This blog was co-authored by senior attorney Morgan Johnson and Joshua Briggs, a 2023 summer intern with the…
Climate Change• Gas• PJM• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Transmission
Winter Storm Elliott Report Highlights the Risk of Natural Gas Failures
July 20, 2023When the eastern United States was sheathed in snow and extreme cold during Christmas week last year, the…
Part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2022 Climate & Clean Energy Developments. This blog is co-written by NRDC…
Ever since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved its new gas pipeline policy statement last month, the gas industry and…
Gas• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Transmission
The Texas Storm That Proved the Need for Grid Investments
February 9, 2022It has been a year since Winter Storm Uri left millions of people without power. The United States…
It’s no secret that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s reviews of gas pipelines and export facilities need an…
NRDC, the Sustainable FERC Project, and more than 50 other organizations sent a clear message today to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: FERC…
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…
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…
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…
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• Congress• Energy Efficiency• Energy Storage• Gas• ISO-NE• LNG• Markets• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States
Senators Urge New England Grid Operator to Address Climate
September 19, 2019It’s time for New England’s power grid operator, ISO New England, to start giving the climate crisis the…
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…
Capacity Market• FERC• Gas• ISO-NE• Markets• Planning• Renewable Energy
New England Grid Operator Ignores Value of Offshore Wind
April 3, 2019The operator of New England’s regional electricity grid is asking federal regulators to approve a plan to pay…
Federal law requires that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) take a “hard look” at a proposed energy’s…
By Gillian Giannetti, Staff Attorney and Montina Cole, NRDC Alum NRDC, the Sustainable FERC Project (in which NRDC is a…
Energy Efficiency• FERC• Gas• ISO-NE• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States
State Clean Energy Laws Make New England Grid More Resilient
May 9, 2018May 9, 2018 by Bruce Ho, Senior Energy Advocate The New England power grid is growing more resilient and…
Three of the five members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—which oversees the siting and approval of…
Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Efficiency• Energy Storage• FERC• Gas• ISO-NE• Planning• Renewable Energy• States
Clean Energy Is Key to New England’s Fuel Security
March 12, 2018The New England power grid is rapidly changing as energy efficiency and wind and solar power increasingly replace…
Capacity Market• Gas• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
DOE’s Grid Study: Clinging to the Past
August 24, 2017By John Moore, Director and Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum DOE’s long-awaited grid study grasps for any possible rationale to support…
Congress• Distributed Energy Resources• FERC• Gas• Pipelines• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States• Transmission
Senate Approves FERC Nominees; Agency Regains Quorum
August 3, 2017The Senate has confirmed President Trump’s nominees to fill two of the four open seats on the Federal…
FERC• Gas• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
Perry’s DOE Study Has Little Power to Shape the Grid
July 28, 2017By John Moore, Director and Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum Anticipation is building in advance of the release of…
Distributed Energy Resources• FERC• Gas• Pipelines• Planning• Renewable Energy• States• Transmission
Trump Picks Two for FERC – Will Bipartisanship Continue?
May 9, 2017President Trump has finally announced his intent to nominate candidates for two of the three open seats on…
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• 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• 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…
FERC• Gas• ISO-NE• Markets• NYISO• Pipelines• Reliability and Resilience• SPP• Transmission
Highlights from FERC’s April Open Meeting Decisions
April 22, 2015Welcome and congratulations to Norman Bay, who took over as Chairman of FERC on April 15! Here are…
Energy Efficiency• Gas• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
NERC’s Report on Clean Power Plan Deeply Flawed, But the Lights Will Stay On
April 21, 2015An electric power industry organization has issued a new report on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to cut…
Energy Efficiency• Gas• Renewable Energy• SPP• Transmission• Uncategorized
Great Plains Power Grid Operator Sowing Confusion about the Clean Power Plan
October 9, 2014This post was updated following the public release of the study. The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power…
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…
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• 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…
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…