By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—the agency tasked by Congress to remove barriers…
Distributed Energy Resources• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
Powering into the Future with Renewable, Reliable Power
February 22, 2017We depend on electric power like we do the air. Without electricity our society could not function. For…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• FERC• ISO-NE• Litigation• Markets• NYISO• PJM• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
As Clean Energy Grows, Electricity Markets Must Evolve
January 5, 2017Part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2016 Energy Developments As 2016 fades away in the rear-view mirror, we…
FERC• ISO-NE• Litigation• Renewable Energy• States
Connecticut Clean Energy Law on Strong Legal Ground
December 7, 2016A federal appeals court is reviewing whether Connecticut’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) violates the Federal Power Act and…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• PJM• Renewable Energy
PJM’s New Rules Skew Against Clean Energy; Silver Lining in a Lower Forecast
May 25, 2016By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum At a time when countries around the world have committed to cutting climate-warming…
Demand Response• FERC• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Highlights from the March FERC Open Meeting
March 25, 2016By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum FERC Will Address Issues Related to Competitive Transmission Development (AD16-18). On June 27…
Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Efficiency• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States• Transmission
Reliability Prescription for States for Cutting Carbon Pollution: Plan Ahead, Plan Together
February 9, 2016By John Moore, Senior Attorney, The Sustainable FERC Project The Clean Power Plan requires states to take grid…
Demand Response• Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Efficiency• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
NERC’s 10-Year Grid Assessment: Enough Power, And Some Challenges
December 17, 2015The latest edition of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) report on long-term power supply and reliability…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• FERC• Markets• MISO• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Highlights from the November FERC Open Meeting
December 9, 2015By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum Promoting Competitive Provision of Primary Frequency Response Service (RM15-2). In February 2015, FERC…
Demand Response• Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Efficiency• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
New Texas Grid Operator Report on the Clean Power Plan Is No Cause for Alarm
October 20, 2015October 20, 2015 by John Moore, Senior Attorney, The Sustainable FERC Project Written with the assistance of David…
Energy Efficiency• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States• Transmission
10 Ways the Clean Power Plan Protects Electric Grid Reliability
August 5, 2015EPA’s just-released Clean Power Plan final standards will cut carbon pollution from our nation’s power plants while protecting…
Energy Efficiency• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States
The Grid Will Remain Strong—and Become More Reliable and Resilient—With Carbon-Free Energy
July 31, 2015Carbon-free energy and reliable electric service are like cookies and ice cream; while they’re good on their own,…
Capacity Market• FERC• ISO-NE• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
FERC June Open Meeting Decisions of Interest
June 23, 2015By Eric DeBellis, NRDC Legal Intern ISO New England, Inc., Docket No. ER15-1137-000 FERC accepted ISO New England’s…
Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• Energy Storage• FERC• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Important Electric Grid Recommendations from the U.S. Department of Energy’s New Report
April 27, 2015By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum The Department of Energy (DOE) recently released its first installment of its Quadrennial…
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…
Demand Response• Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Efficiency• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States
A Flexible Plan for Reliable Electric Service and Cleaner Air
March 30, 2015Power plants are responsible for about 40 percent of our country’s carbon dioxide emissions that drive climate change. …
Demand Response• Distributed Energy Resources• Energy Efficiency• Energy Storage• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States
New Report: States Can Cut Carbon Pollution and Protect Grid Reliability
February 14, 2015States can meet or exceed the proposed limits on dangerous carbon pollution from power plants while preserving the…
MISO• PJM• Planning• Renewable Energy
Wind and Solar Power: Transforming the Grid with Clean Energy – Reliably – Every Day
December 17, 2014Despite years of successful experience, dozens of studies, and increasing utility support for clean energy, urban myth holds…
Energy Storage• MISO• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Positive Developments in the Search for the Holy Grail of Renewable Energy
November 18, 2014Nov 18, 2014 by Steve Dahlke Steve Dahlke is a Policy Associate for the Great Plains Institute. King Arthur…
Capacity Market• Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
Which do you like better: Clean Energy & Your Money or PJM’s Proposed Capacity Market Reforms?
November 6, 2014By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum In response to last winter’s Polar Vortex, which stressed much of our nation’s…
Energy Efficiency• Renewable Energy
Environmental Standards Will Help Reduce Consumer Electricity Bills
October 30, 2014The electric power industry is changing, driven by many factors. Leading the way are quintessential marketplace factors like…
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• 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…
Energy Efficiency• Planning• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Court Upholds FERC Order 1000: Major Victory for Clean Energy and Consumers
August 15, 2014Terrific news! A federal court today upheld in its entirety the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) groundbreaking electric…
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• 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• Demand Response• Energy Efficiency• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
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,…
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…
Demand Response• MISO• PJM• Planning• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
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)…
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…
Capacity Market• PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• States• Transmission
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…
PJM• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy
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…
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…
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…
Energy Efficiency• Reliability and Resilience• Renewable Energy• Transmission
Building a Clean Energy Future: Transmission Is One Piece of the Puzzle
December 3, 2013By Seth Kaplan, Vice President for Policy and Climate Advocacy at the Conservation Law Foundation Dealing with the…
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…
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…
Renewable Energy• Transmission
Policy Blueprint for a Renewable Energy Future: America’s Power Plan
September 19, 2013By Carl Zichella, NRDC Alum There is a deep irony at work in the intersection of energy and…