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NERC: Winter Grid Reliability at Risk Amid Soaring Demand, Fuel Supply Gaps

Sonal Patel — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:02:46 +0000

In its recently released Winter Reliability Assessment, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) found that while resources are adequate for normal winter peak demand, large swaths of North America face an elevated risk of electricity shortfalls during prolonged, wide-area cold snaps. Noting that four severe Arctic storms have swept across much of the continent since […]

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Texas Issues First Performance-Based Grant Under Energy Fund for LCRA’s New 188-MW RICE Peaker

Sonal Patel — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:44:52 +0000

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) has executed its first agreement under the Texas Energy Fund (TxEF) Completion Bonus Grant (CBG) Program, awarding the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) up to $22.56 million for its 188-MW Timmerman Power Plant Unit 1, a new natural gas–fired plant in Caldwell County, Texas. The agreement marks the operational launch of Texas’s performance-contingent funding mechanism, which is designed to accelerate […]

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EPA Extends Steam-Electric Wastewater Deadlines to 2034, Citing Grid Reliability and Rising Power Demand

Sonal Patel — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:07:05 +0000

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has moved to shift capital planning and permitting timelines for the nation’s remaining coal-fired power units, acting on two measures targeting wastewater discharge under the Clean Water Act, and separately, air-quality visibility programs and the Clean Air Act. On Sept. 29, the EPA issued a proposed rule and companion […]

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Hitachi Energy, Grid United Advance North Plains Connector to Link Eastern and Western Grids

Sonal Patel — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:53:10 +0000

Hitachi Energy and high-voltage interregional infrastructure developer Grid United have launched the next phase of a collaboration to strengthen transmission capacity between three energy markets straddling the Eastern and Western grids in the U.S., formalizing an agreement for the North Plains Connector (NPC), a ±525 kV, 3-GW high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) line spanning roughly 420 miles […]

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Federal Grid Interventions Enter a Second Phase as DOE Extends Emergency Orders

Sonal Patel — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:33:02 +0000

The Trump administration’s unprecedented use of emergency grid authorities entered a second phase in August 2025, as the Department of Energy (DOE) extended three critical reliability orders. The measures signal that this year’s historic string of federal interventions—staked in Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act—are likely to continue beyond the traditional summer peak and […]

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Google, I&M Strike Landmark Deal to Share Clean Capacity and Flex AI Load

Sonal Patel — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 04:26:00 +0000

American Electric Power (AEP) subsidiary Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) has filed a special customer-specific contract with technology giant Google that could create a dual-purpose arrangement to address power capacity constraints in one of the fastest-growing digital infrastructure regions in the U.S. AEP on Aug. 4 announced that the two companies filed a petition to the […]

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Doubling Down on Reliability: Karachi’s Engineered Smart Grid Breakthrough

Sonal Patel — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:17:04 +0000

Faced with soaring demand and limited visibility into upstream grid assets, Karachi-based K-Electric engineered an in-house special protection system that delivers more than 600 MW of secure power imports to

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Creating a Living Asset: The Role of AI-Enhanced Digital Twins in Autonomous Operations

Contributed Content — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:53:52 +0000

The convergence of artificial intelligence and digital twin technology is emerging as a transformative solution, enabling power producers to shift from static control systems to dynamic, self-optimizing

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Domestic Power Burn, Not LNG Exports, Is the Real Culprit Driving Natural Gas Price Volatility

Contributed Content — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:53:38 +0000

From pandemic shut-ins to production booms, arctic blasts to record heatwaves, the U.S. gas market in the 2020s has been volatile. But while many analyses have pointed the finger at increases in liquefied

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DOE’s Fifth Emergency Order—for PJM—Caps Summer of Escalating Grid Risk

Sonal Patel — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:21:30 +0000

The Department of Energy (DOE) has issued its fifth 202(c) emergency order this year, directing PJM Interconnection to override environmental limits and dispatch an oil-fired power generating unit in Maryland strictly as needed to avert possible blackouts in the Baltimore region. The July 28 order, issued under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, authorizes […]

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