A new solar farm has been proposed for Benton County, Wash., while another massive renewable project in the county has passed one state hurdle.

At a California Energy Commission workshop Wednesday, advocates of offshore wind urged state officials to plan for far more wind than is currently contemplated.

Despite current supply chain problems, energy storage is just beginning to capture its potential, developers told the RE+ Southeast conference.

Drought, wildfires, plant retirements and transmission outages have elevated the risk of supply shortfalls in the West, Texas, MISO and SPP, NERC said.

A month after its capacity auction revealed a Midwestern supply scarcity, MISO’s Independent Market Monitor and a MISO vice president debated the path forward.

A new federal lab designed to speed up research into grid storage technologies should be up and running by the fall of 2023, barring supply chain issues.

Texas grid leaders met with reporters to once again allay concerns about ERCOT’s management of the state’s electric supply.

Parts of New Jersey’s electricity grid are so old and its capacity so limited that new solar projects can’t be connected in certain areas, developers said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed adding $5 billion to his FY 2022-23 budget plan to secure 5,000 MW for grid reliability this summer and in coming years.

Anxiety over clogged interconnection queues and the need for more interregional transmission loomed large at the Energy Bar Association’s annual meeting.