FERC Storage Rule a Win for a More Flexible Grid
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency overseeing the competitiveness of the wholesale electricity markets and high-voltage interstate transmissio...
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No Love for Grid Operator's Latest Costly Market Proposal
PJM, the electricity grid operator serving 65 million customers in 13 Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states and the District of Columbia, is deciding whether it wi...
Our Grid Needs to Go on a Diet to Get Leaner and Greener
Many regions of the United States have overbuilt and retained too many power plants, which can be detrimental to their owners, consumers, clean alternatives lik...
PJM Asks of FERC: Abandon Basic Economic Principles
In its recent comments at FERC on the DOE proposal, PJM floated an idea that would inflate electricity market prices, particularly for large, inflexible, coal a...
What's Resilience? DOE Should Say Before Spending Your Money
The Department of Energy (DOE) recently proposed that American consumers further subsidize certain power plants (essentially, coal and nuclear power plants) by ...
Court Sides with FERC, Against Consumers and Clean Energy
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval of controversial new rules for America’s largest power market. We a...