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.

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’s generator interconnection queue now totals 174 GW across 944 projects, a result of several developers dropping out of the line in recent months.

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.

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.

NYISO presented the results of Phase 1 of the 2024 Cluster Study process at a special Operating Committee meeting.

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.

FERC can make large load flexibility a reality through the implementation of the Department of Energy’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on large load interconnections, according to a new Nicholas Institute policy paper.

After multiple denials, the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline obtained environmental permits from New York and New Jersey in an apparent victory for the Trump administration.

Both parties have members working on permitting legislation, but the shutdown and the Trump administration's actions against clean energy projects make actual legislation a tough lift for now.