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December 19, 2025

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House Passes SPEED Act to Quicken Infrastructure Permitting
The House passed the SPEED Act, which aims to cut the timelines and litigation around NEPA reviews, but Democrats urged their Senate colleagues to improve the bill in a chamber where their votes are needed for passage.
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N.Y. PSC Directs Con Edison to Create Plan to Avert Energy Shortfall
Consolidated Edison has been tasked with creating a contingency plan to avert the energy shortfall that it and NYISO have warned may develop in New York City.
Michigan Public Power Agency
MISO: Retirement-delayed Campbell Coal Plant not a Capacity Resource
MISO officials clarified the J.H. Campbell coal plant — kept online and in retirement limbo by the Department of Energy’s series of emergency orders — is not eligible for the RTO’s capacity market and is not receiving special treatment for dispatch.
Highview Power
IESO Drops Termination Option for Long Lead-time RFP

Responding to opposition from suppliers, IESO said it will not include a termination option in its procurement for long lead-time resources.

Talen Energy
FERC Directs PJM to Issue Rules for Co-locating Generation and Load
FERC told PJM to change its rules to allow for co-located load at generators, with new transmission services and other tweaks.
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N.Y. Embraces All of the Above in Energy Strategy Update

The newest iteration of New York’s energy roadmap maintains a zero-emission grid as a target but acknowledges an uncertain path to that goal, and likely a longer reliance on fossil fuels.

Hydro-Québec
ISO-NE Discusses Final Sensitivities for Economic Study
ISO-NE presented the final stakeholder-requested sensitivities for its 2024 Economic Study, discussing the potential effects of adding 3.9 GW of hydropower to the Hydro-Québec system.
TransAlta
DOE Orders Retiring Wash. Coal Plant to Stay Online for Winter
Citing an energy “emergency” in the Northwest this winter, DOE ordered TransAlta to continue operating Washington’s last coal-fired generating plant for three months beyond its scheduled retirement at the end of this year.
CAISO
WEM Board OKs Gas Management Changes to Provide ‘Equitable Access’ to Markets
The Western Energy Markets Governing Body approved a set of revisions to CAISO's gas-fired energy generation resource management program after two years of work with stakeholders.
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Permitting Bill Runs into Difficulty Involving Offshore Wind
House Republicans amended the SPEED Act on its way to a floor vote, in order to allow the Trump administration to keep repealing Biden-era permits for offshore wind, which led renewable energy groups to drop support for the bill.

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