PJM utilities have increased their spending on transmission in recent years but more so on low-voltage projects that don’t advance large-scale grid decarbonization.
More wind energy and interregional transmission could have mitigated the impacts of rolling blackouts experienced during Winter Storm Elliott.
A new RMI analysis reveals an opportunity for Southern Company to save its customers money and chart a faster path toward its climate targets by making changes to how it operates its coal fleet.
When utilities integrate the Inflation Reduction Act into their planning, the future looks a lot brighter.
How reimagining resource planning can help regulators avoid breaking the camel’s back.
Utilities and regulators have an opportunity to reimagine resource planning to ensure that it remains trusted, comprehensive, and aligned.
How state utility regulators can help relieve hardship due to high energy prices.
If utilities modernize the way they select the resources they run each day, they can save carbon and reduce energy prices.
The US electric grid is fragmented into independent grids and transmission planning regions, which poses a threat to reliability, especially during increasingly frequent extreme weather events. To begin to address this issue, a recent FERC…