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MISO announced it will honor a request from Texas regulators and include southeastern Texas in its first long-range transmission study for MISO South.
IEA released its 2025 World Energy Outlook, which shows the growing importance of electricity as residents start to adopt air conditioning and data centers and other large loads drive demand growth in rich countries.
Top Massachusetts House members are pushing an expansive energy bill that would scale back several major climate initiatives and programs.
Texas regulators approved ERCOT’s methodologies for determining minimum ancillary services for 2026 while hinting at the same time that they are considering discontinuing the use of conservative operations.
Public Service Company of Colorado and the Polis administration want to keep Unit 2 of the coal-fired Comanche Generating Station running a year longer than planned.
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners passed a resolution urging FERC to resist the Department of Energy’s push to give itself jurisdiction over large loads interconnecting with the grid.
The Organization of MISO States is warning NERC that its possible new resource adequacy standard would tread on states’ planning authority.
The Organization of MISO States estimates MISO is up to approximately 16.6 GW of distributed energy resources across its footprint, up 3 GW from 2024.
SPP state regulators have approved several motions related to FERC Order 1920’s mandate for long-term, scenario-based planning to ensure the system can meet future needs and be fairly compensated.
FERC rejected a complaint from the Kentucky PSC against AEP, finding the utility holding company's practice of spreading supplemental projects around its PJM utilities is still just and reasonable.
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