In a shift in commission policy, FERC on Thursday for the first time assessed the greenhouse gas emissions of a proposed natural gas infrastructure project and its impact on global climate change (CP20-487). Chair Richard Glick said he was able to reach a compromise with Commissioners Neil Chatterjee and Allison...

FERC’s technical conference Thursday on RTO/ISO credit practices was prompted by the 2018 GreenHat Energy default in PJM. But many of the speakers found a more recent reason for concern: last week’s crisis in ERCOT, where widespread generation outages during subfreezing conditions pushed prices to the $9,000/MWh cap, prompting collateral...

The Senate on Thursday voted 64-35 to confirm former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as the 16th secretary of energy. Later in the evening Granholm was sworn into office by Vice President Kamala Harris. Fourteen Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and former Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair...

FERC Chairman Richard Glick began cleaning house Thursday during his first open meeting at the agency’s helm, refreshing the commission’s work on several issues while closing the books on others. Most notably, the commission issued another Notice of Inquiry seeking comment on revising its 1999 policy statement on natural gas...

FERC Chairman Richard Glick on Thursday told reporters he has five broad priorities in his new role, chief among them ensuring electricity market rules do not discriminate against new technology. Speaking to the press for the first time since President Biden appointed him chair of the commission Jan. 21, Glick...

North Carolina Environmental Secretary Michael Regan, President Biden’s nominee for EPA administrator, appeared well on his way to confirmation Wednesday after coasting through an easy Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing. Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, both Republicans and fellow North Carolinians, set the tone for the hearing...

The Biden administration will not forget about fossil fuel industry workers as it transitions the U.S. to net-zero emissions by 2050, the president’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday. Jennifer Granholm | Senate ENR Committee Republicans on...

FERC spent its last open meeting during President Trump’s tenure welcoming a new member and rejecting proposed orders by outgoing Chairman James Danly. Normally held on the third Thursday of the month, the commission’s monthly open meeting was moved to Tuesday, the day before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. It was...

2020 was a year that strained the very idea of society and tested the United States’ democratic institutions. It began with the acquittal of the president on impeachment charges and ended with his re-election defeat, seen by many as a referendum over his response to the novel coronavirus that has...

Panelists during last week’s fourth annual gridCONNEXT conference expressed tepid hope that the incoming Biden administration will be able to advance some of the policies they say are needed to integrate the surge of renewables coming online and address climate change. Tepid because, as many noted, regardless of the results...