Minnesota
The Boldt Co.
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved the $6.2 billion sale of Allete to BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
DOE
The U.S. Department of Energy has terminated 321 grants totaling $7.56 billion for 223 projects, apparently targeting Democratic-leaning states.
MISO
MISO and several stakeholders came to the defense of the RTO’s $21.8 billion, 24-project long-range transmission plan portfolio for the Midwest as five Republican states seek to repeal the projects’ approval.
SMS Group
Stakeholders asked FERC to force MISO to cut or dilute some of the harsher requirements of its proposed demand response participation and accreditation package.
Xcel Energy
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.
Wtshymanski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
FERC granted rate incentives for the priciest project to come out of MISO’s 2024 Transmission Expansion Plan, setting off friction between commissioners.
Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
Minnesota regulators voted unanimously to require that Amazon demonstrate a need for a 250-unit fleet of backup diesel generators at its proposed data center in the state.
Premier of Ontario
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the province will enact retaliatory 25% tariffs on its electricity transports to the U.S. or even halt exports if President Donald Trump doesn’t stand down in a burgeoning trade war.
Xcel Energy
Xcel Energy has reached a settlement with clean energy nonprofits that further swings the utility’s integrated resource planning toward zero-carbon resources.
EFI Foundation
Minnesota received kudos for promoting a clean energy workforce during an EFI Foundation webinar.
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