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July 15, 2025
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Grain Belt Funding Appears on Shaky Ground with DOE; Invenergy Firm on Value
A Grain Belt Express tower visualization prepared for landowners
Invenergy
Invenergy is standing by the value of its $11 billion, 800-mile Grain Belt Express transmission project with a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who is said to have pledged to block the line.
Yes Energy acuires RTO Insider LLC
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A Yes Energy produced map shows existing and proposed data centers in PJM.
Yes Energy
RA Technical Conference Comments Urge a Variety of Market Reforms
Comments about FERC's technical conference argued for a variety of reforms to address resource adequacy.
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BPA headquarters in Portland, Ore.
Bonneville Power Administration
BPA Cuts Payments for Tribes, Salmon Restoration Under Revised Cost Projections

BPA said it is revising future power rates by removing millions of dollars of costs associated with a Biden administration agreement with Northwest tribes aimed at restoring salmon habitat and potentially breaching dams on the Snake River.

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Work is shown in progress in 2024 on Vineyard Wind 1 off the Massachusetts coast.
Vineyard Wind
GE Vernova to Pay Nantucket $10.5M for OSW Mess
Nantucket said the agreement with GE Vernova for the Vineyard Wind 1 incident is compensation for costs and losses sustained by the town and local businesses.
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SPP's approval timeline for its demand response policy
SPP
SPP REAL Team Endorses Demand Response Framework
SPP’s REAL Team has endorsed RTO staff’s framework for demand response, allowing the grid operator to bring it forward to the quarterly governance meetings in July and August and to then begin drafting the tariff change.
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FERC Rejects Voltus Appeal for Interim MISO Order 2222 Compliance
MISO is free to keep working toward its 2030 goal of fully incorporating aggregators of distributed energy resources into its markets without an interim participation option.
PJM Stakeholders Discuss Quadrennial Review Proposals
Key challenges in the review are tightening supply and demand, the uncertain cost of new capacity and accounting for changes PJM has made to how it identifies reliability risks and determines the capacity value for different resource types.
Earthjustice Blasts NYISO ‘Power Trends’ Report to State Officials
Earthjustice claimed that NYISO’s latest annual “Power Trends report was full of misleading statements that favor new natural gas generation in a letter to New York state officials.
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MISO's web dashboard at 5 p.m. ET June 23, 2025, during the maximum generation event
MISO
IMM: NERC Reliability Assessment Still Overstating MISO Risk
MISO’s Independent Market Monitor has expressed lingering dissatisfaction with NERC’s Long-Term Reliability Assessment, even with potentially corrected values.
DOE Reliability Report Argues Changes Required to Avoid Outages Past 2030
DOE's report tries to apply one reliability metric to different markets and finds significant new capacity will be needed in some markets to avoid reliability problems by 2030.
NERC Posts CIP Survey, IBR Registration Updates
NERC released an industry survey on emerging security risks to the grid, along with material helping owners of inverter-based resources register with the ERO.
NetZero Insider
Over 1,100 battery energy storage projects are under construction or in development across the ERCOT region, totaling 180.5 GW of planned capacity.
Yes Energy
Stakeholder Soapbox: Texas’ Renewable Energy Bubble
Texas has blown itself a renewable‐energy bubble, spawning so much solar and wind energy that the kind of generation it actually needs sits on the drawing board, says energy consultant Doug Sheridan.
U.S. Clean Energy Sector Faces Cuts and Limitations
How deeply the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will impact clean energy still is being determined.
Stakeholders Mixed on Massachusetts Energy Affordability Bill
Clean energy advocates and a range of stakeholder groups expressed support for a sweeping energy bill introduced by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey while offering suggestions for avoiding “unintended consequences.”
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Bayonne Energy Center in Bayonne, N.J.
Jim Henderson, CC BY-SA-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
FERC Accepts NYISO’s Firm Fuel Tariff Revisions
FERC approved NYISO’s tariff revisions that change the mechanism by which generators opt in to the “firm fuel” capacity accreditation resource class, enable modeling improvements related to natural gas constraints and update the bidding requirements for capacity suppliers.
FERC Faces Challenge in Balancing Executive Order and Legal Requirements
FERC has a tightrope to walk in balancing the requirements of a White House executive order requiring sunset clauses in regulations pertaining to energy, some of which are foundational to the economic regulation of electricity, while keeping its response in line with the Administrative Procedure Act.
Calif. Electric Reliability Outlook Strong, CEC Report Says

California should have plenty of electricity available to meet demand over the next few years, even during extreme weather events or if new energy resource installations are delayed, a California Energy Commission report said.

MISO Tries to Ward Off DR Fraud with New Testing Regime
MISO has filed with FERC to impose more exacting testing on its demand response resources in an effort to deflect fraud.
A PJM map shows overloads on several 500-kV lines identified in a scenario removing offshore wind development in New Jersey and Delaware from its bulk power flow modeling.
PJM
PJM PC/TEAC Briefs: July 8, 2025
The Planning Committee endorsed by acclamation a PJM proposal to rework how it determines which jurisdiction a resource point of interconnection falls under.
PJM presented its average and peak load forecast error for June to the Operating Committee.
PJM
PJM OC Briefs: July 10, 2025

PJM presented manual revisions to reflect the generation deactivation process stakeholders approved in January.

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Texas regulators discuss system resiliency plans during their July 10 open meeting.
AdminMonitor
Texas Public Utility Commission Briefs: July 10, 2025
Texas regulators have approved two more system resiliency plans for state utilities with a focus on wildfire mitigation, following up on a requirement from the 2023 legislative session.
Iran Strikes Likely to Raise Cyber Risk, CISA Warns
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned that the recent conflict with Iran could lead to cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure.
FERC Approves NERC’s Proposed INSM Standard
FERC approved a proposed standard to require internal network security monitoring at high- and medium-impact grid cyber systems while ordering further modifications.
Lauby Says U.S. ‘On the Right Track’ After Iberian Blackout
NERC Chief Engineer Mark Lauby said the North American grid already has measures in place to prevent the mishaps that led to April's blackout in Spain and Portugal.
A man reads by LED light in Madrid on April 28 during the mass outage.
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Expert Says Spain Blackout Unlikely in U.S.
Analysis from a Grid Strategies expert indicates that the issues that caused the Iberian Peninsula blackout are unlikely to occur in the U.S.
Consumers Energy's J.H. Campbell coal plant
Newkirk Electric Associates
Order to Keep Campbell Plant Running Challenged at DOE and FERC
The Michigan attorney general and a group of 10 NGOs have filed for rehearing of DOE's order to keep a coal plant running for this summer, while those parties and others debated the cost recovery filing Consumers Energy made at FERC.
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Hydrogen stations in California
CEC
Report: Hydrogen Transportation Future Down Significantly in California

Hydrogen transportation is struggling to find momentum in California, with the number of open fueling stations decreasing again last year, while fuel prices continue to increase.

Trump Executive Order Targets Renewable Energy Tax Credits
President Trump has issued an executive order targeting renewable energy tax credits as strongly as possible under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
CESA Report Examines State Approaches to Meet Rising Power Demand
A new Clean Energy States Alliance report highlights how states are tackling the rise in electricity demand, which varies based on factors such as the scale of demand growth they face and their geography.
Google Data Center Electricity Consumption Up 27% in 2024
Google is reporting another sharp annual jump in electricity consumption at its data centers but says greenhouse gas emissions were lower in 2024 than 2023, by some measures.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) addressed the House floor on July 3 as the voting process was nearing an end.
Clerk of the House
Trump to Sign Big Beautiful Bill into Law on Independence Day
The House of Representatives voted to pass the Senate version of its budget reconciliation package, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the operation lines of Dominion Energy’s V.C. Summer Nuclear Station through 2062.
Dominion Energy
NRC Makes Series of Streamlining Changes
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has taken multiple steps to speed and smooth the path forward for the U.S. nuclear power industry.