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DOE offers $50M for tribal energy projects
The funding opportunity outlines program policy factors that can influence the selection of projects for awards, including “the degree to which the proposed project will support the supply of firm, reliable power.”
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Utility-scale solar and wind hit a record 17% of US generation in 2025: EIA
“Combining utility-scale and small-scale solar generation in 2025 increases the share of wind and solar to 19% of total net generation,” said the Energy Information Administration.
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Puget Sound’s vehicle-to-home charging pilot combines demand response, peak shaving, resilience
The test will use electric vehicle batteries for demand response and residential peak shaving while also making their storage capacity available during power outages.
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Q&APepco Holdings CEO talks rising demand, affordability and PJM market reforms
Adding power supplies in PJM — including utility-owned generation — is one way to address affordability challenges, says Pepco Holdings CEO Tyler Anthony.
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Data center buildouts slowed late last year
“Power and electrical equipment is still the main driver of construction delays,” said Gordon Dolven, CBRE data center research director.
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OpinionPJM’s crisis has a simple solution: Copy what works in regulated states
The competitive market was supposed to produce lower prices, but when faced with the first big demand shock in decades, it delivered chaos, writes Power for Tomorrow President Brad Viator.
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NextEra to develop 9.5 GW of gas in Texas, Pennsylvania
The projects are part of a $550 billion deal with Japan that also includes 3 GW of nuclear in Tennessee and Alabama and 9.2 GW of gas generation in Ohio, federal officials say.
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TotalEnergies accepts $1B offshore wind buyout, pivots to oil and gas in US
Under the terms of the settlement, the company said it will invest an equal amount in the development of U.S. gas and power production and exports.
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DOE extends emergency operations at 2 Indiana coal plants
Since December the plants “have proven critical” to operations in the Midcontinent ISO region, DOE said. Sierra Club says they cost consumers almost $200,000 per day.
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Maryland ratepayer advocate calls for greater transmission oversight as costs rise
Costs to customers in the state could reach $5.4 billion for transmission built from 2031 through 2035, compared with $7.1 billion spread over the previous 20 years, according to the advocate.
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OpinionUtilities must ask AI vendors these questions to meet critical infrastructure protection standards
Utilities deploying AI tools may be creating a compliance gap that will become visible only when auditors start asking questions, writes Eric Swidey, founder of Thirty Seven Inc.
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‘Emergencies’ requiring coal plants to stay open need not be imminent, DOE tells court
States, environmental groups and others have sued the U.S. Department of Energy over its repeated emergency orders to run the J.H. Campbell plant in West Olive, Michigan, saying it failed to show the emergency need.
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Better grid utilization could save customers $170B: Brattle report
However, the report’s lead author said that “we need regulatory models that reward utilities for pursuing this opportunity.”
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Deep DiveDrone attack simulation exposed a grid vulnerability, utilities say
Power grid asset owners and operators have growing concern around their ability to protect critical assets from drone attacks as the U.S. government warns energy companies to prepare for possible Iranian retaliation.
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Opinion5-year waits and rising costs: How demand is redefining the gas turbine market
Lengthy lead times are likely to continue for now, and reliability in that environment depends on early, informed decisions, writes Electric Power Research Institute Senior Program Manager Bobby Noble.
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DOE taps SoftBank arm to develop 9.2 GW of gas generation in Ohio
SB Energy, a subsidiary of Japan’s SoftBank Group, is also investing $4.2 billion with AEP Ohio to upgrade and build new transmission lines in Southern Ohio.
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FERC rejects RWE complaint over PJM interconnection practices
The agency also slashed New England’s transmission return on equity and said it would allow two Indiana utilities to spread costs stemming from DOE emergency orders keeping coal plants online across MISO’s northern and central regions.
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January’s Winter Storm Fern was ‘classic near-miss’ for US grid, says NERC’s Robb
“The system ran very close to the edge, leaving no room for error,” Jim Robb, president and CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corp., told a House subcommittee.
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Electric sector gas use fell 3% in 2025, partly on solar, battery rise: EIA
Consumption rose for all other sectors, however, making 2025 a record year for U.S. gas consumption.
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Enhanced geothermal deployment could be compressed to under 3 years: report
“This represents a 70% to 75% reduction from the seven-to-ten-year timeline frequently cited for conventional geothermal development on federal land,” said the Center for Public Enterprise in a report.
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OpinionWhy data centers will need a ‘bring your own power’ strategy
If the AI boom is not handled correctly, we will put grid stability and public trust at odds with tech-led growth, writes Ameresco CEO George Sakellaris.
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LS Power strikes deal to buy 4.4 GW in PJM from Constellation
The transaction is the latest in a series of gas-fired power plant sales in the PJM Interconnection market, where growing demand for electricity is cutting into available supply.
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Deep DiveDOE emergency orders for fossil plants complicate utility planning, experts say
Lawyers and officials are divided on whether the “stay-open” orders threaten states’ ability to regulate their own energy systems. Environmental groups put the cost to ratepayers in the hundreds of millions, and growing.
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Battery developers, local officials ask New York to roll back Con Edison BESS methodology
“The grid has been built to serve customers, not to host battery storage anywhere, at any scale,” a Con Edison official told Utility Dive.
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Tesla, LG to build $4.3B battery plant as part of supply agreement
The Michigan manufacturing facility is scheduled to open in 2027 and will provide batteries for Tesla’s Megapack 3 utility-scale energy storage systems.
