Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Energy, positioned himself as a supporter of an all-of-the-above approach to developing generation and transmission before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

BPA is not planning to acquire any major energy resources but is taking steps to ensure it’s ready in case those predictions should change, staff said during a presentation of the agency’s 2024 Resource Program.

With days left in his administration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order aimed at siting and permitting cutting-edge artificial intelligence data centers on federal land by 2027.

Virginia legislators introduced a series of bills they hope to pass in a short session this year aimed at addressing demand growth from data centers through cost allocation of utility rates, increased transparency in planning and tying tax incentives to efficiency requirements.

PJM presented stakeholders with proposed manual revisions to implement a requirement that dual-fuel generators must offer schedules with both of their fuels into the energy market during the winter, as well as changes to the operational and seasonal testing for capacity resources.

The transmission companies behind a major project to preemptively build two offshore wind interconnection points in New England have submitted their first FERC filings for the project.

The Organization of MISO States advised MISO that it needs a central data-sharing platform for the participation of DER aggregators in its wholesale market.

FERC approved a diminished settlement with Total Gas & Power North America in a lengthy case, as a recent Supreme Court decision has impacted its enforcement processes.

LS Power closed on its deal to buy Algonquin Power's renewable business, adding thousands of megawatts around North America along with a deep development pipeline of clean energy projects.