Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Citizens Utility Board (CUB), Sierra Club, ENE (Environment Northeast),…
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…
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,…
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…
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)…
Demand Response- An Underutilized Asset in the Midwest
March 17, 2014By Steve Dahlke, Policy Associate for the Great Plains Institute Imagine yourself lying on a warm beach, maybe…
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…
Looking to Reduce CO2 Emissions 40% from the Power Plant Sector?
March 4, 2014By Mike Jacobs, Senior Energy Analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Climate & Energy Program Power grid…
Rethinking Electricity Capacity Markets
November 13, 2013In the field of electricity regulation, the primary goal of a capacity market is to ensure that sufficient…
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…