By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum In response to last winter’s Polar Vortex, which stressed much of our nation’s…
CAISO• Capacity Market• FERC• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
CAISO’s Flexible Capacity Proposal Approved by FERC
October 16, 2014By Joe Marren, NRDC Alum The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today largely approved a plan that would…
Demand Response• FERC• Litigation• Markets• PJM
Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Citizens Utility Board, Sierra Club, ENE (Environment Northeast) and PennFuture Support Parties’ Requests for Rehearing of Order 745 Decision
July 3, 2014Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Citizens Utility Board (CUB), Sierra Club, ENE (Environment Northeast),…
Demand Response• MISO• PJM• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Grid Planning for Extreme Weather Events
April 29, 2014Many of the nation’s major high power electric transmission owners have formed entities called regional transmission organizations (RTOs)…
FERC• Gas• Pipelines
FERC Takes Three Actions to Harmonize Gas and Electric Coordination
March 20, 2014By Joe Marren, NRDC Alum FERC today took several steps to address the growing interdependence between natural gas…
By Joe Marren, NRDC Alum In the wee hours of April 16, 2013, a sniper attack on PG&E…
Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• Reliability and Resilience
Demand Response to the Rescue as Power Plants Creak and Croak in the Cold
January 9, 2014By Vignesh Gowrishankar, NRDC Alum As most of us in the eastern half of North America can testify,…
Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• Energy Storage• FERC• Planning• Transmission
Non-Transmission Solutions for Grid Problems
November 25, 2013Electric transmission grid managers routinely face grid planning challenges like aging infrastructure, power plant retirements, and a changing…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• FERC• MISO• NYISO• PJM• Reliability and Resilience
Rethinking Electricity Capacity Markets
November 13, 2013In the field of electricity regulation, the primary goal of a capacity market is to ensure that sufficient…
Demand Response• Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Storage• FERC• Markets• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States• Transmission
Integrating Renewable Energy Resources into the Grid
September 23, 2013The amount of electricity produced with renewable energy, especially wind and solar power, is growing rapidly in the…
Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• FERC• MISO• PJM• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Transmission
Phasing Out Dirty Plants
September 23, 2013The Sustainable FERC Project’s priority is to accelerate the deployment of clean energy resources into America’s electricity transmission…
Renewable Energy• Transmission
Policy Blueprint for a Renewable Energy Future: America’s Power Plan
September 19, 2013By Carl Zichella, NRDC Alum There is a deep irony at work in the intersection of energy and…