U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright opened the CERAWeek conference with a plenary session during which he praised fossil fuels and bashed clean energy.

FERC granted a MISO Midwest-wide cost allocation for Northern Indiana Public Service Co.’s and CenterPoint Energy’s coal plants kept online by order of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Challenges are piling up to Trump administration orders to keep retiring coal plants online, as the Colorado attorney general and environmental groups have filed petitions to overturn an extension of Craig Station Unit 1.

The Department of Energy argued its use of Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act to keep retiring power plants online is well within its authority in response to an ongoing emergency on the grid.

Public interest organizations have taken their challenge of the Department of Energy’s emergency orders keeping two Indiana coal plants operating past their planned retirement dates to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

NERC CEO Jim Robb said in congressional testimony that while the bulk power system made it through the late January winter storm reliably, the weather highlighted how at risk it is.

The Department of Energy extended an order that will continue to keep Washington’s last remaining coal-fired plant open past its long-scheduled retirement at the end of 2025.

The Trump administration announced energy, technology and resource deals worth $56 billion coming out of an Asia-Pacific energy security summit.

The war in Iran is not expected to lead to higher domestic natural gas prices in part because higher oil prices tied to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz mean more oil production and related gas supply from the Permian Basin, the EIA said.

CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market saw an increase in battery storage capacity and coal use in 2025 compared with 2024, although the total load across the market did not increase over the year.