Don’t be fooled. Opponents of the president’s plan to fight climate change are stoking fears that cutting carbon…
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…
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…
Energy Efficiency• FERC• Gas• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
Lower Power Prices Likely This Winter, Even With Another Polar Vortex
September 4, 2014[symple_box color=”green” text_align=”left” width=”100%” float=”none”] Last winter’s extreme cold weather, coupled with flaws in the power markets, drove…
Capacity Market• Congress• FERC• Gas• Markets• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
Congratulations Commissioners LaFleur and Bay!
July 15, 2014The U.S. Senate today approved President Obama’s nominations of Cheryl LaFleur and Norman Bay as commissioners of the…
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),…
CAISO• FERC• ISO-NE• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Building NTAs into Power System Plans, Engaging Customers, and Evaluating Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards
June 24, 2014By Sonia Aggarwal, Eric Gimon, and the experts of America’s Power Plan This post originally appeared here, and…
Capacity Market• Congress• Demand Response• FERC• Reliability and Resilience• Transmission
FERC Nominations Clear Big Hurdle
June 18, 2014The nation is one step closer to getting a full complement of commissioners on the Federal Energy Regulatory…
Demand Response• Distributed Energy Resources• FERC• Litigation• Markets• Renewable Energy• States• Transmission
Court Deals Setback to Cleaner Electric Transmission Grid
May 25, 2014May 25, 2014 by John Moore and Allison Clements A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. has handed…
CAISO• Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• FERC• Gas• ISO-NE• Markets• MISO• PJM• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
The Polar Vortex and the Power Grid: What really happened and why the grid will remain reliable without soon-to-retire coal plants
April 29, 2014Apr 29, 2014 by John Moore and Allison Clements In the grip of the “Polar Vortex,” much of…
FERC• Litigation• Planning• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Order 1000 Has Its Day in Court
March 21, 2014The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an important set of reforms intended to save consumers money and…
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…
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…
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…
Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Storage• FERC• Renewable Energy
New Standards Ease Barriers for Rooftop Solar and Other “Distributed” Power Systems
November 22, 2013Today a federal agency issued new and better standards for connecting rooftop solar, wind, energy storage, and other…
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…
Energy Efficiency• FERC• Renewable Energy• States
The Good, the Hopeful and the Ugly: Clean Energy in America and New England in the Fall of 2013
September 30, 2013Sep 25, 2013 by Seth Kaplan, Vice President for Policy and Climate Advocacy at the Conservation Law Foundation. First,…
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…