The U.S. Interior Department has announced plans to revise the Bureau of Ocean Management’s risk management and financial assurance regulations and develop a new rule that is in line with the Trump administration’s 2020 proposed regulatory guidelines. The amended measure, based on the 2020 proposed rule, would significantly reduce expenditures and red tape associated with…...
U.S. sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production has increased so far in 2025, in line with new capacity coming online, according to a May 6 report published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. U.S. production capacity, which was around 2,000 barrels per day (b/d) at the start of last year, rose to about 25,000 b/d in…...
PJM Interconnection on May 2 announced the selection of 51 generation projects aimed at quickly strengthening grid reliability as electricity demand rises and older plants retire. The projects, selected under the grid operator’s one-time Reliability Resource Initiative, or RRI, will collectively add over 9,300 megawatts of capacity over the next several years. RRI is a…...
Utility regulators across the U.S. are reviewing rate structures, interconnection processes, and grid planning to manage the growing electricity demand from large load customers, particularly data centers. While these facilities can…Read the full report…...
Utility regulators across the U.S. are reviewing rate structures, interconnection processes, and grid planning to manage the growing electricity demand from large load customers, particularly data centers. While these facilities can fuel economic development and innovation, they also raise concerns regarding grid reliability, allocation of infrastructure upgrade costs, and equitable treatment of other utility customers.
U.S. companies Bechtel and Westinghouse and Polish company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) on April 28 signed the Engineering Development Agreement (EDA) for Poland’s first AP-1000 nuclear power plant. The agreement follows on from an initial agreement and is a component of a bigger nuclear energy security agreement to construct large-scale civil nuclear reactors in Poland…....
The New York State Public Service Commission on April 24 approved channeling surplus funds from the NY-Sun initiative into new solar projects that benefit low-income households. The state is expected to reach its 10-gigawatt distributed solar goal with $421 million left over from the program’s original $3.27 billion budget. About $150 million of that surplus…...
The Trump administration has issued a series of executive orders aimed at revitalizing the U.S. fossil fuel industry, including removing barriers to coal mining and expanding oil and gas development on federal lands. The actions seek…Read the full report…...
The Trump administration has issued a series of executive orders aimed at revitalizing the U.S. fossil fuel industry, including removing barriers to coal mining and expanding oil and gas development on federal lands. The actions seek to reverse prior policy shifts, promote energy independence, and position fossil fuels as critical to economic growth, grid reliability, and national security.
