NERC's Board of Trustees heard updates on the ERO's response to April's outages in Spain and Portugal, while approving updates to its regional delegation agreements and a Level 3 alert on inverter-based resources.

Former FERC Chair Willie Phillips has resigned from the commission. The future of Phillips, a President Biden appointee, has been a matter of speculation since President Trump was elected in November.

FERC Chair Mark Christie criticized PJM for continuing to consider proceeding with Transource Energy’s Independence Energy Connection transmission project years after Pennsylvania regulators denied it a certificate of public convenience and need.

FERC Chair Mark Christie and Commissioner Judy Chang downplayed the current political environment’s impact on the agency, saying the commission’s role is to follow the law and ensure the fairness of procedures.

FERC's State of the Markets report showed lower wholesale energy prices but growing demand and higher capacity prices that signal a need to meet the coming load.

CERAWeek 2025 by S&P Global examined the changing energy landscape through 14 themes, from policy and regulation to climate and sustainability, but none seemed to draw more focus than the rapid expansion of AI and is potential transformative effects.

While the majority of IRA tax credits and incentives have gone to develop clean energy projects in Republican districts and states, House leadership leans heavily toward fossil fuel-producing states,

FERC Chair Mark Christie put President Trump's executive order on independent agency actions in the context of how the commission has always interacted with the White House, but also said he will seek more clarity.

FERC Chair Mark Christie gave public remarks to NASEO's conference, laying out some of the major issues the agency will tackle under his leadership.