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November 21, 2024
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Consumer Advocates File Wide-ranging Complaint on PJM Capacity Market
A PJM graphic compares the variable resource rate (VRR) curve for the 2026/27 capacity auction with the year prior.
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Several state consumer advocates filed a complaint at FERC alleging PJM’s capacity market is failing to mitigate market power, overestimating future load and producing high clearing prices that generation owners cannot act on. 
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CAISO Kicks off ‘Workshop’ to Update RA Mechanisms
CAISO's Resource Adequacy Modeling and Design "workshop" is designed to reevaluate and refine several mechanisms the ISO uses to ensure resource adequacy.
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Most Stakeholders Support Special Interconnection Rules for Tribes
Most stakeholders support a proposal before FERC to exempt energy projects developed by federally recognized Native American tribes from deposits and other fees in the generator interconnection process.
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The Solar Energy Industries Association has tallied the largest cumulative installations of solar capacity and the largest planned installations among U.S. corporations.
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Corporate Solar Development Continues to Grow
In its latest “Solar Means Business” report, the Solar Energy Industries Association reports nearly 40 GW of on-site and off-site corporate capacity installed by March 2024.
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Solar array at the Workforce Training Center at Raritan Community College in North Branch, N.J.
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NJ Scrutinizes Solar Net Metering Strategy
New Jersey has launched a yearlong process to evaluate the effectiveness of its solar net-metering system and generate possible alternatives.
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SPP says its expects to have enough generation to dispatch and meet demand in its 14-state footprint this winter.
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SPP Has ‘Positive Outlook’ Heading into Winter
SPP expects to have enough generation to meet demand this winter following an assessment that indicated an increase in operational certainty over the previous two assessments.
Markets+ ‘Alert’ Covers CAISO’s Dual Roles as Market Operator, BA

CAISO will be inherently compromised in its role as an operator of a deeper Western market because of its conflicting responsibilities as BA within that market, a group of entities that support SPP’s Markets+ argue in their latest “issue alert.”

ISO-NE Details Regional Energy Shortfall Threshold Metrics
ISO-NE’s regional energy shortfall threshold will rely on a pair of metrics intended to capture the intensity and duration of energy shortfall risks in extreme weather scenarios, the RTO told the NEPOOL Reliability Committee.
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John Moura, NERC
NERC
NERC Files ITCS to FERC, Meeting Congress’ Deadline
NERC filed the completed Interregional Transfer Capability Study to FERC ahead of the December deadline set by Congress in the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.
Exelon Leader Discusses Physical Security Programs
An Exelon manager discussed the utility's physical security approach in light of the growing threat to the grid from both foreign and domestic actors.
NERC Standards Committee Briefs: Nov. 13, 2024
NERC's Standards Committee passed a slate of actions in its monthly meeting.
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NYPA President Justin Driscoll walks through a 1.9-MW rooftop solar array the authority developed at the University at Albany in 2022. NYPA is gearing up to develop larger renewables projects than those it traditionally has undertaken.
New York Power Authority
NYPA Urged to Do More in New Renewables Role
Clean energy advocates want NYPA to shoot for 15 GW of renewables rather than the 3.5 GW target in its draft plan.
Not Waiting for Trump, DOE Sends More IRA, IIJA Funds to Red States
The best way to Trump-proof the IRA funds is to get them out the door as quickly as possible, some advocates are saying. Unspent money could be at risk of never being spent.
EIA: Distribution, Transmission Led to Higher Utility Capital Spending
EIA data on utility capital spending over the past 20 years shows that an increase in distribution and transmission spending outweighed declines in generation spending.
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PUC Commissioner Jimmy Glotfelty (right), with Texas Nuclear Alliance President Reed Clay, details the report's recommendations during the Texas Nuclear Summit.
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Texas Now Wants to be No. 1 in Nuclear Power
Texas officials have released a report that lays out a path for the state to become a “global nuclear energy hub.”  
NYISO Board Approves RNA, 2025 Budget
The NYISO Board of Directors announced that it approved the ISO’s 2025 budget and incentive goals, along with the 2025-2029 Demand Curve Reset and the 2024 Reliability Needs Assessment.
Counterflow: Grid Apocalypse Not
"Chicken Little" claims about power outages being caused by the transmission grid being overtaxed do not stand up to scrutiny, says columnist Steve Huntoon.
OMS Survey: Another 1-GW Jump in DERs in MISO Footprint
By the Organization of MISO States’ count, MISO is up to nearly 13.6 GW of distributed energy resources in the footprint.
From left: moderator Sarah Shemkus, Energy News Network; Sarah Cullinan, MassCEC; Vinit Nijhawan, MassVentures; and Jenny Liu, Jupiter Power
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Mass. Energy Leaders Talk Barriers to Innovation at NECA Conference
Massachusetts lawmakers and industry members must double down on efforts to rapidly scale up new renewable technologies to meet the needs of the energy transition, speakers at the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association’s Energy Innovation Forum emphasized.
From left: Patrick Scully, Maine Public Service Commission; Karen Onaran, ELCON; Aubrey Johnson, MISO; Neil Millar, CAISO; Johannes Pfeifenberger, Brattle Group.
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‘Holistic’ Approach Needed for Tx Planning, NARUC Panelists Say
To ensure a cost-effective energy transition, stakeholders must approach transmission planning holistically and avoid piecemeal investments, panelists argued during the NARUC Annual Meeting.
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The Texas PUC discusses a management audit of CenterPoint Energy, as requested by the state's lieutenant governor.
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Texas PUC Approves 1st System Resiliency Plan
Texas regulators approved the state’s first utility resiliency plan, a $3 billion proposal from Oncor to bulk up its distribution system over the next four years to better withstand and more quickly recover extreme weather and other events.
NERC Sees ‘Reasons for Optimism’ as Winter Approaches
NERC staff said they see both signs of progress and looming challenges in the ERO's winter reliability assessment.
NERC: Board’s 321 Authority on the Table for Cold Weather Standard
NERC leadership is considering using its authority to streamline the development process on another standard, a member of the ERO's management said.
NAGF Takes on Cold-weather Standard’s Revision
The North American Generator Forum, an independent, member-driven organization designed to provide a “united voice” to NERC, is providing comments on NERC's Cold Weather Standard.
The standards are intended to satisfy the second milestone of FERC's Order 901 relating to inverter-based resources like solar and wind generation.
BLM
NERC Submits IBR Standards to FERC
NERC submitted five reliability standards to FERC this week as the first tranche of rules governing inverter-based resources mandated in an order last year.
A photo released by the FBI shows Philippi taking the drone that he planned to use to destroy a substation for a test flight. The shirt he is wearing reads "Toten fur Wotan," a German phrase meaning "Death for Odin."
FBI
Feds Accuse Tenn. Man of Substation Attack Plot
The FBI accused a Tennessee man of attempting to damage an electric substation using a drone loaded with explosives.
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From left: Colorado PUC Commissioner Tom Plant; Doug Vine, director of energy analysis at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions; Priya Barua, senior director of market and policy innovation at the Clean Energy Buyers Association; and Sara Baldwin, senior director of electrification at Energy Innovation.
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Trump Stokes Concern for Clean Energy, but also Hope for Opportunities
Clean energy experts at this year’s NARUC Annual Meeting expressed confidence in the U.S.’ progress toward decarbonizing the grid. But some also wonder about potential cuts to Inflation Reduction Act funding.
NY Gauging Industry Interest in Advanced Nuclear
The move comes two months after NYSERDA issued a draft blueprint for consideration of advanced nuclear technologies at a summit convened to discuss the state’s future energy economy.
Court Nullifies Sale of NY Peaker to Crypto Miner
Environmental advocates won a round in their long-running court battle over conversion of a New York peaker plant to a cryptocurrency mining operation 
Trump Picks Burgum to Head Interior, Fracking Exec Wright to Lead DOE
President-elect Donald Trump intendeds to nominate North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as secretary of the interior and Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy, as secretary of energy.
The Massachusetts State House in Boston
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Compromise Climate Bill Finally Approved by Mass. Legislature
The Massachusetts legislature finally has sent a wide-ranging climate bill to the desk of Gov. Maura Healey, who has indicated she will sign the legislation.
American Electric Power and Bloom Energy announced an agreement for AEP to buy up to 1 GW of Bloom’s fuel cell systems, shown in this undated photo.
Bloom Energy
AEP Adding Fuel Cells as Temporary Data Center Power
American Electric Power will meet data center power demand with what it calls the largest utility initiative of its kind in the nation, buying up to 1 GW of Bloom Energy’s solid oxide fuel cells.