By Carl Zichella, NRDC Alum A regional electricity transmission operator—almost certainly an expanded California Independent System Operator (CAISO)—may be inevitable…
By Montina Cole, NRDC Alum Several parties filed an appeal recently in the D.C. Circuit challenging the Federal…
By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum The market for energy storage is poised for rapid growth in New York,…
By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum NRDC and the Sustainable FERC Project, together with a coalition of clean energy and…
Litigation• Renewable Energy
Courts Cement States’ Authority to Advance Clean Energy
October 2, 2018By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum The courts have now spoken decisively: States have broad authority over energy policy.…
By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum A coalition of clean energy organizations is strongly pushing back on a recent…
PJM• Reliability and Resilience
What’s Resilience? It’s Not More Fuel or Higher Prices, PJM
May 9, 2018By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) early this year rejected the Department of…
By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum PJM, the transmission grid operator for parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, filed…
By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum With Gov. Cuomo promising to announce a comprehensive energy efficiency strategy for New…
Litigation• NYISO• Renewable Energy• States
State Clean Energy Authority at Stake in New York ZEC Case
March 12, 2018By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum & Anthony Raduazo, Legal Intern A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of…
Capacity Market• FERC• Markets
Diverse Coalition Sets Forth Vision for FERC Power Markets
March 7, 2018By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum Seeking to fix growing problems with certain wholesale electricity markets, an unusual coalition of…
Capacity Market• Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Storage• FERC• Markets• Transmission
FERC Storage Rule a Win for a More Flexible Grid
February 20, 2018By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency overseeing the competitiveness of the…
Capacity Market• FERC• PJM
No Love for Grid Operator’s Latest Costly Market Proposal
February 14, 2018By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum PJM, the electricity grid operator serving 65 million customers in 13 Mid-Atlantic and…
By Montina Cole, NRDC Alum The new chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently announced plans…
FERC• Reliability and Resilience
What’s Resilience? DOE Should Say Before Spending Your Money
October 23, 2017By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum The Department of Energy (DOE) recently proposed that American consumers further subsidize certain power plants (essentially, coal…
FERC• Reliability and Resilience
DOE’s Coal and Nuclear Bailout Proposal Should Be Rejected
October 23, 2017By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum The Trump administration’s outrageous plan to prop up the sagging coal and nuclear industries would…
NYISO• Renewable Energy• States
New York Stumbles in Finalizing Value-Based Solar Credits
September 18, 2017By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum New York’s quest to expand access to clean energy has taken a worrying…
Litigation• Renewable Energy• States
Federal Court Backs NY Power to Move to Lower CO2 Energy Mix
July 25, 2017By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum For the third time in less than a month, a federal court has…
Litigation• Renewable Energy• States
Another Court Confirms States’ Authority To Spur Renewables
July 17, 2017By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum States’ authority to enact clean energy policy was significantly bolstered last week in…
Capacity Market• FERC• Markets• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States
State Policies and Electricity Markets: Harmony or Conflict?
May 8, 2017By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is examining the intersection between state energy…
By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum This blog was updated on May 2 to reflect the availability of the…
Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Storage• FERC• Renewable Energy
FERC Should Remove Barriers to DER & Storage in Markets
March 10, 2017By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—the agency tasked by Congress to remove barriers…
Capacity Market• FERC• Litigation• PJM• Reliability and Resilience
Federal Judges Hear Arguments Against PJM Market Rules
February 21, 2017By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments this week on the various challenges to the…
Demand Response• FERC• NYISO• States
FERC Eliminates Barrier to a Cleaner, More Efficient Market
February 8, 2017By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum In a huge win for clean energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)…
By Paul Youchak and Taylor Jones , NRDC Summer Interns FERC Order No. 828 Brief Overview The Federal…
Demand Response• FERC• ISO-NE• MISO• PJM• Transmission
Highlights from the June FERC Open Meeting
June 24, 2016By John Bullock, NRDC Summer Intern FERC finalizes updates to price formation, removing barriers for flexible energy resources.…
CAISO• Distributed Energy Resources• FERC• PJM
More Recent FERC Decisions: Week of May 30th, 2016
June 17, 2016By John Bullock and Taylor Jones, NRDC Summer Interns FERC rejects PJM’s proposed tariff revisions, ensuring that the…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• PJM• Renewable Energy
PJM’s New Rules Skew Against Clean Energy; Silver Lining in a Lower Forecast
May 25, 2016By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum At a time when countries around the world have committed to cutting climate-warming…
Demand Response• FERC• MISO• NYISO• PJM• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Uncategorized
Highlights from the April FERC Open Meeting
May 5, 2016By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum FERC Upholds PJM’s Treatment of Demand Response In the wake of the U.S.…
FERC• MISO• NYISO• States• Transmission
More Recent FERC Decisions: Week of April 4th, 2016
April 26, 2016By Tim Murphy, Program Assistant, Energy & Transportation Program FERC denies NY agencies’ attempt to stop AIM pipeline…
Demand Response• FERC• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Highlights from the March FERC Open Meeting
March 25, 2016By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum FERC Will Address Issues Related to Competitive Transmission Development (AD16-18). On June 27…
PJM
PJM Report Indicates That the Most Expensive Power Plants Tend To Be the Most Polluting
March 24, 2016By Jennifer Chen, Attorney, NRDC Alum PJM, the regional grid operator serving 61 million energy customers in the…
FERC• Litigation• States
Supreme Court Will Weigh the Scope of States’ Authority over Their Electricity Mix
March 3, 2016By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum In what is shaping out to be a banner year for energy regulatory…
Demand Response• NYISO• Reliability and Resilience• States
New York’s First Emissions Regulations for Distributed Generation Will Slash Diesel Pollution
February 9, 2016By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum, and Jackson Morris The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• Distributed Energy Resources• FERC• Gas• Markets• MISO• Pipelines• Reliability and Resilience• Transmission
Highlights from the January FERC Open Meeting
January 27, 2016By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum While it’s fair to say that the Supreme Court’s landmark decision affirming FERC’s…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• FERC• Markets• MISO• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Highlights from the November FERC Open Meeting
December 9, 2015By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum Promoting Competitive Provision of Primary Frequency Response Service (RM15-2). In February 2015, FERC…
Capacity Market• Energy Efficiency• PJM• Transmission
What’s the (Demand) Forecast? More Energy Efficiency on the Radar
October 15, 2015By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum Accurately forecasting electricity demand is critical to ensuring that grid operators plan for…
Capacity Market• FERC• Gas• ISO-NE• Markets• MISO• Pipelines• PJM• Reliability and Resilience
Highlights from the September FERC Open Meeting
September 25, 2015By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum Improving Price Formation: Settlement Intervals and Shortage Pricing in Markets Operated by Regional…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• PJM• Reliability and Resilience
Auction Shows Mid-Atlantic/Midwest Consumers Will Pay More and For Dirtier Electricity Under New Rule
August 27, 2015By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum PJM, the grid operator serving 61 million energy customers in the Mid-Atlantic and…
Capacity Market• FERC• PJM
Good & Bad News in Continuing Fight for Equal Treatment of Clean Energy Resources in Mid-Atlantic and Midwest Power Markets
July 30, 2015By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum Some of the proposed wholesale capacity market rule changes that are projected to…
Capacity Market• FERC• Gas• ISO-NE• Pipelines
Highlights from the July FERC Open Meeting
July 21, 2015By Juliana Brint, NRDC Legal Intern Cost Recovery Mechanisms for Modernization of Natural Gas Facilities, PL15-1-001 FERC denied…
Capacity Market• FERC• ISO-NE• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
FERC June Open Meeting Decisions of Interest
June 23, 2015By Eric DeBellis, NRDC Legal Intern ISO New England, Inc., Docket No. ER15-1137-000 FERC accepted ISO New England’s…
Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• Energy Storage• FERC• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Important Electric Grid Recommendations from the U.S. Department of Energy’s New Report
April 27, 2015By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum The Department of Energy (DOE) recently released its first installment of its Quadrennial…
Reliability and Resilience• States
New Report Offers Policy Pathways for State Compliance with the Clean Power Plan
April 15, 2015By Joe Marren, NRDC Alum A new Bipartisan Policy Center-Great Plains Institute report on the Clean Power Plan…
Demand Response• Energy Efficiency
Technology and Market Tools Enable Deeper Energy Savings for Customers
March 25, 2015A new report by energy industry policy expert Paul Centolella provides regulators and utilities with timely recommendations on…
PJM• Reliability and Resilience
PJM Well-Prepared to Lower Carbon Pollution Without Reliability Problems
March 25, 2015A new Analysis Group study has found that PJM, the RTO servicing the nation’s largest wholesale electricity market…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• FERC• Litigation• Reliability and Resilience• Transmission
Environmental and Consumer Advocacy Groups Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Hear FERC’s Case for a Clean Energy Resource
February 17, 2015By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum NRDC together with 11 other environmental and consumer advocacy groups today filed a…
By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum In the waning hours of Congress this year, the Senate by voice vote…
Congress• FERC
Smooth Sailing for Colette Honorable at Confirmation Hearing before the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee
December 5, 2014By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum Colette Honorable, President Obama’s nominee to fill the empty seat at the Federal…
Capacity Market• FERC• Reliability and Resilience
Highlights from FERC’s November Meeting
December 3, 2014By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum At its latest monthly meeting on November 20, FERC issued a number of…