House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Democrats pressed a senior DOE official on recent decisions affecting PJM, including the agency's orders to keep coal plants running, while another agency shut down offshore wind projects nearing completion.
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A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Department of Energy acted illegally when it terminated several energy grants because they were based in Democratic-leaning states.
N.Y. Governor's Office
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is calling for a “Nuclear Reliability Backbone” of more than 8 GW as part of an all-of-the-above energy solution, which was among the more than 200 initiatives she floated as part of her State of the State Address.
PJM
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated FERC’s decision to order PJM to rerun its 2024/25 capacity auction without a tweak to the parameters for the DPL South zone.
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Regulators attempt to balance the interests of the different stakeholders with the overall goal of promoting the general good. This has become increasingly difficult as regulators must cope with new interests, says energy consultant Kenneth W. Costello.
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Some of the Bonneville Power Administration’s proposals aimed at resuming transmission planning processes risk pushing study timelines to the point where the agency’s customers could run afoul of clean energy targets in Washington and Oregon, stakeholders say.
Tenaska Power Services, the parent company of Berkshire Power at the time of the violations, has agreed to pay a $51,000 penalty to the U.S. Treasury and $78,354 plus interest in disgorgement to ISO-NE.
The Organization of PJM States Inc. presented PJM's Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee with a set of assumptions for the RTO's planning process reflecting state legislation and policies.
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NERC
A new report from NERC discusses findings from a review of load-loss incidents involving cryptocurrency mining facilities in Texas.
IESO released proposed market rule and manual revisions to require synchrophasor data from storage resources.
A federal judge sentenced Peter Karasev to 10 years in prison for bombing transformers owned by Pacific Gas and Electric in 2022 and 2023.
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NextEra Energy Resources
Illinois became the 13th state to adopt a procurement target for storage after Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new bill aimed at shoring up reliability and affordability.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said its approval of the digital upgrade at Constellation Energy’s Limerick Clean Energy Center paves the way for instrumentation and control modernization across the U.S. commercial fleet.
Three of the four developers building wind farms in U.S. waters are challenging the Trump administration’s Dec. 22 order suspending all such construction.
