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NERC
Counterflow: Stop the Insanity, Trump 2.0
Columnist Steve Huntoon wrote recently about two of President Trump's executive orders. Now, he takes on a third executive order that he considers foolish.
Aurora Energy Research
Around the Corner: The Promise, Uncertainty and Unparalleled Risk of Data Center Load
Columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler writes about the explosion of data center load requests and the enormous risks to utilities and ratepayers of overbuilding assets.
© RTO Insider
Counterflow: Groove on the Rubble
Columnist Steve Huntoon discusses the "apparently unintended irony" in the Trump administration's latest executive order on FERC.
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Stakeholder Forum: Preparing for NERC Registration and Compliance with New IBR Rules
Consultant Terry Brinker warns about potentially hundreds of facilities being included in NERC's IBR rules, where fines and penalties can be as high as $1 million a day per violation.
David Keith's Research Group
Counterflow: A Climate ‘Game of Chicken’
Columnist Steve Huntoon says environmentalists are engaging in a "game of chicken" with climate because they won't consider solar geoengineering, such as sand or salt in the stratosphere.
EIA
Counterflow: Grid Apocalypse Not
"Chicken Little" claims about power outages being caused by the transmission grid being overtaxed do not stand up to scrutiny, says columnist Steve Huntoon.
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Stakeholder Forum: Kill Subsidized Energy Efficiency for the Public Good
State regulators, policymakers and utilities often argue that market failure justifies energy efficiency programs. Consultant Kenneth Costello disagrees.
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Stakeholder Forum: AI, Electric Grid Can be Partners in Equitable Energy Transformation
If data centers are connected to the grid they should contribute to the cost of the network infrastructure providing those services, Exelon Executive Colette Honorable said.
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Counterflow: Back to the Future
After writing 90 columns over 10 years, Steve Huntoon looks back at what he might have gotten right or gotten wrong.
Mike Jacobs
Stakeholder Forum: PJM Resists Battery Storage Reforms Given to Data Centers
Just as PJM negotiated provisions for data centers, they must do the same for battery storage. PJM’s next Order 2023 compliance filing is the time to make this change, says the Union of Concerned Scientists' Mike Jacobs.  

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