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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

30Jul

“It is actually here now”

“The reliability threat is not on the future horizon,” Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman (FERC) Mark Christie said last week. “It is actually here now.” Christie, who was overseeing his last FERC meeting before departing the commission, was responding to results from PJM’s recent capacity auction—an auction that for the first time came up short […]
  • On July 30, 2025
  • electricity prices, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Mark Christie, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), PJM Interconnection, Politico, Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
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24Jul

The AI Power Surge is Here and Coal is Essential to Meeting It

Big tech’s scramble to deploy ever-larger data centers to serve AI has become the electricity elephant in the room. Across the country, power demand is soaring, and data centers with the energy needs of entire cities – and even states – are driving the surge. Meeting this new demand will require new generation but also […]
  • On July 24, 2025
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), ICF International, Jesse Jenkins, Manu Asthana, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, National Mining Association (NMA), Rich Nolan, Trump administration
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02Jul

Happy American Energy Independence Day

Energy abundance. Energy security. Energy independence. As we approach July 4th, our Independence Day, it’s worth taking a moment to recognize the leap forward the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) provides to boosting American energy production and reversing the damaging legacy left by the prior administration. In the closing months of the Biden administration, the […]
  • On July 2, 2025
  • Biden Administration, Congress, energy security, federal coal leasing, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), John Barrasso, Mark Christie, Trump administration, Wyoming Energy Authority
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11Jun

Aligning Energy and Regulatory Policy with the AI Moment

It has become hard to overstate the impact AI and data centers are having on the power sector. This is an industrial revolution on an extraordinary scale. At a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) conference on grid reliability last week, regulators and grid operators once again sounded the alarm over the challenges they collectively face […]
  • On June 11, 2025
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI), blackouts, Data centers, Department of Energy (DOE), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), PJM Interconnection, power demand, Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
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04Jun

Racing to Cover Capacity Shortfalls

Need more evidence we’re in a power supply emergency? Look no further than how the nation’s grid operators are scrambling to fast-track interconnection of new dispatchable resources that can shore up eroding reliability. From the Great Plains to New York, operators are frantically trying to revise interconnection processes to get new generation added to grids […]
  • On June 4, 2025
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, ICF International, Mark Christie, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), NYISO, PJM Interconnection, Rich Dewey, Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
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28May

A Grid Emergency in MISO

Well, that didn’t take long. Before the boiling heat of summer has even officially arrived, the lights went out in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) region. More than 100,000 customers in and around New Orleans went without power for most of the day on Sunday when MISO was forced to order rotating outages in […]
  • On May 28, 2025
  • blackouts, Chris Wright, Department of Energy (DOE), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, ICF International, John Bear, Mark Christie, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), PJM Interconnection, plant retirements
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21May

A Demand and Price Shock

As electricity prices continue to rise and grid reliability warnings proliferate, electricity demand projections are only growing more aggressive. A new report from consulting group ICF International sees U.S. electricity demand jumping 25% by 2030 and 78% by 2050 compared to 2023. That surge in demand will have huge impacts on already teetering reliability and […]
  • On May 21, 2025
  • electricity prices, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, ICF International, Mark Christie, power demand, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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23Apr

Yes, it is an Energy Supply Emergency

With so much understandable focus on meeting soaring new power demand from the AI revolution and hyperscale data centers, it’s easy to forget the nation entered this moment already facing a grid reliability crisis. The reshoring of industry, electrification and the rapid loss of dispatchable power were already enough to push grid operators to warn […]
  • On April 23, 2025
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, International Energy Agency (IEA), International Monetary Fund, Manu Asthana, Mark Christie, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), PJM Interconnection
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19Mar

Undoing the Regulatory Assault on Grid Reliability

Just a week ago the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the “biggest deregulatory action in history,” announcing 31 actions to unleash American energy, lower the cost of living, restore the rule of law and give power back to states to make their own decisions. Notably, on the urgent issue of rapidly eroding grid reliability, the […]
  • On March 19, 2025
  • Clean Power Plan 2.0, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Mark Christie, Michael Regan, National Mining Association (NMA), Rich Nolan
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19Feb

Manufacturers Join the Chorus: Keep the Coal Fleet Open

In just a matter of weeks, momentum has swung decisively in favor of preserving the coal fleet. First, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman, Mark Christie, put out a statement saying the nation must “stop the premature retirement of dispatchable generation.” He was followed by the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, who said the U.S. should […]
  • On February 19, 2025
  • Chris Wright, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA), Mark Christie, natural gas, power demand
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