The federal government will create 48 “charging corridors” across nearly 25,000 miles of interstate highways in 35 states and D.C.

House and Senate negotiators met for the first time Thursday in an effort to reach agreement on the first broad energy bill in almost a decade.

ERCOT told its Technical Advisory Committee that it has drafted a revision to its planning guide requiring energy developers to notify the Department of Defense of any projects near military installations.

Two Arkansas landowner groups filed suit to block the 700-mile HVDC Plains & Eastern Clean Line project, questioning the legality of the project’s approval and its right to use eminent domain.

RTOs and ISOs will take part in 15 research and development projects awarded almost $38 million in funding by the Energy Department.

The bill includes includes provisions intended to protect the grid from terrorist attacks and natural disasters.

A roundup of news from the MISO Market Subcommittee on Dec. 1, 2015.

The Energy Department said it “did not identify widespread significant impacts as a result of construction or operations and maintenance" of the Plains & Eastern.

A key House committee approved what would be the first comprehensive energy legislation in eight years, but hopes for passage dimmed after amendments favored by the oil and gas industry and reductions in funding eroded bipartisan support.

Clean energy technologies like wind power are seen as beneficiaries of the Clean Power Plan.