Ex-ERCOT director Peter Cramton still has high hopes for the Texas grid operator, which he says is still "the best market in the world."

At EBA’s annual Northeast Chapter meeting state officials discussed present and future transmission planning needs to reach a carbon-free electric grid.

The Energy Bar Association marked its 75th anniversary at its virtual annual meeting last week, which included sessions on capacity markets and resilience and remarks by FERC Chair Richard Glick. Here’s some of what we heard. Glick and Federal Policy Glick opened the meeting by answering several attendees’ questions related...

Colorado regulator Megan Gilman worries that the electrification of home heating could leave fewer natural gas customers paying increasingly high bills. But Consolidated Edison executive Marc Huestis told the Energy Bar Association’s annual meeting Wednesday that could be avoided by continued use of natural gas infrastructure for delivering low-carbon fuel.

Decarbonization experts called for an all-hands-on-deck approach to a net-zero electricity sector, telling the Energy Bar Association last week that the industry has little choice but to decarbonize — and fast. Thompson and Knight partner George Humphrey said during a May 11 panel discussion before the EBA that 2020 represented...

When FERC Chair Richard Glick announced the creation of a new senior position to incorporate environmental justice and equity concerns into the commission’s decision-making process, he wanted to ensure these areas "finally get the attention they deserve." Four former commissioners discussed this and other FERC issues under President Biden during a panel...

More uniformity in transmission planning standards and broader considerations of benefits are needed to ensure the grid can handle increasing renewables and help states meet climate goals, speakers told the Energy Bar Association’s annual meeting Wednesday. Officials from SPP, American Electric Power, Southern California Edison and the New Jersey Board...

FERC Chair Richard Glick announced his top aides Monday, promoting technical adviser Pamela Quinlan to acting chief of staff and naming legal adviser Matt Christiansen as general counsel. Quinlan joined Glick’s office in 2017 after a stint in the Office of Energy Market Regulation. Before joining commission staff, she worked...

The upcoming RTO stakeholder processes on Order 2222 are "where the rubber meets the road" for distributed energy resources’ participation in the markets, FERC Commissioner Neil Chatterjee told an Energy Bar Association webinar Wednesday. Chatterjee was the FERC chair in September when the commission issued Order 2222, which directed RTOs to...

When historians write about the power industry’s efforts to reach net-zero carbon emissions decades from now, chances are good that hydrogen will be a big part of the story, speakers told the Energy Bar Association’s annual Fall Conference last week. Hydrogen is currently used in fertilizer, petroleum refining and other...