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March 13, 2026

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N.Y. Embraces All of the Above in Energy Strategy Update

The newest iteration of New York’s energy road map maintains a zero-emission grid as a target but acknowledges an uncertain path to that goal, and likely a longer reliance on fossil fuels.

Hydro-Québec
ISO-NE Discusses Final Sensitivities for Economic Study
ISO-NE presented the final stakeholder-requested sensitivities for its 2024 Economic Study, discussing the potential effects of adding 3.9 GW of hydropower to the Hydro-Québec system.
TransAlta
DOE Orders Retiring Wash. Coal Plant to Stay Online for Winter
Citing an energy “emergency” in the Northwest this winter, DOE ordered TransAlta to continue operating Washington’s last coal-fired generating plant for three months beyond its scheduled retirement at the end of this year.
CAISO
WEM Board OKs Gas Management Changes to Provide ‘Equitable Access’ to Markets
The Western Energy Markets Governing Body approved a set of revisions to CAISO's gas-fired energy generation resource management program after two years of work with stakeholders.
MISO
Can Expanding Transmission Reduce Electricity Costs?
Expanding transmission can reduce electricity costs for consumers, but only if the buildout uses consumer welfare as the North Star and ignores narrow political or business interests, say Travis Fisher and Nick Loris.
Fluence
Brattle/Dragos: Battery Systems Create New Cybersecurity Risks
A new white paper from The Brattle Group and cybersecurity firm Dragos is sounding the alarm about the potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities posed by battery energy storage system infrastructure.
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Permitting Bill Runs into Difficulty Involving Offshore Wind
House Republicans amended the SPEED Act on its way to a floor vote, in order to allow the Trump administration to keep repealing Biden-era permits for offshore wind, which led renewable energy groups to drop support for the bill.
ICF EnergyInsite
ICF Paper Shows Where New Data Centers Can be Sited Quickly
ICF International has released a new paper discussing where data centers could be sited.
Flo Charging Stations
States Sue Trump Administration to Recover EV Charger Funding
Sixteen states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration in an effort to recover billions of dollars in funding for EV charging infrastructure.
SPP
FERC OKs SPP Extension of Dispatchable Interchange Transactions into Real-time

FERC approved an SPP tariff change that adds real-time dispatchable interchange transactions to its Integrated Marketplace, extending the current day-ahead market dispatchable transaction model into the real-time balancing market.


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