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December 17, 2025

Public Policy

DOE
Energy Department Staff Cuts Just Getting Started

Government job cuts have been a major theme of the Trump administration, and while DOE has faced some cuts former officials say are already significant, many more employees are going to leave in the months to come.

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Pathways Initiative Seeks $7.1M to Fund RO

The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee estimates it will cost about $7.1 million to launch the independent regional organization that eventually will oversee energy markets in the West.

Forward Market Design LLC
FERC Resource Adequacy Conference Comes with Markets at a Crossroads

FERC will hold a two-day technical conference June 4-5, where it will look at resource adequacy issues in the ISO/RTO markets, with most of the focus on those with capacity markets.

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BLM Proposes Accommodations for Greenlink North Line
The Bureau of Land Management has proposed changes to three of its Northern Nevada resource management plans to accommodate NV Energy’s 235-mile Greenlink North transmission project.
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Growing Clean Energy Sector in Texas May Avoid Damaging Legislation

ERCOT's blossoming clean energy sector has been threatened by bills that would dampen its growth and future investment, but many of those laws appear to have fallen by the wayside in the Texas legislature's closing days.

Bonneville Power Administration
BPA Predicts Energy Deficits Over Next 10 Years

The Bonneville Power Administration predicts even steeper energy deficits among its network of dams under firm conditions compared to predictions from 2024.

Convergent Energy and Power
N.J. BPU Backs New Grid Modernization Rules
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has approved new grid modernization rules the agency says will make the process of launching new distributed sources easier and faster.
Yes Energy
MISO: New Orleans Area Outages Owed to Scant Gen, Congestion, Heat

MISO has shed light on the reasons behind the May 25 load-shed event in southeast Louisiana, describing a system taxed by early summer heat and rife with congestion and unavailable generation.

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Amended ‘Pathways’ Bill Boosts — and Complicates — Calif. Protections
The latest version of California’s “Pathways” bill strips out a previous amendment that would have given state regulators authority to order utilities to withdraw from the RO under certain circumstances.
Cooperative Energy
MISO Going for 2nd Attempt to Fast Track Power Plants in Queue
MISO confirmed it will make a second bid to FERC to establish a temporary fast lane in its interconnection queue, this time limiting the process to 50 generation projects.

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