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The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts sharp increases in renewable power generation and sharp decreases in coal-fired power in its 2025 Annual Energy Outlook.
The rehearing order was approved on the same lines as the original rejection, with Commissioners Mark Christie and Lindsay See in support and Willie Phillips dissenting.
Operators of the Columbia Generating Station are seeking an extended power uprate for the facility, which is the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant and a supplier of electricity to the Bonneville Power Administration.
The planned restart of Palisades Nuclear Plant survived a challenge from anti-nuclear organizations, with a panel of judges of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission deeming their arguments inadmissible.
The Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors announced it will elevate COO Don Moul to become the fourth CEO of TVA.
NYISO stakeholders heard about the tension between public policy pushes for zero-emission generation, the aging grid, increasing customer costs and concerns about winter peaking.
The current debate in the U.S. electricity sector pitting efforts to increase renewables against the need for grid reliability in the face of growing demand could be unnecessary and counterproductive, according to one expert.
CERAWeek 2025 by S&P Global examined the changing energy landscape through 14 themes, from policy and regulation to climate and sustainability, but none seemed to draw more focus than the rapid expansion of AI and is potential transformative effects.
Even if demand forecasts from new data centers are twice as large as what ends up being built, the growth is going to be at a scale where the power industry’s regulations need to change to keep up with it, former FERC Commissioner Allison Clements said.
Facing a 40% hike in electricity demand by 2030, New Jersey needs to rapidly craft a plan on how to boost generation and develop its transmission and distribution system, speakers at a conference on the state’s energy future said.
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