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Within the arcane rules that govern New England’s regional power grid, there’s a ticking time bomb that threatens…

Last month, a winter storm caused millions to lose power in Texas; tragically, some lost their lives. The…

This blog was co-written with Andy Kowalcyzk, an independent consultant focusing on MISO South. Electric grids across the Midwest,…

Freezing cold temperatures put the Texas electric grid into distress this week, with dozens of deaths and other…

Here at NRDC and Sustainable FERC Project, we are working towards the clean energy future, and so is…

By Chris Casey and Cullen Howe New York’s ambitious clean energy agenda is running into a buzz saw…

The mid-continent’s electric grid is facing serious challenges. With more utilities and states aiming for ambitious clean energy…

By Cullen Howe, Senior Advocate and Rebecca Behrens, NRDC Schneider Fellow Today’s decision applying buyer-side mitigation (BSM) to…

It’s time for New England’s power grid operator, ISO New England, to start giving the climate crisis the…

By Jackson Morris, NRDC Director of the Eastern Region, Climate & Clean Energy Program and Cullen Howe, NRDC Senior…

By Jackson Morris, NRDC Director of the Eastern Region, Climate & Clean Energy Program and Cullen Howe, NRDC Senior…

 May 9, 2018 by Bruce Ho, Senior Energy Advocate The New England power grid is growing more resilient and…

By Bruce Ho, Senior Advocate and Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum A recent order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC),…

Increasingly desperate to keep its failing coal and nuclear plants afloat, FirstEnergy just asked the U.S. Department of Energy…

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum With Gov. Cuomo promising to announce a comprehensive energy efficiency strategy for New…

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum & Anthony Raduazo, Legal Intern A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of…

The New England power grid is rapidly changing as energy efficiency and wind and solar power increasingly replace…

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum New York’s quest to expand access to clean energy has taken a worrying…

The Senate has confirmed President Trump’s nominees to fill two of the four open seats on the Federal…

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…

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 Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum In a huge win for clean energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)…

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

By Tim Murphy, Program Assistant, Energy & Transportation Program FERC denies NY agencies’ attempt to stop AIM pipeline…

By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum In what is shaping out to be a banner year for energy regulatory…

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…

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

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…

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

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

By Steve Dahlke, Policy Associate for the Great Plains Institute Imagine yourself lying on a warm beach, maybe…

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

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…

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…