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February 13, 2026

Commentary

Stakeholder Soapbox: Your Audit Report may be Worthless
A good audit report isn't enough to protect utilities from federal penalties after a reliability event, argues former NERC official Terry Brinker.
NRC
Counterflow: Where to Begin? Or End?
Columnist Steve Huntoon criticizes FirstEnergy's efforts to subsidize its Davis-Besse nuclear plant in the name of grid resilience.
The Brattle Group
Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy: Capturing the Stacked Benefits of Battery Storage
Ryan Hledik of The Brattle Group defends his firm's study of the value of energy storage in California.
Brattle Group
Counterflow: Grid Batteries Kool-Aid, Once More with Feeling
Columnist Steve Huntoon takes a break from trashing the DOE NOPR to return to another of his favorite punching bags: grid batteries.
Earthjustice
Counterflow: Clunker Poster Child
Are you up for a pop quiz today? See how you do answering Steve Huntoon's trivia questions on FirstEnergy's coal-fired W.H. Sammis plant.
Duke University
Counterflow — Clunkers Shoot Selves in Foot
Supporters of the DOE NOPR have promoted an insane rush to judgment, according to columnist Steve Huntoon.
NYISO
Paving the Way for New Electric Resources: A New York Success Story
Joel Yu of Con Edison details the company's proposed reforms to NYISO's generator interconnection queue that he says will streamline new energy resources.
Counterflow: Anatomy of the New Cash for Clunkers
To Steve Huntoon, it's obvious where the recent Department of Energy proposed rule to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission came from: Murray Energy.
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Counterflow: Cash for Clunkers Redux
In his latest column, Steve Huntoon lambasts the Energy Department's proposed rule directing FERC to prop up uneconomic baseload power plants.
PJM
Stakeholder Soapbox: REVing up our Wholesale Power Markets
Glen Thomas, president of PJM Power Providers Group, argues that a re-examination of RTOs' wholesale energy markets is long overdue.

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