Policy & regulation
Rep. Sean Casten on Hot FERC Summer and how to prepare the US grid for rapid decarbonization
Plus, tips on how to trick people into caring about federal energy regulation.
By David Roberts .
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Transmission
Biden admin awards $2B in new grid resilience grants
The third round of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law grants target the hurricane-ravaged Southeast U.S. as well as nationwide projects to bolster the grid.
By Jeff St. John .
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Transmission
Infrastructure bill contains less transmission funding than advertised
The White House says the bill contains $65 billion for "power infrastructure," but only $2.5 billion is explicitly for new power lines.By Jeff St. John .
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Climate crisis
Supercomputer forecasts are now helping utilities prepare for climate change and extreme weather
New York Power Authority will use a national lab's cutting-edge forecasts to target its multi-billion dollar investments. Other utilities are following suit.By Jeff St. John .
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Utilities
California's biggest utility plans to bury 10,000 miles of power lines. How much will that cost residents?
Wildfires and other climate disasters are pushing PG&E to put lines underground, but it's a notoriously expensive process.By Elizabeth McCarthy .
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Clean energy
Here's how we can build clean power infrastructure at huge scale and breakneck speed
A new report outlines the radical reforms and paradigm shifts that decarbonization will demand.By Jeff St. John .
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How digitizing the transmission grid can enable the energy mix of the future
EirGrid and Smart Wires team up to build software that could help Ireland reach its ambitious wind energy goals.By Jeff St. John .
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Transmission
Newsletter: Texas outages made transmission upgrades look cheap
Can framing grid investment as a way to prevent disasters convince more people to support it?By Julian Spector .
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Transmission
New transmission can prevent power outages during extreme weather — and save tons of money
Transmission could have paid for itself in savings during big Texas blackout, a new report finds. But capturing that value is tricky.By Jeff St. John .
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Transmission
Newsletter: The rooftop solar vs. transmission showdown that wasn't
Reports of a clean energy schism are generating a lot of solidarity.By Julian Spector .
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Utilities
Newsletter: A Southern energy plan that's not what it SEEMs
Two camps square off over the future of the Southern grid. Plus, a leading solar developer finds a European buyer.By Julian Spector .
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