November 25, 2024

Public Policy

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Northeast Utility Commissioners Talk Costs of Grid Modernization
Increasing electricity prices must be met with a greater effort to reduce peak loads and protect low- and moderate-income ratepayers, several Northeast utility regulators said at Raab Associates’ New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable.
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Dominion CEO Says Virginia Well Poised to Meet Growing Demand
A growing economy driven by new data centers has demand surging in Dominion Energy’s utility territory, CEO Robert Blue said in a speech.
ERCOT
ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee Briefs: Sept. 19, 2024
ERCOT stakeholders have endorsed changes to the grid operator's ancillary services methodology as part of the annual process to determine the minimum amount of products that will be procured in 2025.
ATC and ITC Midwest
ITC President Krista Tanner Pushes for Permitting Legislation
Transmission policy has made some progress lately, but ITC President Krista Tanner came to Capitol Hill to get one more item over the finish line — the permitting bill.
DOE
Constellation to Reopen, Rename Three Mile Island Unit 1

Constellation Energy plans to reopen Three Mile Island Unit 1 under a power purchase agreement with Microsoft to sell about 835 MW to serve the company’s data centers.

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SPP Pushes Back on Western Market Delays
Three independent SPP board members providing oversight of the RTO’s Markets+ development in the West have called for policy- and decision-makers to allow the process to “follow its natural course.”
Southwings
FERC Dismisses Muni’s Complaint Against Dominion over RGGI Charges
FERC dismissed a complaint the Virginia Municipal Electric Association filed against Dominion Energy’s Virginia Electric Power Co. alleging the utility overcharged its members $2.8 million.
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DC Circuit Orders Could Lead FERC to Rethink its Natural Gas Policies
A pair of recent appeals court decisions signal a shift in how the courts view FERC's approvals of natural gas infrastructure and has the commission considering its next steps, Chair Willie Phillips said at a Sept. 19 open meeting.
West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative
Comments on Western RO Stakeholder Plan Show Complexity of Effort
Stakeholder comments filed with the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative illustrate the complexity of building the new kind of Western regional organization envisioned by backers of the effort.
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MIT Report Proposes Policies to Grow Use of Advanced Transmission Technologies
Advanced transmission technologies can help utilities meet the rising levels of demand that are stressing the grid, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

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