SPP regulators agreed to keep up their collaboration with MISO regulators, saying the effort is pressuring the RTOs to resolve their seams issues.
MISO will ask FERC for more time to plan the complicated process of opening its markets to distributed energy resource aggregators, RTO officials said.
Stakeholders in SPP’s Western Imbalance Service market unanimously approved its Feb. 1 launch, the last major milestone in a project that began in 2019.
Many of the nation’s largest utilities plan on using fossil fuels through 2030, threatening efforts to mitigate climate change, the Sierra Club reported.
The California Energy Commission updated its 2020-2030 forecast to account for the COVID-19 pandemic and increased electric-vehicle charging.
SPP staff and stakeholders have added an accelerated decarbonization future to the RTO’s 20-year long-term assessment.
The New York PSC approved filings by the state's utilities implementing cost recovery and sharing plans with ratepayers for storage resources.
President Biden named Commissioner Richard Glick as FERC chairman, replacing Republican James Danly, who held the gavel for little more than two months.
New York state energy agencies released a study urging faster permitting, planning and approval processes to build transmission to accommodate renewables.
President Biden immediately began to reverse the Trump administration’s energy and environmental policies, including rejoining the Paris Agreement.