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NOAA
California Storms Fill Reservoirs, Build Snowpack
A series of storms have started to fill depleted hydroelectric reservoirs and build deep snowpack in California while also causing power outages and flooding.
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Massachusetts OKs Sharing Cost of Maine Wind Power
Massachusetts electric distribution companies have been authorized to take on up to 40% of a two-part, $1.7 billion clean energy project in northern Maine.
Ohio General Assembly
FERC Fines FirstEnergy over Ohio Bribe Payments
FirstEnergy agreed to another federal fine, this time for lying to FERC auditors about its role in the Ohio bribery scheme to bail out nuclear plants.
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Major Changes in 2022 Continue to Shape PJM Outlook in 2023
PJM's first order of business in 2023 will be a review of the “indicative” 2024/25 capacity auction results following concerns of artificially inflated prices.
The White House
Passage of the IRA Reshapes US Clean Energy Transition
The biggest clean energy story of 2022 was passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, rising improbably from the ashes of President Biden’s Build Back Better Act.
New York Power Authority
NYISO Management Committee Briefs: Dec. 21, 2022
NYISO CEO Rich Dewey announced to the Management Committee that Director Gizman Abbas had accepted a position on Talen Energy’s board of directors.
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PJM MRC/MC Briefs: Dec. 21, 2022
PJM's MRC rejected two proposals that would have created a “circuit breaker” mechanism to limit prices during extended periods of high prices.
Red Cliffs Desert Reserve
Hawks Key Concern in Draft EIS for Proposed Wash. Wind Farm
A draft environmental impact study for a proposed Washington wind and solar farm examines concerns about nesting areas for the region’s ferruginous hawks.
TVA
Memphis Turns Down 20-year TVA Supply Contract
The Memphis Light, Gas and Water Board of Commissioners unanimously rejected a 20-year, rolling power supply contract with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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DC Circuit Remands Conowingo Dam Licensing to FERC
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated FERC’s licensing of the Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River in Maryland, ruling in favor of environmental groups.

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