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December 5, 2025

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NARUC Report Seeks to Make Headway on Gas-electric Challenges
A new report from the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners offers state regulators an extensive set of recommendations intended to address risks stemming from the ever evolving interdependence of the natural gas and electric sectors in the U.S.
Brattle Group
Brattle Study Finds Similar PRMs Under Alternative Western RA Footprint
A new Brattle Group study examined the impact on planning reserve margins of an alternative Western resource adequacy program that includes expected participants in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Tribes Urge FERC to Reject Wright’s Hydropower NOPR
Tribes asked FERC to reject a proposal from Energy Secretary Chris Wright to reverse a 2024 rule change that required consultation with them over hydropower projects proposed on their lands.
IEA
IEA World Energy Outlook 2025 Quantifies Rising Global Power Demand
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.
ISO-NE
NEPOOL Committees Support ISO-NE Prompt Capacity Auctions
NEPOOL technical committees voted in favor of ISO-NE’s proposal to adopt a prompt capacity auction and update the RTO’s resource retirement process.
MISO
MISO Interconnection Queue Dips Below 175 GW
MISO’s generator interconnection queue now totals 174 GW across 944 projects, a result of several developers dropping out of the line in recent months.
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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UPDATED: Regulators Urge FERC to Honor State Authority over Large Load Interconnections
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.
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MISO States Call NERC’s Planned RA Standard Inappropriate
The Organization of MISO States is warning NERC that its possible new resource adequacy standard would tread on states’ planning authority.

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