The Trump administration announced energy, technology and resource deals worth $56 billion stemming from an Asia-Pacific energy summit. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/is5s50YvEyq#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

SPP will launch its RTO Expansion (RTOE) April 1. This expands SPP’s RTO into the Western Interconnection, making it the first RTO to operate organized wholesale markets across Eastern/Western interconnections. Learn about how to prep www.yesenergy.com/blog/prepari... 🔌💡

See the highlights from key sessions at our biggest user conference yet in a letter from CEO Michael McNair. hubs.ly/Q046-MLY0 🔌💡

Webinar: An overview of SPP RTOE and what that means for market participants in SPP. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.yesenergy.com/spp-rto-laun...

This is a really good explainer (along with a product pitch) for how hybrid systems work in the market. 🔌💡

New York energy storage and solar trade groups are seeking an immediate end to what they say is an effective freeze on interconnection of distributed storage facilities by the state’s largest investor-owned utility. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/clbX50YsGcC#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

Washington’s attorney general and a coalition of public interest organizations have filed separate lawsuits to overturn the U.S. Department of Energy’s order. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/l7yj50YpBfe#energyskyWriter: Robert Mullin

@mariarobinson.bsky.social whatever became of the National Transmission Planning Study? www.rtoinsider.com/88631-doe-fu...

Excellent panel: SPP's Lanny Nickell and CAISO's Eliott Mainzer polite but competitive as you would expect. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/127044-top-c... #empower26 @rtoinsider.bsky.social @yes-energy.bsky.social

Confused by the real-time price spike in PJM on Sun. night? With Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station down for maintenance, our Live Power sensors saw a sudden 1.1 GW loss of gen. at South Field Energy minutes before real-time LMPs spiked to ^$3000/MWh. Learn more www.yesenergy.com/products/liv... 🔌💡

Packed house, beautiful venue, fantastic presentations. EMPOWER26 in Boulder last week. @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/126892-empow... @jessedjenkins.com

📈On Feb. 26, MISO real-time prices hit the $10,000 cap during the evening ramp. The data shows multiple stressors lining up fast: wind underperformance & a 600+ MW unit trip tightening supply during a key ramp window. Learn about getting power market data fast www.yesenergy.com/products/pow...

Pardon the interruption with some basketball. This guy. Maybe the next Damian Lillard? From Oakland, No. 0 on his uniform: 6'-3" guard Mikey Lewis made seven 3-pointers and scored 31 points to help Saint Mary's beat Gonzaga. #dametime www.espn.com/mens-college...

🔥Day 2 of #EMPOWER26 is off to a great start with Lanny Nickell & Elliot Mainzer exploring the western markets' evolution, a discussion of ERCOT changes, and a look at evolving natural gas dynamics. Couldn't make EMPOWER? See if we're coming to an event near you www.yesenergy.com/events 🔌💡

Energy nerds: This was so good. Eliott Mainzer and Lanny Nickell in a Q&A with Robert Mullin of @rtoinsider.bsky.social @yes-energy.bsky.social at #empower26 in Boulder this morning. 🔌💡

Louisiana utility players described their pull-out-all-the-stops, gas-propelled campaign to attract data centers. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/nbL750YmfFh#energyskyWriter: Amanda Durish Cook

Study: keeping coal plant open, $80 million/year. 🔌💡

Despite the hoopla, the data shows a continued optimism for renewable energy development and a continued lag for fossil-fired generation. 🔌💡

Trump admin aruges purely political motives are legitimate justification (!) for blue state cancellations of project funding that red states continue to get. $7.6 billion. 🔌💡

Interesting they consider natural gas to be renewable.🤷‍♂️ 🔌💡

MISO was one step away from load shedding (aka forced blackouts) at the height of the January storm. Thermal outages were an issue. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/126100-miso-...

📈Stay ahead of fast-moving energy markets. Get concise updates, key trends, and market insights delivered directly to your inbox. 👉 Download your copy of the @rtoinsider.bsky.social February Energy Briefing (one-time download): info.yesenergy.com/energy-brief... 🔌💡

The utility affordability crisis playing out across the country is crystallized in Northern Indiana, where some ratepayers have bills higher than their mortgage payments. 🔌💡

More than 60 GW of generation is a step closer to connecting to Bonneville Power Administration’s transmission system, following the release of Phase 1 of BPA’s interconnection cluster study. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/eEPx50YcLU8#energyskyWriter: Elaine Goodman

NY Democrats introduce a bill calling for a 3-year moratorium on the siting and permitting of new data centers. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/125214-data-...

ISO-NE has said Revolution will be important to reducing reliability risks and NYISO has said Sunrise will help address the capacity shortfall identified in downstate zones. 🔌💡

The Trump administration has been pushing natural gas as a means to meet winter reliability, especially in the Northeast where pipeline constraints require generators to burn oil during cold snaps. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/125216-doe-t...

Democrats in the New York Legislature have introduced a bill that would institute a three-year moratorium on the citing and permitting of new data centers statewide. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/125214-data-...

Once again, enviros: “The federal government has manufactured a fake emergency to revive a coal plant that was literally broken at the time DOE claimed the plant is needed." 🔌💡

These guys really know their stuff.

With Sunrise Wind Ruling, OSW Industry now 5-0 Against Trump Admin. Last Remaining Federal Stop-work Order Against Offshore Wind Set Aside 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/124763-sunri...

It's a clean sweep in federal court, 5-0 for the offshore wind industry vs. Trump administration. Story coming soon at @rtoinsider.bsky.social about today's ruling on Sunrise Wind off New York.

The North American power grid’s resource adequacy outlook is “worsening,” and multiple areas are at high risk of shortfalls. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/124496-nerc-...

The federal loan guarantee had the potential to reduce costs for ratepayers at a time when APS is ramping up resource acquisition. But, you know, renewables...🔌💡

Court scoreboard: OSW industry 4, Trump administration 0. One more ruling to come. 🔌💡

Data centers! The sky is falling! What's that, California? Electric vehicle charging will be bigger than data centers? 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/123981-cec-a...

Writer makes a compelling case, which we’ve heard before.

The PJM capacity market's rising prices and generation shortfalls have placed the RTO at the center of the dialogue around resource adequacy issues stemming from new large loads. 🔌💡

Taking office on Jan. 20, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) immediately signed two sweeping executive orders that sought to control the state’s aggressively rising electricity rates. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/aqpy50Y1wba#energyskyWriter: Hugh Morley

Facing surging electricity demand from data centers and artificial intelligence, NV Energy might soon be struggling to meet Nevada’s renewable portfolio standard. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/Xykv50XZFYw#energyskyWriter: Elaine Goodman

📺 On-Demand Webinar: Energy markets are experiencing seismic shifts—from policy changes to evolving grid dynamics. Led by the editor-in-chief of @rtoinsider.bsky.social this overview dives into the future of FERC, expansion of western markets, and renewables. 🚀 info.yesenergy.com/seismic-shif... 🔌💡

The White House and state governors hope this move shores up reliability while meeting huge new demand from data centers. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/123597-white...

DOE critics say keeping coal plants open under Section 202(c) misinterprets the law, which is intended to address only “real” emergencies. 🔌💡

Offshore wind rulings this week: Industry 3, Trump 0. Virginia Project Wins Injunction, Can Restart Construction 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/123609-domin...

🎇As we step into 2026, get the latest analyses of the trends and events poised to shape the year in the 54-page special issue of @rtoinsider.bsky.social. If you participate in any power market, you'll want the latest on storage, renewables, data centers & more.  www.yesenergy.com/rto-insider-... 🔌💡

Judge Allows Construction to Resume on Empire Wind. Ruling is 2nd Win for U.S. Offshore Wind Sector as it Fights Blanket Stop-work Order. 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/123416-judge...

Quite popular with our readers: This plan would allow large customers like data centers to set up their own private power grids that are exempt from economic regulation. (Free registration required.) 🔌💡 www.rtoinsider.com/123103-gop-s...

The judge ruled that penalizing states Trump did not carry in the 2024 election violates the Constitution. To paraphrase: vindictive, said plaintiffs. Yeah, so what? replied defendants. 🔌💡

Democrats used a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy hearing on bills to shore up the electricity sector’s physical and cyber security. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/ot5C50XWw14#energyskyWriter: James Downing

The assertion is that data center developers and other large loads can support expensive generation like nuclear, or renewables, without any chance of spreading costs to others. 🔌💡