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The direction FERC takes during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term is up in the air, but the commission may spend some of its time attempting to cut costs to consumers.
Grid Status
Answering the question isn’t easy, according to CAISO staff and other electric industry experts, who say that while batteries are having a notable impact, several factors complicate the narrative that they’re displacing gas on the grid.
The White House
As they prepare to leave office, Biden administration officials remain confident that IRA funds already committed by DOE will be impossible to claw back by the incoming Trump administration.
CPS Energy
ERCOT’s request for must-run alternatives for cost-effective solutions to the congestion problems in San Antonio did not receive any responses by a Dec. 30 deadline, putting the solicitation in serious doubt.
Blade Energy Partners/CPUC
California regulators voted to keep the Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility running, saying the site of a massive gas leak in 2015 remains necessary to maintain reliability and reasonable rates.
ERCOT
ERCOT’s Board of Directors signed off on staff’s recommendation to move forward with executing an RMR contract for CPS Energy’s Braunig Unit 3, deferring a decision on the gas plant’s other two smaller units.
Meta
Entergy Louisiana confirmed a new, $10 billion Meta AI data center is the motive behind its recent filing to build three new gas plants at a combined 2.3 GW.
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Stakeholder opinions were sharply divided at the PJM Members Committee’s meeting regarding RTO proposals to allow high capacity factor resources to be sped through the interconnection queue and revise aspects of the capacity market.
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Energy leaders from the U.S. and Canada grappled with the challenges of balancing decarbonization and affordability at the New England-Canada Business Council’s Executive Energy Conference.
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ERCOT will recommend that its Board of Directors approve a reliability-must-run contract for one of three aging CPS gas units, set for retirement, to maintain reliability in the San Antonio area.
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