Eversource Energy executives hope to reach a settlement with consumer advocates regarding the prospective return on equity for New England transmission owners. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/gByP50YXg2w#energyskyWriter: Jon Lamson

Consumer advocates and industry groups want more influence in the governance structure of the resource adequacy program being developed for participants in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/FBfN50YXg2I#energyskyWriter: Henrik Nilsson

MISO again said summertime could produce a slim chance for an over-130-GW demand peak in July but said it has enough buffer to avoid power outages. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/nH2e50YWnwu#energyskyWriter: Amanda Durish Cook

By nature, distributed solar is less spectacular, high profile and controversial than the offshore wind farms, nuclear reactors and fossil power plants that define the power industry’s popular narratives. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: https://ow

American Electric Power has fired a warning shot across the bows of the nation’s grid operators. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/oIEq50YWkHv#energyskyWriter: Tom Kleckner

Solar and wind, when paired with storage, can provide “firm” power at prices competitive with fossil generation. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/I8mT50YVSBc#energyskyWriter: James Downing

Any conversation about the grid these days inevitably turns to the enormous pressure that huge new data center loads are putting on it. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/ogw350YVSBC#energyskyWriter: Peter Kelly-Detwiler

The wind power industry is increasingly anxious about delays in federal reviews of U.S. onshore wind plans. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/lLo150YVmP6#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

American Electric Power has fired a warning shot across the bows of the nation’s grid operators. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/w4pY50YVmOs#energyskyWriter: Tom Kleckner

NERC issued a Level 3 alert detailing essential actions to address the reliability impacts of data centers and other computational large loads. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/zCyS50YUPrn#energyskyWriter: Holden Mann

Interconnecting customers that can use the same amount of power as a city makes the already difficult job of allocating transmission costs even more difficult. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/m40R50YUPsy#energyskyWriter: James Downing

Portland General Electric’s data center customers could see a 26% rate increase as the utility anticipates that the Oregon Public Utility Commission will approve its proposed large load tariff shortly. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/YMe450YUkIL#energyskyWriter: Henrik Nilsson

A Midwestern Governors Association webinar on affordability touched on the anger ratepayers are expressing over ever-increasing energy bills. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/VqGk50YUkJ2#energyskyWriter: Amanda Durish Cook

CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market is open for business. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/vgHW50YTEeG#energyskyWriter: David Krause

NextEra Energy Resources has entered an agreement with Salt River Project to develop 3 GW of solar generation for the Arizona utility by the end of 2034. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/PFTE50YT34W#energyskyWriter: Elaine Goodman

PJM has named Board of Managers Chair David Mills to serve as president and CEO after he served as the chief executive on an interim basis for about four months. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/vpzR50YTwoA#energyskyWriter: Devin Leith-Yessian

The New England transmission owners have asked FERC to increase their base return on equity from 9.57% to 11.39%, a proposal that already has drawn strong opposition from consumer groups. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/Jbbj50YT34a#energyskyWriter: Jon Lamson

New York’s Department of Public Service continues to examine the ramifications of allowing utilities to own renewable power generation. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/MWvM50YS7h9#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

More than 800 projects have applied for interconnection with PJM in queue Cycle 1. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/6LXp50YSfFx#energyskyWriter: Devin Leith-Yessian

New Jersey is seeking to jump-start the development of new storage projects and boost residential and farm-based solar as part of the state’s effort to speedily bring more generation online. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/uBRC50YRwMk#energyskyWriter: Hugh Morley

MISO summer capacity prices remained at a premium after the RTO’s 2026/27 auction cleared at roughly $400/MW-day across the footprint, but still about $200 below 2025. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/Gx6i50YRwKg#energyskyWriter: Amanda Durish Cook

Thirty advanced nuclear reactors are being developed for possible use in 36 projects nationwide, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/yz0750YQStA#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

Two more U.S. offshore wind concepts will not generate a watt, as the developers have agreed to cancel their leases at the behest of the Trump administration. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/lygo50YQSs9#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

CAISO is about to mark a long-awaited milestone when its Extended Day-Ahead Market goes live with PacifiCorp as the first participant. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/ZpOn50YQ6MU#energyskyWriter: Robert Mullin

The decline in U.S. clean technology manufacturing investments accelerated in the first quarter of 2026, a new tally indicates. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/IiY650YQ6Nc#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

Bringing down the curtain on its once-vigorous offshore wind program, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on April 22 terminated the State Agreement Approach (SAA) deal with PJM. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/EMOq50YOQnc#energyskyWriter: Hugh Morley

NERC has issued an update to its 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment addressing complaints that the assessment overstated the risk label for MISO. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/8y9c50YOQmZ#energyskyWriter: Holden Mann

GE Vernova reported another big quarter of gas turbine orders but said some customers are pushing back delivery because of bottlenecks in other parts of the procurement process. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/BgsO50YOhZV#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced that Department of Environmental Protection struck a deal with the owner of the Keystone and Conemaugh coal-fired power plants to keep them operating. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/X7gy50YOhZ6#energyskyWriter: James Downing

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against actions by the Department of the Interior that effectively banned permitting of new solar and wind projects. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/yz4050YNMpS#energyskyWriter: James Downing

Historic flooding in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula has put a spotlight on a dam ownership dispute and renewed debate over out-of-state, absentee owners controlling infrastructure. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/bvxt50YNMrS#energyskyWriter: Amanda Durish Cook

Ten states and former FERC Chair Mark Christie have asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court finding they say risks usurping state authority over transmission siting. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/q5z050YNeuW#energyskyWriter: James Downing

FERC says it needs more time to consider its jurisdiction around large load interconnections, in part because it’s been inundated with 3,500 pages of comments. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/iCMS50YNbrb#energyskyWriter: Ken Sands

FERC says it needs more time to consider its jurisdiction around large load interconnections, in part because it’s been inundated with 3,500 pages of comments. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/iCMS50YNbrb#energyskyWriter: Ken Sands

ISO-NE and stakeholders had a heavy workload throughout a three-day meeting of the NEPOOL Markets Committee, which included discussion on the RTO’s Capacity Auction Reforms (CAR) project. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/g7Wk50YMlsc#energyskyWriter: Jon Lamson

If one thread connects the major issues facing the power industry — load growth, supply chain issues, extreme weather and a transitioning generation fleet — it is uncertainty. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/WmJf50YMls3#energyskyWriter: James Downing

New York likely will be splitting atoms and burning methane to power its grid for decades to come, and likely in greater quantity than it is today. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/cX2c50YKKG3#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

Prior to the U.S. Department of Energy’s March extension of emergency orders for the F.B. Culley Generating Station, owner CenterPoint Energy asked the department not to re-up the stay-open mandate. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/oJFf50YKKAQ#energyskyWriter: Amanda Durish Coo

Another mass cancellation is potentially in the works for New York’s contracted renewable energy pipeline. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/CLEP50YK9Ju#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

In “one of the largest and most brazen frauds in the history” of FERC, American Efficient has been ordered to pay a civil penalty of $722 million and disgorgement of unjust profits totaling about $410 million. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/utyr50YKaqq#energyskyWriter: Ken Sands

In “one of the largest and most brazen frauds in the history” of FERC, American Efficient has been ordered to pay a civil penalty of $722 million and disgorgement of unjust profits totaling about $410 million. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/utyr50YKaqq#energyskyWriter: Ken Sands

The Bonneville Power Administration said it continues to face steep energy deficits under “firm” water conditions over the next 10 years. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/iqGI50YJe25#energyskyWriter: Robert Mullin

Each year brings new progress and challenges for those planning, building, regulating and running New York’s grid. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/aY7a50YJe3y#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

Vineyard Wind is asking a court to block its turbine manufacturer from walking away from a nearly complete offshore wind project as the two squabble over hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/Agml50YIxy8#energyskyWriter: John Cropley

PJM is to present its initial design for a reliability backstop procurement (RBP) intended to award multiyear capacity commitments for resources able to enter service within five years to serve large loads. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/ROxI50YIxxN#energyskyWriter: Devin Leith-Yessian

Some Americans still think of “energy prices” as a single rising tide. When oil prices top $100/barrel, it feels like everything else follows: heating, groceries and electricity. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/le8150YHNZ3#energyskyWriter: Dej Knuckey

As the astonishing and unanticipated tsunami of AI-driven data centers washes across the electric utility landscape, the conversation continues to evolve. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/1Ux750YHNYV#energyskyWriter: Peter Kelly-Detwiler

FERC fined Terra-Gen nearly $5 million for strategically using its battery storage resources to repeatedly manipulate CAISO’s market for nearly two years. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/RgpP50YGR94#energyskyWriter: David Krause

A FERC proceeding seeking approval to purchase an old oil-fired power plant in southern Maryland has drawn multiple protests because its buyer wants to co-locate a data center. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/WTfG50YGR87#energyskyWriter: James Downing

New York has far exceeded the interim target on its energy storage road map — 1.5 GW of capacity by the end of 2025 — but has more work ahead as it pursues 6 GW by 2030. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/Uwey50YGieP#energyskyWriter: John Cropley