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January 9, 2026

Utility-scale Solar

IESO
IESO Preps for ‘Virtual’ Corporate PPAs
IESO will begin allowing corporate energy buyers to purchase power from off-site renewable generators next spring, giving loads another way to reduce their Global Adjustment charges.
GridLab
GridLab: More Renewables Could Have Saved Billions in PJM Auction

If just 10% of the land-based renewables in PJM’s generator interconnection queue had been developed, the total cost of the RTO’s 2026/27 capacity auction would have been reduced by $3.5 billion, according to an analysis GridLab commissioned by Aurora Energy Research.

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Now a Mature Industry, Batteries Face a More Certain Future
Reports of the energy storage industry’s demise are greatly exaggerated, experts said during the American Clean Power Association’s annual Energy Storage Summit.
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PJM MRC/MC Briefs: Oct. 23, 2025

PJM’s Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed by acclamation a proposal to use only cost-based offers for resources committed in advance of the day-ahead energy market.

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Patton Calls on ERCOT to Operate its System Less Conservatively
ERCOT can ensure long-term reliability with its energy-only market, but it must operate its grid less conservatively for that to happen, said Potomac Economics President David Patton.
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Van Welie Discusses the Challenges Markets Face in New England
ISO NE CEO Gordon van Welie talked about the evolving grid in New England and how markets are changing and what the future holds as state policies drive higher demand and increasing decarbonization.
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N.Y. Renewables Conference Focuses on Near-term Goals, Post-Trump Hopes
State policymakers and industry leaders at the Alliance for Clean Energy New York’s Fall Conference offered messages of full support even as they acknowledged the federal roadblocks thrown in their path.
RMI
Sharper Load Growth in Utility Integrated Resource Plans
As of September 2025, the IRPs are projecting demand will be 24% higher in 2035 than in 2023, RMI reported.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Brattle Group
LBNL Study Examines Drivers Behind Higher Power Prices in Some States
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released a paper recently examining why some states have seen retail power prices rise faster than inflation.
BLM
Interior Throws Curveball at Esmeralda Solar Projects, but Denies Cancellation
The fate of a 6.2-GW cluster of solar energy projects in western Nevada is uncertain following the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to break the group into individual projects for review.

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