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FERC Backs Off Interim Gas Permit and Climate Pollution Policy Updates
Following intense backlash from natural gas and LNG companies and federal Republican lawmakers, federal energy regulators suspended recently adopted interim...
Federal Regulators Lower PG&E Rate of Return to 9.3%
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected on a 4-1 vote Pacific Gas & Electric’s request to earn a 13.3% profit...
Fiery Senate Hearing as Pipeline Regulators Begin to Address Climate
Russia’s war in Ukraine and its impact on energy supplies took center stage at a March 3 U.S. Senate Committee...
FERC Tackles Natural Gas Pipeline Project Climate Emissions
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission revised its highly controversial gas pipeline certification process by establishing an unprecedented framework that accounts...
Federal Appeals Court Sides With San Francisco, Against PG&E for Distribution Roadblocks
A federal appeals court has sided with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and against federal regulators and Pacific Gas...
Federal Agency Pushes Grid Operators to Increase Distributed Energy
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has directed the California grid operator and five others to prove they are lowering market...
FERC Seeks Stronger Protections for Electric and Pipeline Systems
During its first meeting of 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission addressed only one issue: cybersecurity. It began work proposing...
Booming Clean Energy Highlights Transmission Needs
Record growth through the end of last September brought the combined installed wind, solar, and battery storage capacity in the...
FERC Okays Stronger Dam Safety Rules
A blowout in 2017 of the spillway below the highest dam in the U.S., the Oroville Dam on the Feather...
SCE Seeks Increased Income from Vegetation Work at Tehachapi High Voltage Project
The California Public Utilities Commission is urging federal regulators to reject a request by Southern California Edison to recategorize its...
Coos Bay, Oregon, LNG Facility Won’t Go Forward
The developer of the controversial LNG export project in Jordan Cove, Oregon, is calling it quits. On Dec. 1, the...
Inside the Beltway: FERC Goes After Market Violators
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recovered 14 times as much in penalties for energy market wrongdoings in 2021 than the...
Critical Federal Analysis of Klamath Dam Removal Due Beginning of the Year
It looks as though the long-awaited environmental impact analysis for a historic removal of four large dams on the Klamath...
Shorts
California’s community choice organizations signed agreements for 3,000 MW of clean energy supplies over the last year. “These projects reflect...
Natural Gas Prices Spike, Solar and Wind Buildout Continues
Meteorologists are forecasting a warmer winter across much of the United States, which often leads to slack demand for natural...
Shorts
Strong dry offshore winds resulted in Pacific Gas & Electric shutting off power to 25,000 customers in 20 counties starting...
Totally Different States, Same Problem: Resource Adequacy
In what could be a meaningful coincidence, the California grid operator approved costly reliability ‘must run’ contracts Sept 23 on...
News Roundup: SoCalGas Ends Lawsuit Alleging Energy Commission Was ‘Anti-Gas’
SoCalGas settled a lawsuit it filed last year against the California Energy Commission that claimed some of its work to...
Fed vehicle rule, FERC reconsideration of LNG, FERC vacancy
Draft clean car and light truck standards by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would make...
CPUC Updates Distributed Resources Plan to Capitalize on Broad Benefits
California’s groundbreaking 2016 Distributed Energy Resources Action Plan will be updated to better align rising levels of clean local renewables...