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May 23, 2025
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House Passes Reconciliation Package that Would End Energy Tax Credits
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May 22, 2025ResourcesJames Downing
The House of Representatives narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s “One, Big Beautiful Bill” that would extend tax cuts for individuals and render energy tax credits effectively useless. 
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So far, Nuclear Energy Credits Remain in Reconciliation Bill
May 22, 2025Federal PolicyJohn Cropley
Nuclear energy got at least a temporary boost as the reconciliation bill hashed out in the House of Representatives spared it from most of the policy changes aimed at other forms of clean energy.
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U.S. Senate Approves Resolution to End California’s EV Mandate
May 22, 2025Federal PolicyJames Downing
The U.S. Senate approved a resolution under the Congressional Review Act that would end California's EV mandate.
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BPA Approves $700M Plan to Boost Columbia Generating Station Output
May 22, 2025CAISO/WEIMRobert Mullin
BPA approved a $700 million plan to increase the output of the Pacific Northwest’s only commercial nuclear plant by 162 MW by 2031.
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NERC and the REs plan to add 30.4 full-time equivalent positions in 2026, up 3.4% over 2025.
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2026 to be ‘Bridge Year’ for NERC Budget
May 22, 2025NERC & CommitteesHolden Mann
NERC CEO Jim Robb said political and economic "uncertainty" led the ERO to delay work on a new three-year plan until 2026.
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CAISO Postpones EDAM Congestion Revenue Decision
May 22, 2025CAISO/WEIMDavid Krause
CAISO delayed its final decision on how to allocate congestion revenues in its Extended Day-Ahead Market after receiving comments from stakeholders asking for more analysis.
Arizona Utilities Explore Expanded Use of Nuclear
May 22, 2025Public PolicyElaine Goodman

Arizona utilities are seeking U.S. Department of Energy funding to help plan for additional nuclear power facilities in the state.

ISO-NE Open to Asset Condition Review Role amid Rising Costs
May 21, 2025ISO-NEJon Lamson
ISO-NE announced it is open to taking on a limited “asset condition reviewer” role, intended to help increase oversight of transmission infrastructure projects. 
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FERC Chair Mark Christie speaks at the Energy Future Forum at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce headquarters on May 19.
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Power System’s Shifting Direction Highlighted at Energy Future Forum
May 21, 2025FERC & FederalJames Downing
President Donald Trump’s policies and the growth in demand from data centers and other new customers have changed the trajectory of the power system, speakers said at the Energy Future Forum.
Texas RE: ESRs to Boost ERCOT During Summer
May 21, 2025Regional EntitiesTom Kleckner
Rapid growth in battery energy storage systems in ERCOT has resulted in a “significantly lower” probability for an energy emergency alert this summer, according to the Texas Reliability Entity.
NERC Standards Committee Rejects IBR Definitions Request
May 21, 2025NERC & CommitteesHolden Mann
NERC's Standards Committee moved forward with multiple standards development projects, while rejecting one standard request as proposed by a development team.
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From left: Rhode Island PUC Chair Ronald Gerwatowski; Jamie Dickerson, Acadia Center; NEPGA President Dan Dolan; Doug Horton, Eversource Energy; and Maggie Molina, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
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Regulators Focus on Energy Affordability at NECPUC Symposium
May 22, 2025Building DecarbonizationJon Lamson

Government officials and industry executives discussed how to mitigate rising energy costs in New England at the NECPUC Symposium.

N.Y. Finalizes REC Contracts for 2.57 GW of Renewables
May 21, 2025State and Local PolicyJohn Cropley
New York has executed renewable energy certificate contracts for 26 solar, wind and hydro projects to help meet its clean energy goals.
BOEM Lifts Stop-work Order on Empire Wind
May 20, 2025Federal PolicyJames Downing
BOEM lifted a stop-work order on the Empire Wind 1 project in a deal that will have New York work on expanding pipelines into the Northeast, a goal the White House has publicly sought since shortly after President Trump took office.
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MISO Gen Developers Sour on RTO’s JTIQ Cost Allocation
May 21, 2025MISOAmanda Durish Cook
MISO generation developers pushed back on MISO’s cost allocation of the $1.65 billion Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue, reportedly saying MISO’s late-stage alterations have eroded the value of the seams planning.
Calpine Proposes Time-varying TCCs at NYISO
May 21, 2025NYISOVincent Gabrielle
Calpine proposed that NYISO split its 24-hour-only transmission congestion contracts into on-peak and off-peak products, arguing it would reduce the cost of congestion hedging by better aligning it with load and generation behavior.
CPUC Proposal Seeks to Blend RA, Clean Energy Procurement
May 20, 2025CAISO/WEIMElaine Goodman

The California Public Utilities Commission has proposed a new framework that would take a “more programmatic approach” to load-serving entities’ resource procurement requirements compared with the agency’s recent practice of issuing procurement orders as needed.

U.S. Hydropower Projected to Bounce Back from 2024 Slump
May 20, 2025ResourcesJohn Cropley
Federal analysts expect U.S. hydropower generation to increase 7.5% over 2024 totals, which were the lowest in at least 14 years.
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Turlock Irrigation District to Join EDAM in 2027
May 20, 2025CAISO/WEIMHenrik Nilsson
California-based Turlock Irrigation District has agreed to join CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in 2027.
A rendering shows the potential configuration of a GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300 small modular reactor facility.
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TVA First U.S. Utility to Request SMR Construction Permit
May 20, 2025ResourcesJohn Cropley
The Tennessee Valley Authority crossed a milestone May 20, becoming the first U.S. utility to request a construction permit for a small modular nuclear reactor. 
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Panel Discusses Data Center Load Growth at PJM Annual Meeting
May 19, 2025Regional EntitiesDevin Leith-Yessian
Experts in the data center field discussed the challenges of meeting accelerating computational load during the PJM Annual Meeting, held in the core of Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley. 
ACORE Panelists Call for ‘New Era’ in Energy Policy
May 15, 2025Resource AdequacyHolden Mann
Former FERC Chair Neil Chatterjee and other panelists in an ACORE-hosted webinar warned that grid stakeholders need to put aside old ways of thinking to address growing reliability challenges.
FERC Summer Assessment Shows Risks from Growing Demand, Extreme Weather
May 15, 2025Resource AdequacyJames Downing
FERC's summer assessment shows rising demand and prompted Chair Mark Christie to discuss recent developments in PJM.
Texas RE’s Albright Hopes to Learn from Iberian Outage
May 15, 2025Regional EntitiesTom Kleckner
Texas Reliability Entity CEO Jim Albright sees similarities between the issues facing the U.S. and European grid and hopes to learn from the recent Iberian Peninsula outage.
NERC's Summer Reliability Assessment showed elevated risk for much of the middle of North America, along with parts of the Eastern and Western Interconnections.
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NERC Warns Summer Shortfalls Possible in Multiple Regions
May 14, 2025Resource AdequacyHolden Mann
NERC's Summer Reliability Assessment found that energy shortfalls are possible this summer in the middle of North America, New England and Baja California.
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CAISO Foresees Sufficient Resources for Normal Summer Conditions
May 14, 2025Regional EntitiesDavid Krause
California expects to meet its peak demand this summer under most weather conditions due to thousands of megawatts of new energy resources — almost all battery storage.
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Counterflow: The SMR Fission Vision in Ontario
May 19, 2025ResourcesSteve Huntoon
Experience with small modular reactors (like other nuclear) is for massive cost overruns, writes columnist Steve Huntoon.
$5B Authorized for N.Y. Energy Efficiency, Building Electrification
May 19, 2025Building DecarbonizationJohn Cropley
New York’s major utilities and its energy development entity have been cleared to administer $5 billion for energy efficiency and building electrification through 2030.
N.J.’s Power Future Clouded by Data Center Uncertainty
May 19, 2025NetZero InsiderHugh Morley
The amount of stress to the grid posed by data centers is so uncertain it could hamper New Jersey’s effort to plan new generation and transmission, speakers at a clean energy conference said.
Mass. Gov. Healey Introduces Energy Affordability Bill
May 19, 2025State and Local PolicyJon Lamson
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has filed a major energy bill that her administration says would save ratepayers $10 billion over the next decade.
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California PUC Denies PG&E’s Biomass-to-gas Pilot Project
May 18, 2025State and Local PolicyDavid Krause
The California Public Utilities Commission rejected a project proposed by Pacific Gas and Electric to convert wood biomass to natural gas.
Standard Solar’s 11.5-MW solar array in northern New York benefited from funding through the state’s NY-Sun initiative.
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N.Y. Moves to Boost Lagging Clean Energy Development
May 18, 2025State and Local PolicyJohn Cropley
New York is tweaking its approach to clean energy development as it works to get its lagging decarbonization efforts back on track. 
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