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.

The Department of Energy ordered PJM and Constellation Energy to keep the 760-MW Eddystone Generating Station online through May 24.

A bill in the Colorado legislature seeks to reduce the environmental impact of federal orders delaying the retirement of coal-fired power plants.

The Department of Energy issued a fourth emergency order, keeping the J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan online through mid-May and likely beyond.

The NYISO Operating Committee discussed the challenges it faced while successfully navigating through several events in January, including a major winter storm.

NIPSCO insisted to FERC that a MISO Midwest-wide cost allocation for the continued operation of an Indiana coal plant is the quickest solution.

While PJM experienced some of its highest peak loads ever during the late January winter storm, it overestimated load, with relatively high load forecasting errors, RTO officials told the Operating Committee.

The challenges and opportunities of meeting demand from new large loads like data centers took center stage at the National Association of State Energy Officials’ recent Energy Policy Conference.

A federal order to keep Unit 1 of the coal-fired Craig Generating Station operational past its planned retirement date seems disconnected from grid realities, a Colorado state energy official said.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the department is ready to use its authority under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act to dispatch backup generation from large customers if needed ahead of a major winter storm.