1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (548+ words) “The Department’s reading of ‘emergency’ invites frequent federal interventions that are unsupported by the statute and threaten the stability of the energy market,” the ruling said. A federal appeals court on Friday vacated the U.S. Department of Energy’s emergency…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (14+ words) Front-of-meter solar, storage could serve 32% of California’s 2032 peak load: study Utility Dive...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (469+ words) The Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s proposal would fast-track reviews for generating projects that supply large loads that are served by the same substation, including colocated loads. MISO’s proposal is a partial response to FERC’s mid-June “show cause” orders finding that…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (193+ words) The MidAtlantic Resiliency Link was selected by PJM Interconnection in 2023 as part of its regional expansion plan, but there are questions about the need for the project and its route. PSC staff requested to delay the procedural schedule to allow…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (580+ words) BPA’s Travis Kavulla outlined governance-related criteria that need to be met for the federal power marketer to join the Extended Day-Ahead Market run by California’s grid operator. BPA participates in the CAISO-run Western EIM, which offers real-time balancing between electric…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (421+ words) The project is being developed by MN8 and will include 100 MWh of long-duration Eos Energy Enterprises zinc-based storage alongside lithium-ion batteries. The project is notable for the size of the zinc-based battery deployment — one of the largest to date. Most operational…...

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4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (500+ words) The U.S. Department of Energy under the Trump administration has financed three plant restarts and made other conditional commitments to bring nuclear power online. The U.S. Department of Energy has closed on a $1.9 billion loan to NextEra Energy to support the restart…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (519+ words) Load is growing again for the first time in two decades. Data centers, electrification, heat. The two traditional answers, more generation and more network, both arrive with a queue attached: the median wait from interconnection request to switch-on now runs…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (416+ words) Image created using AI Google Gemini The rapid emergence of AI is changing that equation. Traditional data centers typically consumed power at a steady rate. Thousands of small IT loads smoothed out variations, allowing planners to model facilities using static…...