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Consumer Group Says NIPSCO Affordability Crisis Direct Result of Indiana Laws
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A consumer advocate says the affordability crisis dogging Northern Indiana Public Service Co.’s ratepayers is the product of an indulgent state legislature.
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Winter Storm Drives Potential Record for January N.Y. Electricity Costs
The average cost for electricity in NYISO was $201.89/MWh in January, up nearly 53% from January 2025 and possibly the highest ever for the month, the ISO reported.
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A solar array at the Workforce Training Center at Raritan Community College in North Branch, N.J.
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N.J. Looks to Utilities for Solar Expansion Answers
New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities is asking the state’s four utilities for thoughts on how to help waive regulations and speed up the connection of distributed energy resources as it seeks to modernize its grid.
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Components for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project are staged for transport. The offshore wind project in January won an injunction lifting the stop-work order the Trump administration placed on it in December.
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Trump Administration to Continue Effort to Halt OSW Work
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said an appeal “absolutely” is coming on the stop-work orders that his agency imposed and judges lifted against five offshore wind projects.
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Footprint of expected participation in CAISO's Extended Day-Ahead Market
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Caution Urged as Regulators Consider NV Energy’s Request to Join EDAM
Some parties are urging Nevada regulators to wait until initial results are in for CAISO's Extended Day-Ahead Market before deciding whether to allow NV Energy to join.
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NIPSCO Insists on MISO Midwest Allocation for Indiana Coal Plant Costs
NIPSCO insisted to FERC that a MISO Midwest-wide cost allocation for the continued operation of an Indiana coal plant is the quickest solution.
Imports ‘Key Vulnerability’ to California Energy Security, CEC Report Says
California’s reliance on a large amount of imported electricity and fossil fuels is a potential weakness in the state’s energy security portfolio, a California Energy Commission staff report finds.
Nickell: RSC ‘Best-in-class’ Among Grid Operators
SPP's Regional State Committee, composed of regulators from its 14-state footprint, was created to provide regulatory input to the RTO and will expand into the Western Interconnection later in 2026.
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A rendering of Invenergy's proposed 1.2-GW simple-cycle gas plant in Kenosha County, Wis. The project is in MISO's interconnection fast track.
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NERC to OMS: Long-term Assessment not a Predictor of Risk
NERC officials appeared before an Organization of MISO States board meeting in an attempt to quell regulators’ discontent with MISO’s “high-risk” label in the 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment.
Stakeholders Urge Further Refinement of NERC Standard Modernization Proposals
Stakeholders mostly said the recommendations to update NERC's standards development process represented a good start but needed further development to ensure a fair process.
MISO States Dispute ‘High Risk’ Designation from NERC
Members of the Organization of MISO States sent a letter to contradict aspects of NERC’s Long-Term Reliability Assessment, disputing the ERO’s label of MISO as being at “high risk.”
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National Grid
Conflict Brewing over Gas Transition in Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, a state with some of the most ambitious decarbonization policies in the country, fundamental disagreements between utilities and consumer advocates threaten to derail the transition from natural gas before it even gets off the ground.
Offshore Wind Group Questions CPUC’s Proposed Forecast for Humboldt Project
Offshore wind experts urged the California Public Utilities Commission to reconsider a forecasted 6-year delay to the Golden State’s offshore wind project in Humboldt County.
Revolution Wind Weeks Away from Generating Power — Maybe
If Ørsted can continue to beat back the Trump administration’s interference, it could start generating electricity with its Revolution Wind project in a matter of weeks.
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OGE's Adam Snapp explains transmission costs during SPP's February board meeting.
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SPP Demand Forecast, DR Policies Leave No One Happy
SPP's Board of Directors approved a framework for demand response and peak demand assessments despite opposition from members and stakeholders.
BPA Rolls out Generation Interconnection Cluster Study
More than 60 GW of generation is a step closer to connecting to BPA's transmission system, following the release of Phase 1 of an interconnection cluster study.
MISO’s Zero-injection Proposal: A Good Start, but It’s Not Enough
Limiting MISO large load solutions only to zero-injection scenarios misses the mark and can create a myriad of challenges now and in the future, writes David Sapper of the Clean Grid Alliance.
PJM MIC Briefs: Feb. 4, 2026
PJM’s Market Implementation Committee passed by acclamation a PJM issue charge seeking to more thoroughly define how storage resources participate in the energy and ancillary service markets.
PPL presented a $220 million project to serve a customer seeking to bring 1 GW of load to Archbald, Pa.
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PJM PC/TEAC Briefs: Feb. 3, 2026
PJM’s Julia Spatafore presented a quick-fix proposal to model battery storage dispatch in Regional Transmission Expansion Plan base cases.
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PJM Stakeholders Considering Load Management Performance Penalties
PJM, Voltus and the RTO’s Independent Market Monitor presented proposals to establish penalties for demand response and price-responsive demand resources that fail to perform during a pre-emergency load management event.
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Deputy Secretary James Danly at a press conference Feb. 6 held at the Department of Energy's headquarters.
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DOE Touts Fossil Fuels’ Role in Meeting Peak Energy Demand This Winter
DOE's senior leadership highlighted how the grid relies on fossil fuels to make it through winter peaks.
FBI Releases Critical Infrastructure Cyber Recommendations
Through Operation Winter SHIELD, the FBI will share a different cybersecurity recommendation each week.
CISA Guidance Emphasizes Insider Threat Readiness
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released guidance to help critical infrastructure operators build insider threat management teams.
AEP, Springdale to Pay $180K in NERC Penalties
FERC approved two utilities' settlements with ReliabilityFirst for violations of NERC reliability standards covering protective relay settings.
ERCOT's Dan Woodfin briefs the Texas PUC on the grid operator's response to the January winter storm.
AdminMonitor
ERCOT Leaned on Mobile Gens, RMR Unit During Storm
ERCOT says it leaned on Texas’ 15 mobile generating units and an RMR unit during the state’s first major cold-weather event since 2021’s disastrous Winter Storm Uri.
In its 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment, NERC predicted that 13 out of 23 assessment areas will face resource adequacy challenges over the next 10 years.
NERC
NERC Warns of ‘Worsening’ Resource Adequacy Through 2035
NERC's latest Long-Term Reliability Assessment projected more than half of all assessment areas will face high or elevated risk of energy shortfalls in the next 10 years.
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N.Y. PSC Changes DER Interconnection Rules to Meet Tax Credit Deadlines
The New York Public Service Commission issued new interconnection rules for distributed energy resource developers and utilities aimed at capturing as many expiring Inflation Reduction Act tax credits as possible for wind, solar and storage projects.
Data Center Moratorium Bill Introduced in N.Y. Legislature
Democrats in the New York Legislature have introduced legislation to create a three-year moratorium on the siting and permitting of new data centers statewide.
Cleanview: Data Centers’ Speed-to-market Goals Lead to Inefficient Gas Generation
Cleanview released a report putting numbers to a trend where many hyperscale data center developers are building dirtier, more quickly available generation to cash in on the AI boom.
Equinor Hopeful it Can Complete Empire Wind on Schedule
Work on the $7.5 billion, 810-MW project off the New York coast has been halted twice by the administration and resumed twice by the Norwegian developer.
Work continues on Fervo Energy's 100-MW Cape Station Phase 1 project in Utah.
Fervo Energy
Tiny U.S. Geothermal Sector Poised for Growth
The 99 U.S. plants online in 2024 had a combined nameplate capacity of 3.97 GW, up 8% from 2020, a new report indicates.
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Leadership in a Time of Systemic Climate Risk
Climate risk no longer is simply an environmental problem. It’s a governance, planning, and management problem. And it sits squarely on the desks of utility executives, system operators, and policymakers.