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The North Carolina Utilities Commission approved Duke Energy's first carbon plan to comply with state law calling for carbon neutrality by 2050.

The Tennessee Valley Authority will embark on a $216 million pilot project to install solar panels on top of a sealed coal ash dump.

The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed an RTO-sponsored package to standardize variable operations and maintenance costs.

The PJM Operating Committee has endorsed the winter weekly reserve target values, which are used to coordinate planned outages scheduled during winter.

Xcel Energy said that it will cease to deal in coal nationwide by 2030 with the accelerated retirement of a Texas coal plant.

Texas regulators are working with the industry to streamline the interconnection processes for all resources at both the transmission and distribution levels.

Carbon dioxide emissions by the 100 largest U.S. electric power producers increased 7% from 2020 to 2021, Ceres reported in its annual benchmarking analysis.

PJM's real-time LMPs and congestion costs both spiked in the first half of 2022, driven by increasing fuel prices and loads, the IMM reported.

PJM's Operating Committee heard proposals on improving the dispatch of renewables, changes to max emergency status and a new cold weather advisory.

PJM transmission owners led by Dominion presented the Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee with more than $400 million in supplemental projects.