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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.
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Prolonged Cold Drove Record Monthly Energy Costs in New England
New England experienced record high energy costs in the month of January amid cold weather, high gas prices and a heavy reliance on oil-fired generation.
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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.
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EDAM Town Hall Highlights ‘Pivotal Moment for the West’
CAISO leaders staged a virtual “town hall” to stress the importance of a smooth rollout to the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in May and promise to address market seams issues.
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Pathways Asks CAISO to Kickstart ROWE Funding Discussions
The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee asked CAISO to initiate a stakeholder process to create a funding mechanism for the newly incorporated organization that is slated to assume governance over the ISO’s energy markets.
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Western Market Seams Complicate Data Center, Clean Energy Investments, Panelists Say
As the West appears to move toward two separate day-ahead markets, data center developers like Google and clean energy companies are investing with the intent to mitigate seams and ensure operational consistency, panelists at an Advanced Energy United webinar said.
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ACEG Transmission Planning Report Card Gives Higher Grades for RTO Reforms
Americans for a Clean Energy Grid released an updated version of its report card, which generally shows improved scores as regions have implemented changes in the last couple of years.
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Facing Rising Demand, New England has Limited Options for New Supply
Conflicting political and market forces have created major uncertainty about what the next wave of generation project will look like in New England.
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CAISO Issues 1st Report Under Independent Governance Law
CAISO released its first mandatory report under the California assembly bill that paves the way for an independent regional organization to assume responsibility over the ISO’s energy markets.
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NYISO Pins High Electricity Prices on Global Gas Market
Rising electricity prices in New York are driven by the increased cost of gas because of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War and increased LNG exports, according to a recent policy paper by NYISO.

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