Notice of Inquiry on Primary Frequency Response. In Docket No. RM16-6, FERC issued a Notice of Inquiry seeking comment on the need…
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…
Highlights from the January FERC Open Meeting
January 27, 2016By Miles Farmer, NRDC Alum While it’s fair to say that the Supreme Court’s landmark decision affirming FERC’s…
New FERC Guidance Will Help States Craft Better Plans to Cut Carbon Pollution
January 20, 2016New guidance from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will help states develop more reliable (and affordable) compliance…
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…
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…
What’s the (Demand) Forecast? More Energy Efficiency on the Radar
October 15, 2015By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum Accurately forecasting electricity demand is critical to ensuring that grid operators plan for…
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…
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…
ISO New England Inc., Docket No. ER13-1957-000, et al. FERC conditionally accepted the Order 1000 interregional transmission coordination…
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…
Highlights from FERC’s April Open Meeting Decisions
April 22, 2015Welcome and congratulations to Norman Bay, who took over as Chairman of FERC on April 15! Here are…
Environmental and Consumer Advocacy Groups Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Hear FERC’s Case for a Clean Energy Resource
February 17, 2015By Jennifer Chen, NRDC Alum NRDC together with 11 other environmental and consumer advocacy groups today filed a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
FERC Nominations Clear Big Hurdle
June 18, 2014The nation is one step closer to getting a full complement of commissioners on the Federal Energy Regulatory…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
Non-Transmission Solutions for Grid Problems
November 25, 2013Electric transmission grid managers routinely face grid planning challenges like aging infrastructure, power plant retirements, and a changing…
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…
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…
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…