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PJM Capacity Market Reforms Shake Up Resource Accreditation, Impose New Offer and Testing Requirements

February 28, 2024 admin capacity, federal energy regulatory commission, ferc, Legal & Regulatory, Market, Markets, news, pjm, reliability pricing model, T&D

Credit to Author: Maxwell Multer| Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:44:32 +0000

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), in Docket No. ER24-99-000, recently approved a suite of tariff revisions submitted by PJM intended to “accommodate the energy transition while maintaining resource adequacy.” […]

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Renewed US National Movement to Convert Private Utilities to Public Utilities

February 3, 2024 admin ann arbor for public power, clean power, climate change, decorah power, el paso electric, federal energy regulatory commission, Fossil Fuels, green economy, grid, maine public, metro justice, policy & politics, power san diego, power to the people milwaukee, private utility commissions, public power council, public power new mexico, Solar energy, south san joaquin irrigation district, th!rd act, the american public power association, the democracy collaborative, the next system, the utility reform network, we power dc, wind energy

Credit to Author: Daryl Elliott| Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:50:28 +0000

There is a renewed US national movement afoot to replace corporate utilities with public (citizen-owned) utilities. This is not a … [continued]

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Renewable Energy & Missed Connections — It’s All About The Electrical Grid

December 27, 2022 admin clean power, federal energy regulatory commission, grid, grid connection, grid interconnection, local energy, microgrids, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 19:03:35 +0000

Renewable energy projects are facing long and often expensive delays getting connected to the grid. Is there an alternative?

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How Inflation Could Be Cut By FERC & Renewable Energy Doubled

July 9, 2022 admin clean power, clean transport, federal energy regulatory commission, federal energy regulatory commission (ferc), grid, research, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2022 16:13:53 +0000

You don’t have to be an economist to know that inflation is one of the chief financial challenges facing Americans today. Key indicators point to energy prices as a principal driver of the increased cost of living, as gasoline soars over $5 per gallon and natural gas spikes lead to inflated utility bills. Fortunately, a […]

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Former FERC Commissioner Says ‘Market Design Problem’ Was a Leading Cause of February 2021 Texas Power Crisis

February 4, 2022 admin blackouts, Coal, ercot, february blackouts, federal energy regulatory commission, ferc, Gas, iso, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, Nuclear, O&M, outages, Policy, rto, Solar, T&D, texas, the power podcast, Wind

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:13:18 +0000

In February 2021, a severe cold weather event, known as Winter Storm Uri, caused numerous power outages, derates, or failures to start at electric generating plants scattered across Texas and the south-central U.S. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the power supply for about 90% of the load in Texas, ordered a […]

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FERC Sides With Fossil Fuels In Forcing Renewables To Match Prices

December 28, 2019 admin clean power, Coal, federal energy regulatory commission, ferc, Fossil Fuels, green economy, natural gas, pjm, pjm interconnection, policy & politics, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Joshua S Hill| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:55:55 +0000

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced a directive just a few days before Christmas which will require PJM Interconnection to raise prices of wind and solar power to be in line with the cost of fossil fuels

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FERC’s LaFleur Decries Partisanship and Politicization

August 25, 2019 admin cheryl lafleur, Coal, commissioner, federal energy regulatory commission, ferc, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, Nuclear, obama administration, partisanship, Renewables, trump administration

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 03:30:29 +0000

“I hate to see things going out along party lines,” Cheryl LaFleur, outgoing commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), told POWER during an exclusive interview. “During my 35 years of watching FERC, that has not been the pattern.” During the early years of the Obama administration, “we didn’t think of ourselves as [partisan],” […]

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FERC and Cybersecurity: It’s Complicated [PODCAST]

February 28, 2019 admin bulk electric system, Coal, Cybersecurity, DOE, Energy Storage, federal energy regulatory commission, ferc, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, natural gas pipeline, nerc, news, Nuclear, podcast, power podcasts, Renewables, Solar, the power podcast, Wind

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:26:43 +0000

Carol Holahan, counsel in Foley Hoag’s Energy & Cleantech practice, was a guest on The POWER Podcast. Holahan advises large regional generators and other participants in the wholesale and retail competitive electricity markets on policy initiatives, changing environmental regulations, decommissioning and sale of plants, and matters pending before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). During […]

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Natural Gas: Clear Skies, Some Clouds on the Horizon

August 1, 2018 admin Business, Cybersecurity, Donald Trump, federal energy regulatory commission, ferc, future, Gas, gas deliverability, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, natural gas, natural gas pipeline, news, projections, supply chains

Horizontal drilling technology and fracking techniques have created a natural gas revolution in the U.S. The future looks bright for gas-fired power generation but there are three potential storm clouds that

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