Coal
After DOE ignored their rehearing requests, opponents of its Federal Power Act order keeping the J.H. Campbell plant have appealed the issue to the courts.
Industry experts say that while DOE's report points to a well known issue, it focuses only on keeping old plants online instead of needed new capacity.
Georgia Power will add at least 6 GW of new generation capacity by 2031, and potentially as much as 8.5 GW, under its recently approved integrated resource plan.
New technology and energy facilities are planned for Pennsylvania at a cost of more than $90 billion, including multiple power plants and data centers, possibly co-located.
Half of the Organization of MISO States have challenged the Department of Energy’s directive to keep the J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan operating through late August.
The Michigan attorney general and a group of 10 NGOs have filed for rehearing of DOE's order to keep a coal plant running for this summer, while those parties and others debated the cost recovery filing Consumers Energy made at FERC.
EPA proposed repealing rules passed by previous administrations that impose carbon limits on existing and new power plants and the 2024 updates to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has revised its forecast upward for retail electrical sales — especially in ERCOT and PJM.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright talked about the process behind two recent orders mandating power plants that had planned to retire to keep running this summer at a House hearing that was focused on DOE's budget.
Consumers Energy filed a complaint with FERC against MISO seeking compensation for keeping open the J.H. Campbell coal plant this summer as ordered by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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