CAISO said total storage capacity and discharge capability nearly doubled in July compared with a month before in its latest summer market performance report.

A drought in the West is cutting into hydropower supplies needed for summer reliability, especially in California, panelists in a USEA briefing said.

The Pennsylvania DEP published a rulemaking requiring fossil fuel generators to obtain emission allowances under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Exelon’s Byron and Dresden nuclear plants depend on the Illinois legislature passing a comprehensive energy package, CEO Chris Crane said.

A Nevada bill intends to increase transparency around how much renewable energy the state is producing and how much of it is sold to other states.

Electricity demand will return to pre-COVID levels by 2025 while total energy consumption will likely lag until at least 2029, the EIA said.

Renewable resources will account for the largest proportion of new capacity this year, EIA predicted, though their growth will be tempered by COVID-19.

For his EnVision Forum, FERC Chair Neil Chatterjee chose his home state of Kentucky, dependent on coal plants, to discuss the changing energy landscape.

Gas-fired generation continues to rapidly gain market share at the expense of coal, a trend likely to accelerate this year, according to reports.

U.S. renewable electricity generation doubled over the last decade, the Energy Information Administration reported.