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A new group formed to represent electric ratepayer interests has raised questions about interactions between MISO’s Independent Market Monitor and the state regulatory agencies seeking to overturn the RTO’s $22 billion long-range transmission portfolio through a FERC complaint.
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FERC rejected a complaint from the PJM Independent Market Monitor asking it to determine the RTO holds the authority to deny transmission service for large loads that cannot be reliably served/
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The size and configuration of day-ahead markets in the West will greatly impact electricity bills and grid reliability, says the Environmental Defense Fund.
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CAISO’s Department of Market Monitoring urged the ISO to replace its interim congestion revenue allocation rules under its forthcoming Extended Day-Ahead Market “as soon as practicable.”
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NERC told FERC it only received a single report of a qualifying cybersecurity incident under reliability standard CIP-008-6.
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While domestic grid planning’s regional nature offers different policy examples, countries around the world offer even more diverse examples that could inform domestic transmission policy, experts said at an Americans for a Clean Energy Grid webinar.
The return of demand growth is something new in the electricity industry, especially as it is being driven by individual consumers whose load can exceed the peak demand of a small state, and it is giving new life to an old argument in state legislatures: restructuring the industry.
CAISO is moving toward approval of an $8.5 million financing plan for the Regional Organization for Western Energy’s start-up costs.
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FERC approved a slate of updates to NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection standards intended to improve grid security while enabling the use of new technologies.
A new standards development project will be a testbed for some of the proposals by NERC's Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force.
Summarizing the findings from its 2025 Level 2 alert on large loads, NERC warned most entities have not met its recommendations.
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The Department of the Interior announced an agreement with TotalEnergies for the company to give up offshore wind leases.
Puget Sound Energy and Avista told the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission they have taken steps to build clean energy resources quickly to qualify for expiring federal tax credits, while voicing concern that limited transmission capacity and the state’s greenhouse gas targets pose challenges.
A new report by a nuclear advocacy organization lays out some of the obstacles facing the imagined U.S. nuclear renaissance and suggests ways to address them.
