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 agreement announced March 18 is valued at $5 billion before closing adjustments, or approximately $1,142/kW of capacity.
NERC
A new standards development project will be a testbed for some of the proposals by NERC's Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force.
Western Area Power Administration
The Western Transmission Expansion Coalition’s 10-year outlook has spurred talks about increased coordination between jurisdictions to upgrade or build 12,600 miles of transmission in the West and fueled calls for states to create a task force to streamline permitting and other issues.
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MISO
MISO said its most recent financial estimates show operating costs continuing to creep up through 2030, making $500 million annual operating budgets the norm and forcing it to collect more from members.
Updating stakeholders on its proposal for an internal asset condition reviewer, ISO-NE said it now plans to review asset condition projects estimated by transmission owners to exceed $25 million in regionalized costs.
The Washington Senate passed a bill to establish a transmission authority intended to help the state improve system capacity and meet growing demand by reducing the timeline to complete new transmission projects.
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NERC
NERC's Reliability and Security Technical Committee approved multiple technical documents while preparing for a higher-profile role in the standards development process.
A speaker at a recent Texas RE webinar discussed the potential risks posed by the growth of artificial intelligence.
Speakers at a SERC Reliability-hosted webinar discussed the need for communication to address rapidly evolving threats to the security of electric facilities.
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Meta
New Jersey legislators backed a bill that would require operators of AI data centers and crypto mining facilities to run them with clean energy and submit an energy use plan to the state.
The Trump administration announced energy, technology and resource deals worth $56 billion coming out of an Asia-Pacific energy security summit.
CAISO is proposing new methods to address “poor quality data” from some variable energy resources in the region in order to improve grid forecasting, the ISO said in a straw proposal.
