September 2025

Electrify America
GridFast Tool Gives Insight on Future EV Charging Loads
The Electric Power Research Institute has launched a tool called GridFast that will give utilities a jump start on planning for new EV charging loads.
NERC
NERC Staff Call for Resource Accreditation Guideline
In a new report, NERC staff call for a reliability guideline to help establish consistent resource accreditation practices for regional system planners.
Clean Energy Buyers Association
CEBA Study Shows How Corporate Offtake Helps Clean Energy Get Built
CEBA put out a study quantifying how its members' offtake agreements with clean energy have helped grow the sector, which will be a major factor going forward regardless of federal policy changes.
Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council
D.C. Circuit Vacates FERC Cancellation of Reactive Power Compensation in MISO
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a FERC order allowing MISO to end reactive power compensation, though the decision has no bearing on the nationwide discontinuation of payments for reactive power in Order 904.
Baytown Visitor Information Center
NRG Secures $562M Loan from Texas Energy Fund
The Texas PUC finalized a loan agreement with NRG Energy through the Texas Energy Fund’s in-ERCOT program for a 721-MW natural gas-fired plant in Houston’s dense petrochemical region.
EIA
Reports Quantify Changes in U.S. Energy Storage Sector
New reports give a picture of a U.S. energy storage sector accelerating at an even faster rate in 2025 despite policy changes but facing a potential slowdown because of those same policy changes.
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WRAP ‘Binding’ Phase Set for Winter 2027/28 After Utilities Affirm Commitment
The Western Power Pool’s WRAP secured enough participants for the program to enter the first binding phase after 11 utilities reaffirmed their commitment.
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PJM MRC/MC Briefs: Sept. 25, 2025

PJM’s Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed a set of manual revisions to expand when a new resource could be granted provisional interconnection service to allow for early operation once it becomes capable of injecting a portion of its output while its network upgrades stillare under way.

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind
BOEM Seeks to Pull Back Atlantic Shores OSW Approval
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is seeking to remand its earlier approval of the construction and operations plan for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind.
ISO-NE
PJM Members Confirm 2 Board Nominees; States Call for Governance Overhaul
The PJM Members Committee overwhelmingly voted to appoint Robert Ethier and Le Xie to fill two vacant positions on the RTO’s Board of Managers.

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