Renewable Energy

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum For the third time in less than a month, a federal court has…

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum States’ authority to enact clean energy policy was significantly bolstered last week in…

Update: On August 17, 2017, in a very short order, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied Allco Finance’s…

The Trump Administration continues to promote its “coal above all” mantra. Department of Energy Secretary Perry claimed last…

President Trump has finally announced his intent to nominate candidates for two of the three open seats on…

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…

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum This blog was updated on May 2 to reflect the availability of the…

By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—the agency tasked by Congress to remove barriers…

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

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

A federal appeals court is reviewing whether Connecticut’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) violates the Federal Power Act and…

By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum At a time when countries around the world have committed to cutting climate-warming…

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

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

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…

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…

By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum The Department of Energy (DOE) recently released its first installment of its Quadrennial…

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

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

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

Despite years of successful experience, dozens of studies, and increasing utility support for clean energy, urban myth holds…

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…

The electric power industry is changing, driven by many factors. Leading the way are quintessential marketplace factors like…

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

This post was updated following the public release of the study. The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power…

[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…

Terrific news! A federal court today upheld in its entirety the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) groundbreaking electric…

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…

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

May 25, 2014 by John Moore and Allison Clements A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. has handed…

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)…

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an important set of reforms intended to save consumers money and…

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…

A cold Sunday morning in Washington, DC isn’t when you would expect to find hundreds of utility regulators…

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

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…

Today a federal agency issued new and better standards for connecting rooftop solar, wind, energy storage, and other…

Sep 25, 2013 by Seth Kaplan, Vice President for Policy and Climate Advocacy at the Conservation Law Foundation. First,…

The amount of electricity produced with renewable energy, especially wind and solar power, is growing rapidly in the…

By Carl Zichella, NRDC Alum There is a deep irony at work in the intersection of energy and…