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December 18, 2025

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U.S. Forest Service
Senate Wildfire Bills Address Tx Corridor Clearing, Other Measures
A bipartisan bill in the U.S. Senate would make it easier for utilities to clear trees around power lines on U.S. Forest Service land by not requiring a timber sale for the cut-down material.
Citizens Electric Corp.
FERC Sets Missouri Co-op’s Tx Rate for Hearing
FERC ordered hearing and settlement proceedings into a Missouri electric distribution cooperative’s effort to split from the Wabash Valley Power Association and earn rates on its own as a transmission owner in MISO.
Heitman
Judge Issues Restraining Order on Trump Admin over Funding Pause
D.C. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan issued a temporary restraining order on OMB from pausing all federal grants and loans.
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CPUC Approves Rules to Streamline New Transmission
California regulators have approved rules to streamline permitting of transmission projects, saying the move is needed to maintain grid reliability and reach state climate goals.
NYISO
NYISO CEO Lays out 2025 Priorities
NYISO CEO Rich Dewey opened the Management Committee meeting with a congratulations on getting through 2024 before looking ahead to the rest of 2025.  
TVA
ACORE Presses Congress to Order Improvements in TVA Planning, Oversight
ACORE says Congress could take steps to establish more comprehensive transmission and generation planning within the TVA.
Invenergy
FERC Approves Annual Megawatt Cap for MISO Interconnection Queue
FERC has given MISO an all-clear to cap project hopefuls lining up for its overflowing generator interconnection queue at 50% of the RTO’s peak load.
Bonneville Power Administration
BPA Employees Confront Trump’s ‘Fork in the Road’
Employees of the Bonneville Power Administration received the same buyout offer from the Trump administration as millions of other federal workers — despite the agency's self-funding model.
ERCOT
765-kV Lines in West Texas Inch Closer to Reality
The drive to build 765-kV lines in Texas continues to inch forward, with ERCOT and stakeholders working to provide enough information for regulators to reach a decision by May 1 on which voltage level would best meet demand.
Entergy
FERC Rejects Blanket Extension of MISO COD Deadlines for Gen Developers
FERC rejected MISO’s attempt to implement a blanket, two-year extension of commercial operation dates for generation developers that entered the interconnection queue about seven years ago.

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