The nation is one step closer to getting a full complement of commissioners on the Federal Energy Regulatory…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
Nation’s Largest Electricity Market Has Enough Power Through (at least) 2018
May 27, 2014By Stacey Steep, Legal Fellow with the Sierra Club This month, PJM, the largest grid operator in the country,…
Capacity Market• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States• Transmission
Nation’s Largest Grid Operator: Huge Renewables Expansion Won’t Be a Problem
March 10, 2014PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest power transmission grid organization, announced last week that wind and solar power could…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• FERC• Planning• Renewable Energy• States
A Reminder of the Need to Get More Clean Power onto the Electric Grid
February 10, 2014A cold Sunday morning in Washington, DC isn’t when you would expect to find hundreds of utility regulators…
Capacity Market• FERC• Gas• ISO-NE• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States
Polar Vortex Shows We Need More Efficiency, Wind, and Solar, Not Coal or Gas
February 5, 2014By Mark Kresowik, Eastern Region Deputy Director for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign The East Coast was…
Capacity Market• Congress• Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• Gas• MISO• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States
We Can Have Both a Reliable Grid and a Cleaner Environment
December 9, 2013Opponents of power plant pollution control standards waved the red herring of grid reliability at a congressional hearing…
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…