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Nice story on the controversy over solar in a corner of Idaho. Nice to see the gray areas on issues instead of pretending it can be black and white. (A bit tl:dr though.) 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Breaking news today: Federal court rules DOE was wrong to force coal plant to stay open. Ramifications for all of the other such orders. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/143205-dc-ci...

Big deal for those in the know. Northwest utility officials make last-minute plea for BPA to NOT reverse course and join CAISO's EDAM and stick with SPP's Markets+ 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/142160-for-b...

What you're missing if you're not subscribed to @rtoinsider.bsky.social 68 pages = one week of news on rtoinsider.com 🔌💡

So much at stake. So much in flux. Here's one nuance of the data center boom - who's going to make the turbines to generate the power? 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/141659-mad-s...

ACP The grid is not a collection of standalone assets; Pairing thermal generation and renewables with energy storage creates a portfolio that is cleaner, faster to deploy and more resilient than gas alone. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/141186-new-b...

Fascinating conundrum. How do you socialize the costs? Making utilities pay just raises the rates. Same with insurance. Pre-emptive fire mitigation of utility lines also causes rates to rise quickly. California is trying to figure it out. Maybe harden homes or not build in danger zones?🔌💡

In electricity markets, "virtual transactions" are used to arbitrage price differences between day-ahead & real-time energy markets & hedge financial exposure from physical positions. What are increment offers; decrement offers; up-to congestion trades? 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/23402-virtua...

Mark Christie, Re: FERC on PJM governance: "Do not settle for cosmetic half measures to get some ‘kumbaya’ moment that falls short of what is needed." 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/139339-chris... @yes-energy.bsky.social

Quite the abrupt change of direction for Texas. The backlash against data centers seems to concern all sides of the political spectrum at this moment. 🔌💡

A modest data center project in a small city in southeastern Nevada could test the federal government’s ability to support the artificial intelligence industry by siting computing facilities on public lands. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/hNWe50ZrcfL Writer: Scott Streater

Data centers and associated rate impacts are highly politicized. An ominous sign? 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/133119-nv-en...

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has issued its final order in a closely watched case to set a framework for confronting the costs of powering large load data centers and other heavyweight industrial users. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/TbUz50YYw3O Writer: Sean Reilly

Nearly 40% fewer U.S. solar power projects reached completion in the fourth quarter than in the third quarter as developers pivoted to start new projects in time to qualify for tax credits. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/JNKO50Ys9xs Writer: John Cropley

Packed house, beautiful venue, fantastic presentations. EMPOWER26 in Boulder last week. @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/126892-empow... @jessedjenkins.com

The challenges of meeting accelerating load growth pervaded discussions at EMPOWER 26, Yes Energy’s annual summit. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/FA1650YnQ8o Writer: Jon Lamson

Study: keeping coal plant open, $80 million/year. 🔌💡

Despite the hoopla, the data shows a continued optimism for renewable energy development and a continued lag for fossil-fired generation. 🔌💡

I'm sorry, the Washington Post hopes *I* will reconsider the value of their journalists?

Get to know Simon Mahan! He has valuable opinions.

❄️The growth of renewable energy resources could lead to challenges hitting resource adequacy targets, NERC warned, especially during winter early-morning peaking hours when the output of such resources is lowest. Get the full story with @rtoinsider.bsky.social hubs.ly/Q0413c1H0 🔌💡

Interesting ...

The PJM capacity market's rising prices and generation shortfalls have placed the RTO at the center of the dialogue around resource adequacy issues stemming from new large loads. 🔌💡

Quite popular with our readers: This plan would allow large customers like data centers to set up their own private power grids that are exempt from economic regulation. (Free registration required.) 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/123103-gop-s...

Why you need a subscription to RTO Insider. A comprehensive, 54-page pdf report on regulatory issues around electricity generation, load growth and transmission. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/wp-content/u...

Why subscribe to @rtoinsider.bsky.social ? Because you get things like this special edition with the top stories in 2025 in electricity regulation. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/newsletter-a...

And at a time when interconnection queues are measured in years, integrating batteries can enable developers to build larger renewable projects than the interconnection point otherwise would allow. 🔌💡

NV Energy said it is discussing a potential new resource adequacy program with other participants in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/Ak4w50XfXR2 Writer: Elaine Goodman

⚡ERCOT is changing — do you understand recent price trends? Discover: ✅ Why summer 2025 prices stayed flat ✅ What’s behind negative congestion in the south & Panhandle ✅ How West Texas intrazonal congestion is creating LZ_WEST premiums over HB_WEST 👉 blog.yesenergy.com/yeblog/histo... 🔌💡

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin requested that PJM reopen the nomination process for two open seats on its Board of Managers to consider two candidates recommended by the states. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/4N6B50X0OV8 Writer: Devin Leith-Yessian

Texas regulators have approved Entergy Texas’ request to build two natural gas-fired generating units in MISO’s portion of the state. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/Rzo250WVJkg Writer: Tom Kleckner

Stop after Alien 2.

The Texas Public Utility Commission has selected the first four projects under the Texas Energy Fund's Outside #ERCOT program. The grants total more than $240 million, about a quarter of the program's allocated funds. See the full story at @rtoinsider.bsky.social ➡️https://hubs.ly/Q03GfmV90 🔌💡

Just as renewable energy advocates predicted, MISO's claim of a "broad mix" of energy sources in the interconnection queue express lane actually means 74% gas plants. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/113407-gas-g...

Friday news dump No. 3: IRS Guidance on Wind and Solar Credits Not as Bad as Feared. Some renewables companies see their stock prices soar. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/112706-irs-g...

Surprise: Trump said to nominate Democrat to head FERC. Rosner, a former Joe Manchin aide, seen as friendly to fossil fuels and locating data centers with nuclear power plants, top Trump priorities. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/112110-repor...

US Energy Regulations Adding Pressure to Existing Market Barriers. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social blog.yesenergy.com/yeblog/model...

Excuse his French, but it is Samuel L. Jackson, after all. A great ad for offshore wind.

"PJM Is Flailing, but There’s a Solution," say opinion writers. "If PJM actually planned to strategically locate dispatchable generation, such as natural gas, it could make some of the renewables projects more viable..." 🔌💡 Agree? Disagree? www.rtoinsider.com/111260-stake...

DOE's orders to keep two power plants open this summer use the Federal Power Act Section 202(c) in new ways and now the courts will determine whether its actions violated the law. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/111026-oppon...

@ferc.gov Chair Mark Christie made some nice comments about @rtoinsider.bsky.social at his last press conference. youtu.be/QxxD7tZoVpA?... 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social

DOE terminated its $4.9 billion conditional loan commitment for the long-delayed Grain Belt Express project, saying it is “not critical” for the federal government to support the project. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/110736-doe-p...

“This study was not a transmission planning study but as we were trying to meet the demand in different scenarios, we realized that it is cheaper to build transmission rather than meet the demand locally with local generation,” SPP said. www.rtoinsider.com/101197-spp-s...

There's a new solar record in ERCOT. A few minutes ago, solar exceeded 25,000 megawatts of production for the first time, equaling 52% of demand. Emission free sources (wind, solar, and nuclear) are producing about 75% of power demand today.

I THOUGHT I knew what targeting and roughing the punter were.

From Bantam Communications. Spot on. #energybsky