Bipartisan efforts to craft a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are threatening tax breaks for renewables and storage, a former Senate aide told EBA.

ISO-NE is proposing a merger of two of its stakeholder working groups into the Emerging Technologies Working Group.

The NEPOOL MC discussed changes to the frequency of FCM parameter recalculations, the continuous storage facility model and cybersecurity reporting.

Vistra executives are confident their hedging strategy leaves the company “very well positioned” to take advantage of a tight natural gas market.

Connecticut legislators passed a bill that would require two state utilities to develop pilot programs to build, own and operate energy storage systems.

DOE is dedicating $3.1 billion to support development of new plants for battery material processing, focusing on materials such as lithium and graphite.

The U.S. Department of Energy issued new energy-efficiency standards for light bulbs that will effectively phase out incandescent bulbs by July 2023.

The U.S. has an abundance of critical minerals, but not the political will to build out mining and processing supply chains, USEA panelists said.

ISO-NE is developing a process for allowing energy storage projects to be used as transmission assets.

Hawaiian Electric withdrew plans to build a key battery storage system on Oahu; tight deadlines and supply chain issues appear to be the cause.