While many states and cities have set ambitious policy goals to increase renewable energy, achieving a sustainable energy landscape in the United States has been made difficult by a variety of roadblocks, such as navigating state and local permitting authorities.
To help address the layers of reg... Read More »
Facing a steep growth in demand for electricity, the power sector must adjust to decarbonize the grid while maintaining grid resiliency, based on federal, state and corporate emissions targets.
But for clean energy resources to be deployed faster, strong leadership is key and winning technologies... Read More »
Data centers are driving up electricity needs, and leaders in the power sector are wondering how to meet the demand as well as ambitious federal decarbonization goals.
The head of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation said the answer to this complex reliability problem might come fr... Read More »
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators came together for an electric reliability hearing to share concerns about meeting the rising demand for electricity from the tech sector, particularly as new EPA rules would push baseload coal and natural-gas power offline earlier.
In a Tuesday hearing for the ... Read More »
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved in a 2-1 vote the first transmission policy update in more than a decade. Order No. 1920 directly addresses interstate transmission development with specific requirements for transmission providers, with the goal to expand capacity on the grid... Read More »
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) long-awaited transmission planning and cost-allocation proposal is being considered on May 13 in a special meeting. Before the introduction of this particular rule, first proposed nearly two years ago, advocacy groups have been debating issues conn... Read More »
The San Diego City Council on Thursday rejected a proposal to directly add a question to the ballot on whether to municipalize the electric and gas utility in San Diego, a plan that would cost city taxpayers billions of dollars.
The initiative from Power San Diego, a local activist effort launche... Read More »
In a testament to what can be achieved through collaboration, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Edison Electric Institute's Institute for the Energy Transition, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Council convened a group of specialists in ... Read More »
With the complexity of the bulk electric power system in North America, it has become critical for leaders across multiple sectors to come together every other year to test out stress points in the system.
The GridEx VII simulation in November, hosted by the North American Electric Reliability Co... Read More »
When Hawaii's state legislature came into session in January, dozens of bills were proposed seeking to mitigate wildfire risks. Following the devastating Maui fire in August, the governor's office and the biggest utility in the state, Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO), are throwing their support behind a... Read More »