Duke Energy reported earnings of $1.25/share for the second quarter, and its CEO told analysts the company also came out ahead with state and federal legislation.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proudly told NARUC attendees the agency’s proposed rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding would be the “largest deregulatory action in the history of the country.”

EPA is proposing to rescind its 2009 endangerment finding, which qualifies greenhouse gases as pollutants and has been used by Democratic presidential administrations to regulate emissions from power plants and other sources.

After DOE ignored their rehearing requests, opponents of its Federal Power Act order keeping the J.H. Campbell plant have appealed the issue to the courts.

As it updates its energy to reflect new challenges to decarbonization, New York is contemplating what until recently seemed improbable: new fossil-fired generation.

Industry experts say that while DOE's report points to a well known issue, it focuses only on keeping old plants online instead of needed new capacity.

Georgia Power will add at least 6 GW of new generation capacity by 2031, and potentially as much as 8.5 GW, under its recently approved integrated resource plan.

The Virginia SCC ordered changes to Dominion's IRP filings, requiring scenarios that meet state clean energy goals and have an increased level of storage, efficiency and demand-side management.