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July 24, 2024 PoliticoPro: FERC’s next big dilemma: How to pay for energy efficiency
"The complaints build on a long-simmering dispute among the market monitor, consumer advocates and the clean energy industry over whether efficiency programs should be treated like traditional generating resources."
The complaints build on a long-simmering dispute among the market monitor, consumer advocates and the clean energy industry over whether efficiency programs should be treated like traditional generating resources.
July 24, 2024 CUB Blog: Breaking: PJM committee vote strong step toward clean, affordable energy future
"In a strong step forward for affordable, reliable and clean energy, a committee at the nation’s largest power grid operator voted overwhelmingly to begin a discussion on how to design and evaluate cost-effective alternatives to running expensive, polluting power plants past their desired close date."
In a strong step forward for affordable, reliable and clean energy, a committee at the nation’s largest power grid operator voted overwhelmingly to begin a discussion on how to design and evaluate cost-effective alternatives to running expensive, polluting power plants past their desired close date.
July 14, 2024 Chicago Tribune: Advocates criticize bid by Illinois power grid operator to skip some federal reforms
“PJM is dragging its feet on the clean energy transition and doing everything it can, instead, to create exceptions for itself,” said Clara Summers, the Consumers for a Better Grid campaign manager at the Citizens Utility Board.
“PJM is dragging its feet on the clean energy transition and doing everything it can, instead, to create exceptions for itself,” said Clara Summers, the Consumers for a Better Grid campaign manager at the Citizens Utility Board.
June 25, 2024 Utility Dive: Consumer advocates ask FERC to halt PJM energy efficiency ‘addback’ in capacity market
The ratepayer advocates and four U.S. senators urged FERC to hold a technical conference on how best to ensure the participation of energy efficiency resources in wholesale markets.
The ratepayer advocates and four U.S. senators urged FERC to hold a technical conference on how best to ensure the participation of energy efficiency resources in wholesale markets.
April 21, 2024 Chicago Tribune: Wind and solar in limbo: Long waitlists to get on the grid are a ‘leading barrier’
As the clean energy transition surges ahead, with prices for electricity from wind and solar dropping and market share growing, long waitlists for new power sources seeking approval to connect to the electric grid have quietly emerged as a major barrier.
As the clean energy transition surges ahead, with prices for electricity from wind and solar dropping and market share growing, long waitlists for new power sources seeking approval to connect to the electric grid have quietly emerged as a major barrier.