The United States is the world’s largest oil and gas producer, but energy abundance means little if that energy cannot reach the people who need it.
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PJM eyes option to jumpstart surplus interconnection pathway
After an earlier reform effort proved ineffective, the PJM Interconnection is taking a second swing at creating a pathway for bringing generation online by using surplus interconnection capacity at existing power facilities. Surplus interconnection service, called SIS, allows a new generator or energy storage system to connect to the grid at a power facility’s existing...
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More Current, Less Cost: Why Advanced Conductors are an Overlooked Grid Capacity Tool
To unlock affordable grid capacity, policymakers should require utilities to consider the best-available line technologies by default, while utilities themselves modernize planning to reinforce their affordability commitment to customers.
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China could control the future of energy if America doesn’t act fast
Rather than causing disparate groups to come together to recognize the importance of all forms of energy, oil prices have resulted in some pushing harder for oil and gas and others pressing harder for solar, wind and batteries. This is a false dichotomy. Both are needed.
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A Measured Response on Critical Minerals: Reflections from a Recent Roundtable
Before instituting sweeping policies that risk creating costs and distortions worse than the supply disruptions and Chinese dependence they aim to solve, Washington needs to weigh the benefits of intervention against its costs.
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Why a Tech-Neutral Energy Policy Is Important
Governments shouldn’t determine which forms of energy are “good” or “bad,” using subsidies and mandates to boost the good while imposing restrictions to hobble the bad. Instead, decisions about the fuel mix should be left to the market as much as possible.
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ISO-NE to review ‘asset condition’ transmission projects under proposal filed at FERC
ISO New England on Monday asked federal regulators to approve a plan that aims to provide increased oversight of “asset condition” transmission projects, a class of projects that are chosen and built by transmission owners mainly to replace aging infrastructure. Under the proposal — unanimously approved by ISO-NE’s stakeholders — the grid operator would review...
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FERC approves MISO cost recovery plan for transmission projects built in PJM
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday approved a cost allocation framework for transmission projects sought by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator but built in the PJM Interconnection’s footprint. Under the approved framework, Exelon’s Commonwealth Edison is set to build one group of projects totaling about $904 million and Duke Ohio is slated to build...
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Power crunch puts West Texas at risk of rolling blackouts, says grid official
One of Texas’ top grid officials warned Friday that the western part of the state could see rolling blackouts within five years if more transmission lines aren’t built. Woody Rickerson, chief operating officer of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, told the Public Utility Commission on Friday that all their demand forecast scenarios...
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Oil prices little changed as U.S. threatens ‘economic isolation’ of Iran
Oil prices were little changed Friday after the U.S. said its naval blockade of Iranian ports could continue “indefinitely,” reigniting concerns over energy flows through the critical Strait of Hormuz. Brent futures, the international benchmark, lost 5 cents to $87.02 per barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were 1 cent lower at...