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Deep Dive
A new era of price-based demand response emerges, but utilities and regulators need proof of its potential
New load flexibility from price-based demand response programs could be invaluable if reliability and cost-effectiveness is confirmed in real-world operating conditions, stakeholders agree.
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DOE makes $1.5B conditional loan commitment to help Holtec restart Palisades nuclear plant
The 800-MW Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan could be restarted alongside the development of a pair of small modular reactors capable of doubling the facility’s output.
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Opinion
Election year opportunities — and pitfalls — for emerging energy companies
Whether you are a renewable energy firm, energy manufacturing group, private investor in the space or other stakeholder, there are many ways you can become politically active and effective.
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Interior Department approves 924-MW Sunrise Wind project offshore New York
Owners Ørsted and Eversource Energy have also reached a final investment decision, “solidifying [their] commitment” to build the project, according to a joint release.
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ERCOT to survey customers about cost of power outages
Responses will help regulators estimate the value of lost load and ultimately set a reliability standard for the Texas grid.
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States shouldn’t have to pay for transmission driven by other states’ policies: FERC’s Christie
Loading up a pending transmission planning and cost allocation rule with more legally dubious provisions will increase risks in its “uncertain future,” FERC Commissioner Mark Christie said.
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Sonnen CEO aims to repeat company’s Utah virtual power plant success
The company has been helped by Utah regulators and Rocky Mountain Power seeing the value in a distributed, dispatchable portfolio that could potentially scale faster than new fixed generation, Blake Richetta said.
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White House funds $6B to decarbonize US industrial sector
The Department of Energy offered grants for 33 projects in eight historically high carbon-emitting industries such as aluminum, concrete and chemicals.
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Maine on track to meet energy storage goals, report finds
With roughly 215 MW of standalone energy storage projects in the works, and more capacity coming from generation plus storage projects, the 300 MW by 2025 goal seems achievable, according to a state commission.
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FERC doesn’t act on dispute over Salt River Project’s rooftop solar rules, teeing up possible court battle
The decision stems from a petition filed by Vote Solar and several SRP customers over the Tempe, Arizona-based utility’s rooftop solar program.
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To chart its transition away from gas, Massachusetts launches energy transformation office
Headed by a former National Grid executive, the office will convene a task force with representatives from utilities, municipalities, business, labor and the supply chain industry.
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Opinion
The SEC makes the call: Climate risk equals financial risk
When the SEC’s climate disclosure rule is paired with other climate reporting directives, the shift within the financial landscape will be monumental.
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ISO/RTO Council urges FERC to nix NERC’s proposed cold weather reliability standard
The proposal includes “glaring exceptions” and “vague requirements,” threatening grid reliability, major grid operators told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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Senators press FERC nominees on climate, natural gas, transmission cost allocation
Republicans on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee focused on the issue of fuel neutrality and whether the nominees would uphold it.
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US energy storage capacity rises 4.2 GW in Q4 2023, full-year additions up 90% over 2022
Grid-scale battery installations drove the increase, with California and Texas accounting for 77% of total Q4 additions.
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Opinion
Grid technology could save billions but for a policy vacuum
Separate studies by Quanta Technologies and the Brattle Group found that using grid-enhancing technologies in generator interconnection could reduce wholesale energy costs nationwide by over $5 billion per year.
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FERC affirms generator interconnection rule, but ‘it’s not a silver bullet,’ Christie says
Renewables and storage make up the majority of interconnection queue projects, but they are “not one-for-one replacements” for retiring dispatchable power plants, Commissioner Mark Christie warned.
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SEC to face all climate rule challenges in US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
The agency had nine legal challenges to its rule requiring public companies to disclose certain climate risks consolidated into one venue.
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Treasury issues clarifying guidance on the IRA’s energy community bonus credit
The guidance expands the definition of an energy community and the nameplate capacity attribution rule for offshore wind projects.
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ICC’s decision on 2024 energy conservation code draws criticism, debate
The International Code Council, after receiving nine appeals, has voted to move provisions aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions from the main code to appendices.
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Potential benefits of Atlantic offshore wind transmission network are more than double the costs: DOE
Building a “backbone” transmission line to connect offshore wind farms on the Atlantic coast would cost $116 billion but could also yield billions in annual savings, according to the DOE.
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Opinion
Nuclear boosterism has gotten reckless
Today's misguided focus on nuclear power is diverting us from renewables, storage and efficiency, hobbling us in our race against climate chaos.
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Granholm tells Congress ‘adjustments have been made’ to distribution transformer proposal
The U.S. Department of Energy’s plan to improve the efficiency of distribution transformers could exacerbate shortages of the critical devices, threatening electrification efforts, lawmakers said Wednesday.
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Microsoft, Google, Nucor partner on initiative to spur emerging 24/7 clean power technologies
The Advanced Clean Electricity initiative aims for widespread commercial deployment of advanced nuclear, next-generation geothermal and long-duration storage by the early 2030s.
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Constellation Energy’s $900M green bond is first in US directed at nuclear power, company says
The bond could also be used for “clean hydrogen, energy storage systems, wind repowering and carbon-free energy solutions for Constellation’s commercial customers,” the company said.