Duke Energy is considering nuclear for its long-term plans, but it may take decades before the resource is being installed at scales similar to gas plants, solar or wind today.

Annual energy demand in the Pacific Northwest could reach between 31,000 and 44,000 MW by 2046, according to the NWPCC's initial 20-year forecast.

New amendments to the proposed Pathways bill would include protections against possible attempts by President Donald Trump to influence California energy markets, such as pushing the state to buy coal-fired generation.

ERCOT stakeholders endorsed a protocol change that creates a process to compensate market participants when a constrained management plan or switching instruction trips a generator that otherwise would have stayed online.

The Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission released a strategic action plan for creating an interstate planning process for transmission projects that span the seams of their grid operators.

A large confederation of consumer groups defended its complaint against local transmission planning processes, arguing FERC needs to address the issue of increasing spending in the often lightly regulated space.

TURN is finding some success in getting California state lawmakers to address the group’s concerns about what the Trump administration might do if the state moves forward with plans to hand over control of CAISO’s energy markets to an independent regional organization.

Xcel CEO Bob Frenzel tried to reassure the investment community that the company is better prepared for a trade war and President Trump's tariffs during a first-quarter earnings call.

A collective of consumer groups has invoked a recent letter from the U.S. Department of Justice in an attempt to get FERC to act on its three-year-old complaint against MISO deferring to state right of first refusal laws in regional planning.