U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
The Breakthrough Institute
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a 20-year license renewal for the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, a nuclear facility seen as key to California grid reliability as the state transitions to clean energy.
Bonneville Power Administration
Republicans in the U.S. House introduced a bill to increase the salary for the head of the Bonneville Power Administration in an attempt to make the position more competitive and attractive as the agency searches for its next leader.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright opened the CERAWeek conference with a plenary session during which he praised fossil fuels and bashed clean energy.
NIPSCO
FERC granted a MISO Midwest-wide cost allocation for Northern Indiana Public Service Co.’s and CenterPoint Energy’s coal plants kept online by order of the U.S. Department of Energy.
AEP
The Trump administration announced billions of dollars in investments from a deal it struck with Japan, which will help build natural gas plants to serve hyperscale data centers, including at a defunct uranium production site owned by DOE in Ohio.
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Challenges are piling up to Trump administration orders to keep retiring coal plants online, as the Colorado attorney general and environmental groups have filed petitions to overturn an extension of Craig Station Unit 1.
Michigan Public Power Agency
The Department of Energy argued its use of Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act to keep retiring power plants online is well within its authority in response to an ongoing emergency on the grid.
Sterling Industrial
Public interest organizations have taken their challenge of the Department of Energy’s emergency orders keeping two Indiana coal plants operating past their planned retirement dates to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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The Department of Energy extended an order that will continue to keep Washington’s last remaining coal-fired plant open past its long-scheduled retirement at the end of 2025.
APS
Arizona Public Service notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission it plans to seek operating license renewals for all three units at Palo Verde Generating Station, potentially extending operations through the mid-2060s.
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