Articles by James Downing

Speakers at a WRI webinar said any updates to permitting necessary to meet long-term clean energy goals need to leave key environmental protections in place.

FERC's latest budget request seeks additional funds and employees to carry its core functions in fiscal year 2024.

Experts explained to ACORE's Policy Forum what hurdles remain to be overcome after Congress passed the most ambitious clean energy legislation last year.

Democratic officials told ACORE that a package emerging from House Republicans is a poor start to addressing permitting concerns.

DERs are still a couple years away from actually participating at the wholesale level as FERC works on RTO and ISO compliance with Order 2222.

The NCUC chair consumer advocate faced lawmakers' questions on the state's first-ever rotating outages stemming from a December storm.

Vistra agreed to buy Energy Harbor and will create a new unit with 7.8 GW of zero-carbon generation, separate from its 32 GW of fossil fuel plants.

The D.C. Circuit threw out a challenge from the Midwest Ozone Group to EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.

NYPSC won praise for its implementation of a law to speed up transmission development, but parties said much work remains in order to meet clean energy goals.

Citing reliability concerns, the NRC OK'd a request to keep Diablo Canyon Power Plant's two reactors running past their license expirations in 2024 and 2025.