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February 18, 2026

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Growing Clean Energy Sector in Texas May Avoid Damaging Legislation

ERCOT's blossoming clean energy sector has been threatened by bills that would dampen its growth and future investment, but many of those laws appear to have fallen by the wayside in the Texas legislature's closing days.

Bonneville Power Administration
BPA Predicts Energy Deficits Over Next 10 Years

The Bonneville Power Administration predicts even steeper energy deficits among its network of dams under firm conditions compared to predictions from 2024.

Convergent Energy and Power
N.J. BPU Backs New Grid Modernization Rules
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has approved new grid modernization rules the agency says will make the process of launching new distributed sources easier and faster.
BLM California
CAISO Battery Storage Initiative Focuses on Outage Management, Nonlinearity

CAISO is moving forward with a key initiative to resolve how battery storage resources function on the grid as the battery boom continues in the Golden State. 

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FERC OKs MISO Generation Replacements Connecting at Different Points than Predecessors
FERC approved MISO’s new generation replacement provision that allows replacements to reconnect at more preferred points on the grid over clean energy groups’ concern that it plays favorites.
MISO
FERC Declines MISO Queue Cap Rehearing Requests

FERC is resolute in its support of MISO’s annual megawatt cap in its generator interconnection queue.

Yes Energy
MISO: New Orleans Area Outages Owed to Scant Gen, Congestion, Heat

MISO has shed light on the reasons behind the May 25 load-shed event in southeast Louisiana, describing a system taxed by early summer heat and rife with congestion and unavailable generation.

WECC
WECC Report Highlights Larger Loads, Longer Emergencies
Peak demand in the Western Interconnection hit a record high of 168.2 GW in 2024, reflecting “early effects” of the growth in large loads such as data centers, according to a new WECC report.
Cooperative Energy
MISO Going for 2nd Attempt to Fast Track Power Plants in Queue
MISO confirmed it will make a second bid to FERC to establish a temporary fast lane in its interconnection queue, this time limiting the process to 50 generation projects.
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PJM MRC Briefs: May 21, 2025

The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed a proposal intended to add transparency to the RTO’s effective load-carrying capability process.


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