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| 02.11.2024 | US regulators reject amended interconnect agreement for Amazon data center | NEW YORK : U.S. energy regulators rejected an amended interconnection agreement for an Amazon data center connected directly to a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, a filing showed on Friday.
Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commi... |
| 02.11.2024 | US regulators raise questions about siting data centers at power plants | NEW YORK :Costs and reliability concerns related to the burgeoning trend of building energy-intensive data centers next to U.S. power plants were the focus of a technical conference held on Friday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission... |
| 19.10.2024 | Colorado's Snowy Weekend and Legal Battles Over Water: A Tale of Nature and Law | Colorado is a land of contrasts. This weekend, the state is bracing for its first significant snowfall of the season. In the mountains, snowflakes will dance down, painting the landscape white. But beneath this serene surface, a storm brews... |
| 17.10.2024 | Data Integrity Awards: Celebrating Excellence in a Digital Age | In a world awash with data, integrity is the lighthouse guiding businesses through the fog. Precisely, a titan in data integrity solutions, recently shone a spotlight on this crucial aspect at its inaugural Data Integrity Awards during the ... |
| 17.10.2024 | Precisely Celebrates Customer Achievements with Precisely Data Integrity Awards | BMW Group, Chamberlain Group, FERC, Generali Real Estate, and NZ Super Fund Honored at Trust '24
BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today announced the winners of the inaugural P... |
| 17.10.2024 | Feds’ approval of Gross Reservoir dam expansion violated environmental law, judge rules | Denver Water began the permitting process for the project in 2002 and began construction on the $531 million dam project in 2022. Already, workers have partially deconstructed the existing dam to prepare it for expansion, dumped fill materi... |
| 16.10.2024 | Precisely Celebrates Customer Achievements with Precisely Data Integrity Awards | BMW Group, Chamberlain Group, FERC, Generali Real Estate, and NZ Super Fund Honored at Trust '24
BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today announced the winners of the inaugural P... |
| 18.09.2024 | New Report: How PJM Can Reform Its Interconnection Processes to Expedite Battery Storage and Avoid Looming Electricity Shortfall | ACORE logo
The paper outlines how PJM has prevented storage technologies from using a tool to expedite connection to the grid, Surplus Interconnection Service (SIS), that has been endorsed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ... |
| 10.09.2024 | 600MW solar-plus-storage project in New South Wales secures federal approval | - |
| 07.09.2024 | US regulator approves BlackRock's $12.5 bln deal for Global Infrastructure Partners | Boards, Policy & RegulationRegulatory Oversight
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| 06.06.2024 | Keystone Policy Center Honors Anterix President & CEO Rob Schwartz | Award Recognizes Leadership Through Strategic Collaboration
WOODLAND PARK, N.J., June 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- At a ceremony on June 5 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the Keystone Policy Center presented its ... |
| 04.06.2024 | FERC nominees advance | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved all three Federal Energy Regulatory Commission nominees in bipartisan votes Tuesday morning.
Why it matters: It sends them toward likely conf... |
| 13.05.2024 | Barrasso Blasts FERC Transmission Cost Allocation Rule | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), released the following statement in response to the Regional Transmission Cost Allocation and Planning Rul... |
| 02.05.2024 | United Power cuts ties with Tri-State, proposes rate hike | “We wish United Power and its consumer-members well as they go off on their own,” Highley wrote. “Tri-State continues to serve our members, who value the reliability and affordability Tri-State provides year-after-year, with an unrivaled di... |
| 29.04.2024 | CPower Brings Customer Flexibility to New York's First-in-the-Country Distributed Energy Resource Integration Program | As the first registered aggregator, CPower will bid virtual power plants into the New York DER Participation Model, allowing NYISO to unlock benefits for the grid through customer distributed energy resources
BALTIMORE, April 29, 2024 /PRNe... |
| 23.04.2024 | Transmission and Resource Planning Expert Akarsh Sheilendranath Rejoins The Brattle Group as Principal | BOSTON, April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brattle Group has welcomed Akarsh Sheilendranath to its Boston, MA office as a Principal in the firm's Electricity Wholesale Markets & Planning practice. Mr. Sheilendranath, who previously work... |
| 15.04.2024 | Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) faces arbitration hurdles as Shell tables claims against Venture Global LNG over unsuppplied cargoes | Shell Plc has filed complaints with US regulators against Venture Global LNG (VGL), the LNG exporter, for breach of contract to supply cargoes. This follows VGL’s restriction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply to the global oil giant. Me... |
| 10.04.2024 | The post-approps to-do list | Now that we're (finally) past appropriations, the Hill is set for a fight about what next to prioritize on energy.
Why it matters: Lawmakers will be doing a lot of scene-setting for the lame duck session over the next few months. But they'l... |
| 01.04.2024 | Getting up to speed on grid-enhancing tech | Getting up to speed on grid-enhancing tech
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There are emerging opportunities for solar developers to work with alternative transmission technology pr... |
| 21.03.2024 | FERC affirms decision to hold utilities accountable for interconnection delays | FERC affirms decision to hold utilities accountable for interconnection delays
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission affirmed its historic July 2023 rul... |
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| 27.07.2023 | BREAKING: FERC issues final rule on reforming interconnection process for renewable energy | BREAKING: FERC issues final rule on reforming interconnection process for renewable energy
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a final ru... |
| 14.04.2023 | Enforcement of Cybersecurity Regulations: Part 3 | Editor's Note: This is the final installment in a three-part series on cybersecurity enforcement. Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2.
In enforcing any regulatory system, whether it involves food safety, financial stability of banks, ... |
| 23.03.2023 | 1700 GW of solar, wind and storage await interconnection, up 28% in a year | “An unprecedented number” of interconnection requests last year from utility-scale renewables and storage projects “continue to prolong interconnection queue backlogs,” said a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) staff report.
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| 23.03.2023 | Get ready: More blackouts are coming | Redeem now
Normally, Scott Gann's air conditioning kept his house in Columbus, Ohio, cool during the Midwest's increasingly hot summer days. But in June, as the heat index climbed to 110 degrees Fahrenheit, Gann — along with more than 600,0... |
| 10.02.2023 | Power Struggles: Grid Attacks and Extremism in an Age of Climate Volatility | A vast maze of transmission wires and power substations crisscrosses the United States, upkept by a patchwork of utilities and regulatory agencies. This labyrinth sustains modern American life, and yet it is perilously vulnerable. Many of t... |
| 18.11.2022 | California braces for post-Pelosi future | “We are mindful that we’re going to have to be more proactive as a state in terms of our efforts in Washington, D.C.”
That was Gov. Gavin Newsom’s delicately worded assessment of how California might fare differently under Kevin McCarthy — ... |
| 28.09.2022 | Kleinschmidt Files Unprecedented Number of FERC Final License Applications Over Past 12 Months | Their talent and experience helped achieve this monumental accomplishment for our clients and stakeholders.”
— Kelly Larimer, Chief Technical Officer.PITTSFIELD, ME, UNITED STATES, September 28, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Kleinschmidt Assoc... |
| 22.08.2022 | AG Ferguson seeks to halt expansion of methane gas pipeline by company behind Keystone XL pipeline | Proposed expansion of the Gas Transmission Northwest pipeline will undermine west coast states’ plans to reduce its effects on climate change
OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed a motion to intervene and oppose an expansion ... |
| 18.08.2022 | FERC slammed for ‘illegal’ re-writing of transmission rules, ‘discriminatory transmission rates’ | The Electricity Transmission Competition Coalition (ETCC) has called for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to require transmission competition for projects that are 100kV or larger, branding a lack of competition as “inflation... |
| 10.08.2022 | New Report: Better Analysis of Transmission Benefits Enables Low-Cost Clean Energy | “When the benefits of proposed transmission lines are fully calculated, the advantages of new lines are made clear to regional planners,” said ACORE’s President and CEO Gregory Wetstone.
WASHINGTON (PRWEB) August 10, 2022
Following the Midc... |
| 05.08.2022 | Do we have enough engineers to conduct interconnection studies? | California grid operator CAISO has said that “few experts are available to hire” who can conduct interconnection studies for utility-scale projects, in a filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last year.
Grid operator MISO sim... |
| 06.07.2022 | Biden Can Lower Gasoline Prices Now | On Saturday, as Americans were preparing for Independence Day celebrations, President Biden tweeted: “My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril. Bring d... |
| 13.06.2022 | FERC Order 2222 Is Coming: Here’s How Utilities Can Prepare | Co-founder and CEO of Bidgely, evolving energy analytics for utilities with the power of data and artificial intelligence. |
| 03.06.2022 | Electrifying Everything: Let's Get Flexible | Electrification is a key theme of Energize’s investment thesis. We invest in software and business model innovations, many of which directly contribute solutions towards decarbonization by means of electrification. In this blog series, we’l... |
| 23.05.2022 | Renewable energy and storage advocate, Glick, nominated for another FERC term | The longest-tenured chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and current Chairman, Richard Glick, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve another term as one of FERC’s five chairs. Originally appointed to the posi... |
| 22.04.2022 | US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GIVES SMART WIRES TECHNOLOGY A BOOST | US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GIVES SMART WIRES TECHNOLOGY A BOOST
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U.S. leaders recognize how advanced power flow control technologies, like those implemented by Smart Wires’, can save consumers money... |
| 21.04.2022 | FERC takes major step toward transmission reform | The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a decison today to initiate a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to reform the Commission’s electric regional transmission planning and cost allocation requirements.
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| 20.04.2022 | Announcing Chairman Richard Glick - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as Virtual Keynote at 25th Annual Mid–C Seminar | Chairman Richard Glick FERC
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Chairman Glick Will Join S&P Global Commodities Insights, Western Power Trading Forum, and ZE PowerGroup, Among Other Speakers RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, Apri... |
| 16.03.2022 | Upgrading transmission lines could enable 27GW more renewable power per year | Replacing 5,000 miles of transmission wires each year with “advanced conductors” would make room for 27GW more renewable generation per year, says a report from Grid Strategies, published by the renewables trade group ACORE.
That projection... |
| 22.02.2022 | Cybersecurity Tools Lie Unused in Federal Agencies’ Toolboxes | Concerns over the possible Russian use of cyber weapons against U.S. domestic critical infrastructure in connection with the Ukraine crisis—warnings renewed on Feb. 11—should prompt reconsideration of the still-deferential posture of U.S. c... |
| 09.02.2022 | ACORE calls for quick elimination of an anti-renewable rule in New England | ACORE has flagged that a proposal by New England transmission grid operator ISO-NE to remove the “minimum offer price rule” from its capacity market in 2025 represents a two-year delay from ISO-NE’s plan last May to end the rule in 2023.
Th... |
| 04.02.2022 | $1.5B pumped hydro facility at San Vicente Reservoir takes next steps, but not everyone is on board | The construction of a proposed pumped hydro energy storage facility at the San Vicente Reservoir near Lakeside recently took a couple of steps forward but the project still needs to clear regulatory hurdles to become reality — and a backcou... |
| 26.01.2022 | Three Ways Utilities Can Keep Pace With The Unprecedented Amounts Of Clean Power Coming Online | Starting with President Biden’s call for 80 percent carbon-free electricity by 2030, new federal and state policies and economic realities are poised to drive unprecedented growth in clean power. But keeping up with this transformative econ... |
| 10.01.2022 | 2022 Energy Predictions: Coal Decline Accelerates, Federal Funds Spur Clean Energy, Millions Of New Electric Vehicles And Chargers | 2021 was a landmark year for clean energy and climate policy, from dozens of nations pledging to phase out coal, to the most ambitious federal climate proposals in United States history, to automakers going all in on electrified transportat... |
| 23.12.2021 | Why BBB must be salvaged, with clean energy provisions prioritised | Revealing details of his Build Back Better (BBB) agenda in October, US President Joe Biden described the framework as “the most significant investment to deal with the climate crisis ever”, drawing glowing responses from across the country’... |
| 08.11.2021 | Surging inflation, higher heating costs: Why your bill could double this winter | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning.
With many consumers already struggling against rising costs due to inflation, the price of keeping their homes warm this winter could be about... |
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| 14.09.2021 | Shipshape Announces Hiring of Erik Roth to Lead Utility Strategy | “Utilities are among the most important partnerships Shipshape can build for our customers and our business. With Erik at the head of our utility team, we look forward to providing incredible value for our utility partners and their custome... |
| 09.09.2021 | Wind, Solar Projects Charged for Transmission Upgrades That Benefit Shared Grid | American Council on Renewable Energy “New wind and solar projects are essentially asked to shoulder the financial burden of adding new lanes to that electron highway, lanes that benefit everyone."
WASHINGTON (PRWEB) September 09, 2021
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| 21.05.2021 | FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission : Orders GreenHat to Respond to Market Manipulation Allegations, Proposes Penalties | Docket No.: IN18-9-000
Item: E-7
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today ordered GreenHat Energy LLC and its owners to explain why they should not pay a total of $229 million in civil penalties and disgorge nearly $13.1 millio... |
| 10.05.2021 | AGILE SOURCING PARTNERS AND SYNACK TEAM UP TO PROVIDE UTILITIES WITH A SOLUTION TO EVOLVING CYBERSECURITY THREATS | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) proposes rate incentives to utilities for cybersecurity upgrades
CORONA, CA, May 10, 2021 – Recognizing the utility industry’s need to continuously safeguard critical infrastructure and generatio... |
| 16.04.2021 | FERC Issues Policy Statement on Carbon Pricing in Organized Wholesale Markets | Docket No.AD20-14-000
Item E-2
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today issued a policy statement clarifying how it will consider market rules proposed by regional grid operators that seek to incorporate a state-determined carb... |
| 12.04.2021 | Letter from Chairman Richard Glick to Senator John Barrasso, M.D. | The Honorable John Barrasso, M.D.
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Barrasso:
Thank you for your March 30, 2021 letter concerning Algonquin Gas Transmission, L.L.C.'s (Algonquin) Weymouth Compressor Station (Station),... |
| 02.04.2021 | ABA American Bar Association : SEER Administration Tracker | Environment (general updates)
Proposed American Jobs Plan Would Invest In Public Lands and Waters
President Biden's proposed American Jobs Plan is intended to bolster the economy and create jobs but would also benefit our public lands and w... |
| 30.03.2021 | End-of-life is near for renewable power plant controls | Merit Controls at the Enel Solar Energy site in Scurry, Texas.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a decade since the solar construction boom of 2010. With renewable energy flourishing nationally and abroad, industry progress has been nothi... |
| 09.03.2021 | ‘We have a real adversary’: Work intensifies to safeguard solar from cyber attacks | Alan Mantooth figures that making a $500 fix to a $10,000 piece of equipment could better safeguard the grid from a potentially devastating cyber attack that could be directed at – or even launched by – a solar power plant.
Such an attack o... |
| 23.02.2021 | Five Texas Grid Board Members Resign In Wake Of Power Catastrophe | Snow covers the ground in Waco, Texas as severe winter weather conditions over the last few days has ... [+] forced road closures and power outages over the state on February 17, 2021. - Millions of people were still without power on Februa... |
| 22.02.2021 | The Texas blackout is a man-made disaster of epic proportions | Since the discovery of oil at Spindletop in 1901, Texas has held a strong claim to the title of America’s energy capital.
Based on pre-pandemic production, Texas would rank among the top five countries in the world in terms of oil and gas p... |
| 22.02.2021 | Lessons From the Texas Grid Disaster: Planning and Investing for a Different Future | It is now a week out from the start of the massive Texas grid failure that has resulted in numerous deaths; millions of people plunged into darkness; scores of communities without clean water or heat in record cold temperatures; and billion... |
| 19.02.2021 | Renewables Debate Is Just A Sideshow Amid Epic Texas Power Failure | Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar |
| 16.02.2021 | Texas Blackouts: Will Investors Learn The Right Lessons This Time? | Gas pipegetty |
| 12.02.2021 | Energy and climate legislation led a busy week in Washington, D.C. | The Biden administration this week launched a new research working group, outlined its innovation agenda, and announced a $100 million funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support transformational low-carbon energ... |
| 07.01.2021 | Six emerging stationary energy storage trends entering 2021 | Six emerging stationary energy storage trends entering 2021
By Aaroh Kharaya January 7, 2021 View Profile
I grew up accustomed to planned blackouts infamously known as ‘load-shedding’ in India in the 90s and 2000s. Our utility provided a sc... |
| 18.12.2020 | SolarWinds-related cyberattacks pose grave risk to government and private sector, says CISA | Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto
State-sponsored hackers who exploited a security hole in a SolarWinds monitoring tool to infiltrate government and business networks have apparently left a long line of victims in their wake.
SEE: Zero trust ... |
| 16.12.2020 | New DER planning model shows why local solar-for-all costs less | The grid of the not-so-distant future will be clean, distributed and co-optimized. What that means is that generation and other resources on transmission and distribution lines will be designed and built to work together for maximum efficie... |
| 15.12.2020 | Is FERC Order 2222 enough to push virtual power plants into the energy mainstream? | Virtual power plants (VPPs) are on a roll. Within days of each other, two California companies — OhmConnect and Swell Energy — announced partnerships aimed at expanding the scale of their models for aggregating distributed energy resources ... |
| 12.12.2020 | California plans for summer 2021 with 2,000 MW of new storage | The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) is looking to energy storage as a key resource to avoid a replay of last August’s power outages as it looks ahead to what executives at the grid operator expect to be yet another long, hot ... |
| 12.11.2020 | Biden doesn't need Congress to step up the fight against climate change | President-elect Joe Biden can expect to face fierce political opposition as he seeks to implement what amounts to the country's boldest-ever plan for combating climate change. Given those obstacles, can he actually get anything done?
Actual... |
| 11.11.2020 | Energy Transition Jobs at Trina Solar, LevelTen Energy, NREL, Fluence, Sonnedix, SEPA and FERC | LevelTen Energy, a provider of transaction infrastructure for the renewable energy economy, promoted Jason Tundermann to COO and Vicky Eriksson to VP of people and culture.
Chris Womack is now president, CEO and chairman of electric utility... |
| 04.11.2020 | Commissioner Richard Glick Dissent regarding PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. | Commissioner Richard Glick Statement
November 3, 2020
Docket No.EL19-58-001
I dissent from today's order on rehearing as it is yet another abdication of the Commission's responsibility to protect consumers from unjust and unreasonable rates... |
| 01.11.2020 | Energy Regulator FERC Finds Itself Cornered Over Climate Change | The regulator of the United States’ wholesale electricity markets finds itself backed into a very tight corner, of its own making, over the issue of climate change. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has spent the last three years iss... |
| 14.10.2020 | Emerging iDER Platforms Remain Key To Our Energy Future | By: Peter Asmus |
| 23.09.2020 | FERC, NERC Second Joint Staff White Paper on Notices of Penalty Pertaining to Violations of Critical Infrastructure Protection Reliability Standards | SECOND JOINT STAFF WHITE PAPER ON
NOTICES OF PENALTY PERTAINING TO VIOLATIONS OF CRITICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION RELIABILITY STANDARDS
DOCKET NO. AD19-18-000
September 23, 2020
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
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| 14.09.2020 | 3 key takeaways from FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee’s keynote at REFF | The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has had a busy year. Chairman Neil Chatterjee gave a keynote at last week’s virtual REFF Wall Street to sum up 2020’s regulatory challenges and victories.
Chatterjee believes in competitive markets a... |
| 04.08.2020 | Revised Regulations Expand The Market For Renewable Energy | 2.8 MW solar installation in Kings Mountain, NC. Power sold to Duke Energy. Developed, constructed ... [+] and operated by SoltageSoltage |
| 23.07.2020 | What does the overhaul of PURPA mean for solar power? | On July 16th, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) finalized a long-awaited overhaul of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA), which will almost certainly bring about the most significant changes in decades f... |
| 17.07.2020 | A Unanimous FERC Decision Saves Net Metering, But Its Future Remains Uncertain | FILE - In this May 8, 2009 file photo, Len Bicknell walks from his house to his garage where his ... [+] solar energy panels are mounted on the roof in Marshfield, Mass.ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| 17.07.2020 | FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission : Commissioner Glick Concurrence regarding Enhancements that can Improve Price Formation and Real-time Dispatch in PJM | Commissioner Richard Glick
July 16, 2020
Docket No. ER20-1414-000
Order:E-24
I support today's order because I agree that these enhancements can improve price formation and real-time dispatch in PJM. I write separately to address the concer... |
| 26.06.2020 | Federal Regulator Calls For Closer Look At Carbon Pricing: Why That Matters | The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently announced plans to hold a technical conference on carbon pricing in wholesale electric power markets in late September. This decision comes after a diverse coalition of private energy... |
| 23.06.2020 | Commissioner Bernard L. McNamee Concurrence Regarding Texas Eastern Transmission | Today's order issues Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas Eastern) a certificate of public convenience and necessity for authorization to construct and operate its Cameron Extension Project (Project) to provide 750,000 dekatherms per day o... |
| 23.06.2020 | Commissioner Bernard L. McNamee Concurrence Regarding ANR Pipeline Company | Today's order issues ANR Pipeline Company (ANR) a certificate of public convenience and necessity for authorization to construct and operate its Grand Chenier XPress Project (Project) to provide 400,000 dekatherms per day of incremental fir... |
| 23.06.2020 | Commissioner Bernard L. McNamee Concurrence Regarding Portland Natural Gas Transmission System | Today's order issues Portland Natural Gas Transmission System (Portland) a certificate for public convenience and necessity for authorization to construct, modify, and operate facilities for Phases II and III of its Westbrook Xpress Project... |
| 27.05.2020 | The solar industry and consumers both lose with federal ‘MOPR’ rule | Owners of solar installations in the 13-state PJM grid region would be essentially excluded from earning revenue in the PJM capacity market under a new federal Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR), a new report shows. That’s because the minimum ... |
| 22.05.2020 | Concurrence Regarding Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (Alaska LNG Project) | Concurrence Regarding Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (Alaska LNG Project)
Today's order grants Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA)1 to site, construct, and operate... |
| 20.05.2020 | April 30, 2020 | Concurrence Regarding Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas Eastern)
Today's order issues Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas Eastern) a certificate of public convenience and necessity for authorization to excavate, elevate, and replace s... |
| 19.05.2020 | Bans on Foreign Equipment in U.S. Critical Infrastructure | One executive order does not a trend make, but maybe two do. On May 1, President Trump issued an executive order banning the acquisition, importation, transfer or installation of any bulk electric power system equipment where the secretary ... |
| 07.05.2020 | SEIA calls for strengthening PURPA | The Solar Energy Industries Association says that PURPA “should be strengthened rather than weakened,” in a filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
Solar facilities up to 80 MW in size may be classified as “qualifying f... |
| 06.05.2020 | Regulatory developments shaping energy storage in 2020 so far | Customized Energy Solutions and the U.S. Energy Storage Association have released the StorageIQ Q1 2020 Quarterly Summary, a brief report outlining RTO/ISO actions, rulemaking and state and regulatory proceedings that have impacted energy s... |
| 30.04.2020 | Clean Energy Generates Jobs. Why Does Washington Look Away? | It has begun to feel as though Marie Antoinette were setting energy policy in the United States. The people have clamored for good paying clean energy jobs and a resilient energy system to take on looming environmental and climate crises, a... |
| 13.04.2020 | Morning Brief: California Central Coast spends $600M on solar and geothermal, Sierra Club defeats PV farm | The California Central Coast is on its way to meeting its mandated renewable energy goals thanks to two recent deals worth $593 million. The contracts were approved by Monterey Bay Community Power, a new public agency charged with buying el... |
| 23.12.2019 | FERC appointees want 4¢/kWh clean energy tax to fund fossil fuel welfare | The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has ruled that the PJM Interconnection region must implement a “Minimum Offer Price Rule” (MOPR) to support existing fossil capacity in the face of state-level incentives for utility scale ren... |
| 23.04.2019 | Nevada 50% renewables official, AOC goes viral for green: pvMB 4/23/2019 | Nevada governor signs 50% RPS bill – Yesterday Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak (D) signed SB 358, which would require utilities to source 50% of their electricity from renewable energy by 2030, and set a goal for the state to generate enough ... |
| 22.04.2019 | Sunrun: 2, paperwork: 0 | There been a lot of talk in the last few years about decentralization and the grid of the future, with vague descriptions of how rooftop solar, batteries and other distributed generation are replacing large, distant smoke and steam-belching... |
| 27.03.2019 | Sun Day analysis: Despite its recent peak, nuclear power has been declining for quite some time | The following commentary was sent our way by the Sun Day campaign.
Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the partial core meltdown of reactor number 2 at the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — the worst n... |
| 14.03.2019 | CellCube announces 100 MW energy storage project in U.S. | CellCube Energy Storage Systems Inc. (“CellCube” or the “Company”) (CSE: CUBE) (OTCQB: CECBF) (Frankfurt: 01X) (WKN: A2JMGP) is very pleased to announce it has signed an agreement with a US based energy asset development company in the ener... |
| 01.02.2019 | pvMB 2/1/2019: Tesla CFO replaced, LaFleur to resign at FERC, GameChange hits 4 GW in sales, and more… | Tesla CFO replacement – As revealed early this morning in an 8-K: “Tesla intends to appoint Zachary Kirkhorn, Tesla’s current Vice President, Finance, Financial Planning and Business Operations, to replace Mr. Ahuja as Tesla’s Chief Financi... |
| 17.01.2019 | These are all the federal HTTPS websites that’ll expire soon because of the US government shutdown | We like to think of ourselves as nerds here at TechCrunch, which is why we’re bringing you this.
During the government shutdown, security experts noticed several federal websites were throwing back browser errors because the TLS certificate... |
| 25.10.2018 | FERC to be further politicized with Chatterjee as chair | One of the hallmarks of the Trump Administration has been a move towards a highly personal style of governance, and the appointment of officials on what appears to be more adherence to the political perspective of the administration more th... |
| 11.07.2018 | Publicly Reported Data Breaches: A Measure of Our Ignorance? | There is a mounting gap between what the headlines say about the costs of cyber insecurity to the U.S. economy and the results of data-driven research on this topic—with negative implications for cybersecurity. Congress should move to narro... |
