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Measure Twice, Cut Once—A Roadmap for Enabling VPPs Through Policy and Program Design

March 14, 2024 admin California, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, hybrid power, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Massachusetts, New England, Policy, regulatory, Renewables, sustainability, utilities, virtual power plant, vpps

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:23:30 +0000

Virtual power plants (VPPs), as aggregations of dispatchable distributed energy resources (DERs), can deliver grid services ranging from resource adequacy to reliability at scale—all while making energy more affordable. Yet, […]

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FERC Approves MISO Interconnection Queue Reforms, Rejects Overall Queue Cap

February 2, 2024 admin Commentary, ferc, interconnection, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Markets, MISO, regulatory, Renewables, T&D

Credit to Author: Maxwell Multer| Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:10:29 +0000

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Jan. 19 approved most of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s (MISO) proposed revisions to its Generator Interconnection Procedures (GIP) designed to reduce the submission […]

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Empty Space—Navigating the Void of Pore Space Regulation in Texas

August 2, 2023 admin carbon, carbon capture and sequestration, carbon capture and storage, CCS, climate change, Commentary, Environmental, investment, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, regulatory, texas

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 05:31:39 +0000

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has spurred investment in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a key tool for decarbonization, by significantly increasing the tax credit for permanently sequestering carbon dioxide. […]

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NRC Completes Safety Review for Kairos Nuclear Test Reactor Within 18 Months

June 22, 2023 admin advanced reactor, Business, construction permit, flibe, full coverage, hermes demonstration reactor, high-temperature reactor, kairos power, Legal & Regulatory, licensing, news, NRC, Nuclear, oak ridge, regulatory, Research and Development, Safety, Technology, tennessee

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:17:41 +0000

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has wrapped up a final safety evaluation for Kairos Power’s 35-MWth Hermes “non-power” demonstration reactor, which the firm has proposed to build at the East Tennessee […]

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Judge Rules Montana Gas-Fired Plant Can Move Forward, While Landmark Climate Case Begins

June 12, 2023 admin burns & mcdonnell, caterpillar, Climate, Gas, judge, lawsuit, Legal, Legislative, Montana, natural gas, news, northwestern energy, power, regulatory, rice, Trial, yellowstone county generation station

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:25:00 +0000

A judge has ruled that construction of natural gas-fired power plant in Montana can resume, two months after the same judge ordered the project halted due to environmental concerns. The […]

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NRG Energy to Sell Texas Nuclear Plant Stake to Constellation in $1.75B Power Move

June 2, 2023 admin Business, constellation, energy markets, ercot, Markets, mergers and acquisitions, news, NRG Energy, Nuclear, regulatory, shareholder, stp, stpnoc

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:36:17 +0000

Constellation Energy, the largest nuclear generator in the U.S., will take over NRG Energy’s 44% ownership stake in the 2.6-GW South Texas Project Electric Generating Station (STP), a nuclear power […]

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More Than Statistics: Maximizing Value From FERC OE’s Annual Report on Enforcement

April 12, 2023 admin Commentary, enforcement, ferc, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, power, regulatory

Credit to Author: Maxwell Multer| Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:47:26 +0000

Each year, pursuant to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or Commission) Revised Policy Statement on Enforcement, FERC’s Office of Enforcement (OE) publishes “annual statistical reports” summarizing its enforcement activities […]

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NuScale Submits Standard Design Approval Application to NRC for Uprated SMR Design

January 5, 2023 admin Business, design certification, full coverage, Legal & Regulatory, news, NRC, Nuclear, NuScale, nuscale module, regulatory, sda, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:02:32 +0000

NuScale Power has submitted a standard design approval (SDA) application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) based on its six-module VOYGR-6 configuration, which will use uprated 250-MWth (77-MWe) modules. The step is crucial for the proposed construction of the 462-MWe Carbon Free Power Plant at an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. NuScale’s SDA application submitted […]

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GE Hitachi Formally Enters BWRX-300 SMR in UK Race for New Nuclear

December 22, 2022 admin advanced nuclear, Business, bwrx-300, energy security, finance, full coverage, ge hitachi, International, Markets, news, Nuclear, nuclear strategy, regulatory, Research and Development, smrs, Technology, uk

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:57:16 +0000

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has submitted a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) entry application for its BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) to UK authorities, kicking off a key regulatory process that could give the advanced nuclear technology a competitive edge as the country races to potentially triple its nuclear capacity to up to 24 GW by […]

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FERC: Investors with Utility Board Members are Affiliates

November 2, 2022 admin board of directors, Commentary, ferc, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, regulatory, utilities, utility

Credit to Author: Maxwell Multer| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 21:19:05 +0000

Building on analysis in its February 2021 Public Citizen, Inc. v. Centerpoint Energy, Inc. opinion, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently issued decisions in Evergy Kansas, Inc. (Evergy) and Transalta Energy Marketing (U.S.), Inc. (Transalta) analyzing whether investments that were under 10% of outstanding voting shares, but were paired with appointment of directors that […]

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