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December 5, 2025

State & Regional

NREL
‘There’s Room for Everybody’: California Ports Prepare for OSW Development
At a two-day workshop held by the CEC, offshore wind experts and fishermen identified many challenges associated with building offshore wind turbines in Humboldt Bay and other parts of the coastline while not displacing the fishing industry.
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State Regulators Ponder Federal Role in Large Load Interconnections
State regulators say the push to give FERC jurisdiction over large load interconnections could leave the agency biting off more than it can chew around complex state-run processes, while failing to accomplish the intended goal of speeding approvals of hyperscale data centers.
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Pennsylvania Withdraws from RGGI as Part of Budget Compromise
Pennsylvania has withdrawn from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as part of an overdue budget compromise signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro.
Entergy Texas
MISO to Include Southeastern Texas in South Long-range Tx Planning
MISO announced it will honor a request from Texas regulators and include southeastern Texas in its first long-range transmission study for MISO South.
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Top Mass. House Members Seeking Major Rollback of Climate Laws
Top Massachusetts House members are pushing an expansive energy bill that would scale back several major climate initiatives and programs.
AdminMonitor
Texas PUC Hints at Revisiting ERCOT Conservative Operations
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.
Xcel Energy
Xcel Seeks Extension for Comanche Coal Plant from Colorado Regulators
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.
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SPP State Regulators Affirm Use of Highway/Byway Cost Allocation
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.
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FERC Rejects Kentucky Complaint Against AEP’s Tx Cost Allocation
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.
Duke Energy
Duke Reports Growing Investment Plans on Increased Earnings
Duke Energy expects its new five-year capital plan for 2026 to 2030 to be between $95 billion and $105 billion, up from the $87 billion that was planned for 2025 to 2029.

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