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.
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.
Comments about FERC's technical conference argued for a variety of reforms to address resource adequacy.
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.
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.
RTO Insider
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.
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 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.
ERO Insider
MISO’s Independent Market Monitor has expressed lingering dissatisfaction with NERC’s Long-Term Reliability Assessment, even with potentially corrected values.
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 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
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.
How deeply the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will impact clean energy still is being determined.
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.”