who favors solar as a way to meet the state’s growing electricity needs.