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December 19, 2025

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Consumers Energy
Wright: DOE Working to Stop More Coal Plants from Retiring
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said his department is working with utilities around the country to keep more coal plants slated for retirement open to help meet rising demand from data centers and other new large loads.
NREL
DOE Launches Speed to Power, Eyes Multi-GW Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy is kicking off its Speed to Power initiative by seeking input on large-scale grid projects that would serve large-scale data centers.
Exelon
PJM TEAC Briefs: Sept. 9, 2025
PJM and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities are in discussions on how the transmission and interconnection facilities planned for the state’s offshore wind aspirations can be put on ice in the wake of all the generation developers pulling out of their projects.
Michelle Bloodworth
Stakeholder Forum: What Does a Reliable Grid Cost?
More and more, energy policy analysis seems to be based on finding a preferred answer rather than a realistic answer, says America's Power CEO Michelle Bloodworth.
EIA
EIA Increases Projections of Power Generation Growth
The U.S. Energy Information Administration is boosting its estimate of national power generation growth to 2.3% this year and 3.0% next year.
Newkirk Electric Associates
DOE Orders Mich. Coal Plant to Remain Available Another 90 Days
The U.S. Department of Energy has ordered the J.H. Campbell Generating Plant to remain available another 90 days, saying its capacity is needed to maintain MISO grid reliability.
MISO
FERC Rules Costs of Mich. Coal Plant Extension Can be Split Among 11 States
FERC said MISO should spread the costs of keeping a Michigan coal plant running past its retirement date over the RTO’s entire Midwest region.
Grid Strategies
New Report: Consumers Could Pay $3B More Annually if DOE Stay-open Orders Persist
A Grid Strategies report concludes that if the Department of Energy continues to supersede retirement decisions for fossil-fueled power plants, it could cost consumers an extra $3 billion annually in a little more than three years.
Constellation
Clean Energy Groups Seek Rehearing on DOE Resource Adequacy Report
Three clean energy trade groups asked DOE to reconsider its recent report on resource adequacy, which they contend uses a deterministic approach to stake out a position for not retiring any more power plants in the face of rising electricity demand.
BLM
Interior Reverses Approval of Lava Ridge Wind Project
The Department of the Interior is moving to cancel the Lava Ridge Wind Project, a gigawatt-scale wind farm proposed on thousands of acres of federal land in Idaho.

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