FERC will soon issue a rule that affects our clean energy future. It needs to get this right.…
Federal regulators have largely approved a new electricity market that will help enhance system reliability, lower costs to…
FERC• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
The Grid Is A-Changing—and Grid Operators Need to Change With It
December 19, 2023This blog is co-written by NRDC Senior Strategic Director David Doniger. When it comes to the current sturm…
Surging demand for clean energy from wind, solar, and batteries, declining costs, and public policies that support the…
This blog is co-written by NRDC attorney Morgan Johnson. Many thanks to energy analyst Talia Calnek-Sugin for her…
FERC• Renewable Energy• Transmission
We Can’t Let Aging Transmission Stall Clean Energy Progress
December 12, 2023For more than a century, our power grids have served as the backbone of a system that has…
Energy Storage• FERC• Renewable Energy
Batteries Can Be a Game Changer for the Power Grid If We Let Them
November 6, 2023This blog is co-authored by NRDC Schneider Fellow Annie Minondo. How much would you pay for a battery…
FERC• MISO• Renewable Energy• SPP• Transmission
A New Interconnection Queue Backlog Solution Gets Major DOE Backing
October 24, 2023This blog was coauthored by Kelly Tran, a summer intern with the Sustainable FERC Project. A greener future…
FERC• Renewable Energy• Transmission
FERC’s New Interconnection Rule Modernizes the Process to Bring Clean Energy Online
August 28, 2023By Christine Powell and Ada Statler of Earthjustice, reposted from Earthjustice.org. This summer, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission…
This blog was co-authored by senior attorney Morgan Johnson and Joshua Briggs, a 2023 summer intern with the…
Just a few weeks into summer, the United States is undergoing its second round of blanketing heat waves in the…
FERC• Reliability and Resilience
Summer Grid Forecast: Blustery Headlines, Steady Reliability
June 1, 2023This time every year, families across the country kick off the summer with time-honored traditions: kids get out…
Power generator members of PJM are asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—the independent agency that oversees the…
If you’re hearing more about the importance of electric power lines as the United States moves toward a…
Part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2022 Climate & Clean Energy Developments This year saw the most consequential…
FERC
Sustainable FERC 2022: The Good, the Promising, and the Unfortunately Predictable
December 14, 2022Part of NRDC’s year-end series reviewing 2022 climate and clean energy developments This past year saw a meaningful…
Part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2022 Climate & Clean Energy Developments. This blog is co-written by NRDC…
This blog is co-authored by Tom Rutigliano. In February 2021, Texas’ power infrastructure buckled during a week-long cold…
There are about 1,300 gigawatts (GW) of new resources—primarily renewables and storage—waiting to connect to power grids across…
FERC• Reliability and Resilience
FERC’s Winter Outlook Shows Need for an Updated Grid
October 15, 2022In its much-anticipated winter assessment, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) forecasts that U.S. electricity markets should have…
Climate Change• FERC• Reliability and Resilience• Transmission
FERC Begins to Plan for the Age of Extreme Weather
September 12, 2022This summer has confirmed what the world’s top climate scientists have warned about for years: Climate change is causing more…
When I raced sailboats on Lake Michigan, so much of the action took place before the start. Each…
After intense protests from state leaders, consumer advocates, and environmental groups, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and…
The electric system is undergoing a major transformation driven by consumer preferences for low-carbon electricity, state clean energy…
Ever since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved its new gas pipeline policy statement last month, the gas industry and…
It’s no secret that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s reviews of gas pipelines and export facilities need an…
Most people believe the United States has a power grid that stretches from coast to coast. But the reality is that we have…
FERC• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Transmission
Building a Better (and Cleaner!) Electric Grid
October 21, 2021Many people have wondered how we will decarbonize our grid given the fact that the wind doesn’t always…
FERC• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Plan for the Grid We Need, Not the Grid We Have
October 13, 2021Our power grid is stuck in the 20th century; we are more than two decades overdue for an…
Demand Response• Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Storage• FERC
Major Barrier to Demand Response Needs to End
August 25, 2021If federal regulators do the right thing, electricity customers across the Midwest may soon be able to earn…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must keep four themes in mind as it establishes its Office of Public…
NRDC, the Sustainable FERC Project, and more than 50 other organizations sent a clear message today to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: FERC…
Capacity Market• Climate Change• FERC• ISO-NE• Markets• Renewable Energy• States
Time to Repeal New England’s Anti-Consumer Dirty Energy Rule
April 15, 2021Within the arcane rules that govern New England’s regional power grid, there’s a ticking time bomb that threatens…
Climate Change• FERC• Gas• LNG• Pipelines
FERC Takes a Step Forward on Environmental Impacts
March 22, 2021The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission took an important and positive step forward regarding its consideration of a gas…
Climate Change• FERC• Gas• LNG• Markets• Pipelines• Renewable Energy• Transmission
FERC Can Lead the Way on Clean Energy
January 21, 2021Yesterday President Biden named Rich Glick to be the new chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the nation’s energy regulator. After years in…
The United States—the world’s top producer of natural gas—extracts far more gas than we need to satisfy domestic…
FERC• Gas• Pipelines• South
Three Lessons Learned from the Axed Atlantic Coast Pipeline
July 6, 2020Dominion Energy and Duke Energy have announced that they are cancelling their beleaguered, billions-over-budget boondoggle, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Storage• FERC• Litigation• Markets• NYISO• Renewable Energy
NRDC Sues FERC Over Orders that Threaten NY Clean Energy
June 30, 2020NRDC is suing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in federal court to overturn two FERC orders that…
Grid planning for an achievable clean energy future is at a crossroads. The rapid growth in wind and…
FERC• Gas• Litigation• LNG• Pipelines• West
NRDC Sues FERC over Unlawful Jordan Cove LNG Project
May 28, 2020This blog was authored by NRDC fellow Alison Gocke, who has worked with Gillian on the Jordan Cove…
Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• FERC• Gas• ISO-NE• Markets• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
New England Grid Operator Misses the Mark on Clean Energy
May 22, 2020The company running the power grid in the six New England states is making a costly and environmentally…
Capacity Market• Energy Efficiency• FERC• Litigation• PJM• Planning
FERC’s Power Grab
April 21, 2020A coalition of environmental groups is suing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in court to reverse FERC’s…
FERC• Gas• Litigation• Pipelines• South
SCOTUS Debrief: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Cowpasture Case
February 25, 2020The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday on whether the Atlantic Coast Pipeline can lawfully cross the Appalachian…
Capacity Market• Energy Storage• FERC• NYISO• Renewable Energy• States
FERC Excludes Clean Energy From NY’s Capacity Market
February 20, 2020By Cullen Howe, Senior Advocate and Rebecca Behrens, NRDC Schneider Fellow Today’s decision applying buyer-side mitigation (BSM) to…
FERC• Gas• Litigation• Pipelines• South
A Walk in the Woods: Pipelines and the Appalachian Trail
January 22, 2020By Gillian Giannetti, Staff Attorney and Sharon Buccino, Director of Nature Program Land Division at NRDC You may…
It’s been almost two years since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced that it would take a fresh look at…
Capacity Market• Energy Storage• FERC• NYISO• Renewable Energy• States
NY Explores More Hands-on Role in Resource Adequacy, Part 1
August 8, 2019By Jackson Morris, NRDC Director of the Eastern Region, Climate & Clean Energy Program and Cullen Howe, NRDC Senior…
Capacity Market• Energy Storage• FERC• NYISO• Renewable Energy• States
NY Explores a More Hands-on Role in Resource Adequacy Part 2
August 8, 2019By Jackson Morris, NRDC Director of the Eastern Region, Climate & Clean Energy Program and Cullen Howe, NRDC Senior…
FERC• Gas• LNG• Pipelines• West
Three Strikes, You’re Out: The Unneeded Jordan Cove Project
July 11, 2019Developers who wish to build new interstate gas pipelines or liquefied natural gas (LNG) export or import terminals…
The DC Circuit fired a warning shot this week at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and its analysis of…