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March 26, 2025
James Downing
D.C. Correspondent
James Downing has covered electricity for more than 15 years including at Restructuring Today/Power Markets Today and Congressional Quarterly. Before that he had a brief stint at a small daily newspaper in Massachusetts. He grew up in Maine. He is a Red Sox fan, pending the signing of Rafael Devers.

Recent Articles
All 7 ISO/RTOs Send Senior Executives to Update Congress on Reliability
ISO/RTO leaders explained the issues facing their markets and took some questions from members, with subjects like FERC's independence and the recent capacity price spikes in PJM coming up.
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Utilities Ask FERC to Toss Local Tx Planning Complaint; Others Support It
FERC was flooded with comments on a wide-ranging complaint filed by electricity consumers seeking increased oversight of local transmission planning.
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FERC Approves Duke Energy’s Order 2023 Compliance Filing
FERC approved Duke Energy's Order 2023 compliance filing, which leaves in place the utility's two-phase cluster study process designed to give interconnection customers more information on costs earlier in the process.
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FERC State of the Markets Report Shows Load Growth, Lower Prices
FERC's State of the Markets report showed lower wholesale energy prices but growing demand and higher capacity prices that signal a need to meet the coming load.
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ACP: Storage Set Installation Record for 2024
Storage set a new record of installations in 2024, but the forecasts for the rest of the decade are cloudy because of uncertainty around the future of tax credits and additional tariffs from President Trump.
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