A FERC proceeding seeking approval to purchase an old oil-fired power plant in southern Maryland has drawn multiple protests because its buyer wants to co-locate a data center.
FERC fined Terra-Gen nearly $5 million for strategically using its battery storage resources to repeatedly manipulate CAISO’s market over almost two years.
FERC approved a series of revisions related to the design of CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market to support market implementation and avoid disruptions to existing contracts.
One new report flags risks entailed in the massive planned buildout of gas-fired generation, while another predicts a sharp continued rise in gas turbine prices.
MISO has filed with FERC to alter its accounting practices amid a record number of withdrawals from its generator interconnection queue.
RTO Insider
A California Senate committee has advanced a bill that would allow load-serving entities to trade capacity on an hourly basis to meet the state’s slice-of-day resource adequacy requirements.
After a winter of record prices, ISO-NE wholesale market values fell back to more typical levels in March amid milder temperatures and lower gas prices.
FERC accepted SPP’s tariff revisions to add an ATRR for transmission service using existing and any future facilities that Upper Missouri Power Cooperative owns and places under the RTO’s functional control.
ERO Insider
Speakers at a workshop hosted by Texas RE reminded attendees that compliance with NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection standards is not enough to ensure security.
NERC asked FERC to deny a request to mandate studies on the grid's vulnerability to electromagnetic pulses and solar storms, saying its current reliability standards are sufficient.
FERC approved a settlement between Georgia Power and SERC Reliability that will see the utility pay $175,000 for violating NERC's reliability standards.
NetZero Insider
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill paved the way for the development of new nuclear plants by removing a permitting rule that for four decades created a “de facto moratorium” on reactor construction.
New York has far exceeded the interim target on its energy storage roadmap — 1.5 GW of capacity by the end of 2025 — but has more work ahead as it pursues 6 GW by 2030.
The Energy Information Administration’s 2026 Annual Energy Outlook forecasts major demand growth in the coming years.





















