Reliability and Resilience

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is examining the intersection between state energy…

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has directed his agency to conduct a hurried review of how environmental protection…

We depend on electric power like we do the air. Without electricity our society could not function. For…

By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments this week on the various challenges to the…

Part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2016 Energy Developments As 2016 fades away in the rear-view mirror, we…

By Paul Youchak and Taylor Jones , NRDC Summer Interns FERC Order No. 828 Brief Overview The Federal…

By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum FERC Upholds PJM’s Treatment of Demand Response In the wake of the U.S.…

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum FERC Will Address Issues Related to Competitive Transmission Development (AD16-18). On June 27…

Notice of Inquiry on Primary Frequency Response. In Docket No. RM16-6, FERC issued a Notice of Inquiry seeking comment on the need…

By John Moore, Senior Attorney, The Sustainable FERC Project The Clean Power Plan requires states to take grid…

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum, and Jackson Morris The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is…

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum While it’s fair to say that the Supreme Court’s landmark decision affirming FERC’s…

New guidance from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will help states develop more reliable (and affordable) compliance…

The latest edition of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) report on long-term power supply and reliability…

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum Promoting Competitive Provision of Primary Frequency Response Service (RM15-2). In February 2015, FERC…

October 20, 2015 by John Moore, Senior Attorney, The Sustainable FERC Project Written with the assistance of David…

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum Improving Price Formation: Settlement Intervals and Shortage Pricing in Markets Operated by Regional…

By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum PJM, the grid operator serving 61 million energy customers in the Mid-Atlantic and…

EPA’s just-released Clean Power Plan final standards will cut carbon pollution from our nation’s power plants while protecting…

Carbon-free energy and reliable electric service are like cookies and ice cream; while they’re good on their own,…

By Eric DeBellis, NRDC Legal Intern ISO New England, Inc., Docket No. ER15-1137-000 FERC accepted ISO New England’s…

This post originally appeared on Green Tech Media here. How to design capacity markets to ensure a flexible…

Welcome and congratulations to Norman Bay, who took over as Chairman of FERC on April 15! Here are…

An electric power industry organization has issued a new report on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to cut…

By Joe Marren, NRDC Alum A new Bipartisan Policy Center-Great Plains Institute report on the Clean Power Plan…

The Analysis Group’s Sue Tierney, a highly respected authority on electricity markets, testified (and here’s her one page…

Power plants are responsible for about 40 percent of our country’s carbon dioxide emissions that drive climate change. …

A new Analysis Group study has found that PJM, the RTO servicing the nation’s largest wholesale electricity market…

Don’t be fooled. Opponents of the president’s plan to fight climate change are stoking fears that cutting carbon…

By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum NRDC together with 11 other environmental and consumer advocacy groups today filed a…

States can meet or exceed the proposed limits on dangerous carbon pollution from power plants while preserving the…

By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum At its latest monthly meeting on November 20, FERC issued a number of…

Nov 18, 2014 by Steve Dahlke Steve Dahlke is a Policy Associate for the Great Plains Institute. King Arthur…

By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum In response to last winter’s Polar Vortex, which stressed much of our nation’s…

By Joe Marren, NRDC Alum The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today largely approved a plan that would…

Some energy industry observers recently have made much ado about concerns that the Mid-Continent Independent System Operator (or…

[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…

The U.S. Senate today approved President Obama’s nominations of Cheryl LaFleur and Norman Bay as commissioners of the…

By Sonia Aggarwal, Eric Gimon, and the experts of America’s Power Plan This post originally appeared here, and…

The nation is one step closer to getting a full complement of commissioners on the Federal Energy Regulatory…

By Stacey Steep, Legal Fellow with the Sierra Club This month, PJM, the largest grid operator in the country,…

Apr 29, 2014 by John Moore and Allison Clements In the grip of the “Polar Vortex,” much of…

Many of the nation’s major high power electric transmission owners have formed entities called regional transmission organizations (RTOs)…

PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest power transmission grid organization, announced last week that wind and solar power could…

By Mike Jacobs, Senior Energy Analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Climate & Energy Program Power grid…

By Mark Kresowik, Eastern Region Deputy Director for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign The East Coast was…

By Vignesh Gowrishankar, NRDC Alum As most of us in the eastern half of North America can testify,…

Opponents of power plant pollution control standards waved the red herring of grid reliability at a congressional hearing…

By Seth Kaplan, Vice President for Policy and Climate Advocacy at the Conservation Law Foundation Dealing with the…

In the field of electricity regulation, the primary goal of a capacity market is to ensure that sufficient…