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Invenergy
Missouri AG Opens Inquiry into Grain Belt Express
Missouri's attorney general says he has opened an investigation into Invenergy’s Grain Belt Express transmission project, an 800-mile, HVDC line that has been under development since 2010.
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FERC Upholds MISO and SPP’s JTIQ Cost Allocation over Criticism
FERC found that MISO and SPP’s 100% cost allocation to generation for the pair’s $1.7 billion Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue transmission portfolio remains appropriate 
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PJM Board Selects Cost Allocation for Eddystone
The PJM Board of Managers is pursuing an approach that would spread the cost of continuing to operate Constellation Energy’s Eddystone Generating Station to all PJM consumers.
Consumers Energy
Half of MISO States Oppose DOE Order on Campbell Plant, Add Rehearing Request
Half of the Organization of MISO States have challenged the Department of Energy’s directive to keep the J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan operating through late August.
Duke Energy
Duke Energy Carolinas Authorized to Maximize Generation Amid Heat Wave
DOE issued an emergency order authorizing Duke Energy Carolinas to operate certain generation facilities at maximum output to meet heat-related demand.
Newkirk Electric Associates
Order to Keep Campbell Plant Running Challenged at DOE and FERC
The Michigan attorney general and a group of 10 NGOs have filed for rehearing of DOE's order to keep a coal plant running for this summer, while those parties and others debated the cost recovery filing Consumers Energy made at FERC.
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PJM Stakeholders to Examine Rules for Future DOE Emergency Orders
Looking ahead to the possibility of future emergency orders from the DOE, stakeholders endorsed a PJM issue charge to establish a more permanent set of rules for how to allocate the cost of keeping generation online beyond its desired deactivation date when ordered by the federal government.
DOE
DOE’s Wright Fields Senate Questions About Funded Project Reviews
Senators asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright about project spending his department has put under review or already cut when he testified about the Trump administration’s 2026 budget request.
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Wright Addresses Recent Orders Keeping Power Plants Open at Hearing

Energy Secretary Chris Wright talked about the process behind two recent orders mandating power plants that had planned to retire to keep running this summer at a House hearing that was focused on DOE's budget.

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PJM Board Initiates CIFP Process for Eddystone Compensation

PJM’s Board of Managers initiated a critical issue fast path process to determine how to compensate Constellation Energy for continuing to run two gas-fired units at the utility’s Eddystone plant under a DOE emergency order.


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