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September 30, 2024

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Entergy
Entergy Touts Louisiana Settlements, Beryl Response in Q2 Earnings
Entergy promoted its Hurricane Beryl response alongside a pair of pending settlements with Louisiana regulators over rates and the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station during a second quarter earnings call.
Dominion Energy
Dominion Highlights Demand Growth, OSW Progress
Dominion earned $572 million in the second quarter of 2024 and logged six new peak demand records in July on the back of Virginia’s continued electricity consumption growth.
Bechtel
WEC Energy Group Concentrates on Natural Gas, Solar to Meet Data Center Growth
WEC Energy Group’s second-quarter earnings call zeroed in on the new natural gas and solar generation the company plans to bolster Wisconsin’s economic resurgence.
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Environmental Groups Seek Rehearing of MISO Sloped Demand Curve
The Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sustainable FERC Project are seeking a rehearing of MISO’s sloped demand curve in its capacity auction.
SPP
FERC Finds SPP Markets+ Tariff ‘Deficient’ in Several Areas
SPP’s Markets+ hit a snag after FERC issued a deficiency letter outlining 16 problems the RTO must address in the tariff it filed for the proposed Western day-ahead market in March.
Sandia National Laboratories
FERC Approves CAISO Request to Lift Soft Offer Cap for Hydro, Storage
FERC accepted CAISO’s proposal to allow for storage resources to bid above the ISO’s $1,000/MWh soft offer cap in the real-time market to account for their intraday opportunity costs.
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Maryland PSC Approves Grid Upgrades for New Data Center
Maryland has been promoting itself as a nearby, attractive alternative to Northern Virginia, and data center developers are starting to take a closer look.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Bill Easily Clears Committee
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 15-4 to advance the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 to the floor. 
Shutterstock
PSEG Planning for EV, Data Center Growth
New Jersey last year put an additional 62,426 new EVs on the road, a 68% increase over 2022, which has prompted some advocates to suggest the state is in reach of its goal of having 330,000 EVs in the state by 2025.
PJM
PJM Capacity Prices Spike 10-fold in 2025/26 Auction

PJM capacity prices increased nearly tenfold in the 2025/26 Base Residual Auction as a trifecta of load growth, generation deactivations and changes to risk modeling shrank reserve margins.


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