Two Arizona utilities received approval to convert coal-fired power plants to run on natural gas, projects they say will enhance grid reliability, reduce emissions and preserve jobs.

Politicians increasingly are interested in wholesale markets, which has meant price caps but also is pushing regulators and the industry to move faster on meeting rising demand affordably and reliably.

Energy officials in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming called on the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative to ensure states with members in the Regional Organization for Western Energy have full access to data and market information, saying failure to do so risks infringing states’ rights and undermining public confidence.

FERC approved settlements with AES Indiana and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District for violations of reliability standards.

FERC dismissed a complaint about a $385 million asset condition project on an Eversource Energy transmission line in New Hampshire, finding it failed to demonstrate any violations by the company.

President Donald Trump gathered seven tech leaders at the White House to sign a ratepayer protection pledge holding that they will pay all the costs associated with the boom in construction of data centers.

Washington’s attorney general and a coalition of public interest organizations filed separate lawsuits to overturn the Department of Energy’s order requiring TransAlta to continue operating the state’s last coal-fired plant beyond its scheduled retirement.

For the first time in years, California’s grip on Western market design is genuinely at risk, writes Nick Myers of the Arizona Corporation Commission.

It’s an “all-hands-on-deck” moment for CAISO to open its extended day-ahead market in less than two months, CAISO’s CEO Elliot Mainzer said at a Western Energy Market Board of Governors meeting.

MISO opened a third review of a long-range transmission project, this time because three substations are needed more than five years ahead of schedule to accommodate new data center load.