New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is calling for a “Nuclear Reliability Backbone” of more than 8 GW as part of an all-of-the-above energy solution, which was among the more than 200 initiatives she floated as part of her State of the State Address.

SPP has hired former Idaho commissioner Kristine Raper as its senior director of state regulatory policy for the West.

After scrapping most Trudeau-era climate policies, Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to tighten rules over Canada’s industrial carbon markets, which observers say have failed to incentivize emission reductions.

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced a bill that would exempt large loads served on islanded systems from federal economic regulations for the electric industry.

Black Hills Colorado Electric has filed an application with Colorado regulators to join SPP's Markets+, saying it has no choice because it is embedded in a balancing authority that will be a Markets+ participant.

Ontario approved IESO’s proposed $1.5 billion HVDC line under Lake Ontario, which planners say is needed to meet a potential doubling of Toronto’s electricity demand by 2050.

Illinois became the 13th state to adopt a procurement target for storage after Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new bill aimed at shoring up reliability and affordability.

The Bonneville Power Administration outlined suggested modifications to its commercial business model as the agency explores updating transmission processes.

At an oversight hearing on new nuclear capacity, the two parties touted recent bipartisan legislation as helping move things forward, but Democrats said Trump administration cuts and moves to curb the NRC's independence creates crosswinds.

California’s electricity consumption is projected to increase dramatically over the coming decades due in large part to planned artificial intelligence data centers, although questions remain about how many of those data centers actually will be built.