A newly published review of utilities serving 81.1 million U.S. customers found a total of $30.5 billion in 2025 rate hike requests — a record high, and twice as much as was sought in 2024.

The Electricity Customers Alliance released a paper offering some potential ideas FERC could take up to ensure affordability in a era of major load growth.

PJM presented manual revisions to clarify how resources are defined as offline for the purpose of determining whether they are eligible for lost opportunity cost credits.

Gov. Wes Moore issued an executive order calling for reforms to boost electricity supply and ensure affordability, which will be implemented in part by the new executive director at the Maryland Energy Administration, Kelly Speakes-Backman.

Attendees at the gridCONNEXT conference, including the acting under secretary of energy and U.S. representatives, debated federal energy policy.

A new report WIRES commissioned from Grid Strategies quantifies the costs consumers face from delayed transmission projects based on analysis of eight major portfolios from four different markets around the country.

Duke Energy expects its new five-year capital plan for 2026 to 2030 to be between $95 billion and $105 billion, up from the $87 billion that was planned for 2025 to 2029.

The Regulatory Assistance Project has assembled nine former state utility regulators to try to make electricity more affordable for ratepayers.

The 2025 Mid-America Regulatory Conference tackled themes on meaningful public engagement, nuclear options, bill affordability and DEI programs falling out of favor.