The Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA)—the state’s ratepayer advocate—on January 21, 2026, urged the PJM Interconnection’s Board to reject a USD1.7 billion power line project proposed by NextEra Energy and Exelon...
Read MoreDuke Energy—one of the largest energy holding companies in the US, providing electricity and natural gas services across multiple states in the Southeast and Midwest—has announced operations of a 50 MW, four-hour battery energy...
Read MoreThe California Independent System Operator (CAISO) is initiating a development process for the Infrastructure Policy Catalog and Roadmap and will host a stakeholder call on January 29, 2026. The process prioritises and sequences...
Read MoreThe New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) transmission network, connecting the US and Canada, has been commissioned. The project, which was started in 2018 by Iberdrola’s US subsidiary Avangrid, has been completed after...
Read MoreOn January 16, 2025, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has granted Dominion Energy a preliminary injunction, allowing construction to resume on its 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project...
Read MoreSunflower Electric Power Corporation—a non-profit, regional wholesale electric generation and transmission utility headquartered in Hays, Kansas—has announced plans to construct a new 345 kV transmission line as part of a...
Read MoreOn January 15, 2026, five Upper Midwest energy companies, led by Xcel Energy – that generates and distributes electricity and gas to customers across eight states, applied to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for a...
Read MoreAccording to a complaint filed on January 14, 2026 by Public Citizen—a consumer watchdog group—at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the latter has been urged to recoup allegedly imprudent costs Public...
Read MoreThe Illinois attorney general’s (AG) office, in its January 12, 2026 filings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), has urged that the latter reject or delay the approval of the proposed transmission service...
Read MoreMaritime Electric—an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortis Inc. and the primary electric utility provider for Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, that operates an integrated system for the generation, transmission, and...
Read MoreCalifornia-based clean energy company, SolarMax Technologies, has entered into engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreements to deploy a combined 400 MW/1 GWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity at...
Read MoreThe 2025 Biennial Transmission Plan, filed by Minnesota’s transmission-owning utilities (TOUs) with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC), has identified 66 high congestion constraints and divided each...
Read MoreThe Ontario government has approved the Independent Electricity System Operator’s (IESO) recommendation to develop a new 500 kV underwater—the first of its kind—electricity transmission line from Bowmanville near the...
Read MoreIllinois’ governor, on January 8, 2026, signed the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act (CRGA), aiming to tackle rising electricity costs through the development of battery storage energy systems (BESS) and virtual power...
Read MoreComEd—an electric delivery company that serves more than 4 million customers in northern Illinois, including Chicago, manages over 90,000 miles (144,841 km) of power lines, and is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation—has...
Read MoreThe Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) on January 6, 2025, selected developers to build two power line projects in Wisconsin – a joint venture (JV) of American Electric Power (AEP) and Berkshire Hathaway Energy...
Read MoreConnecticut and Rhode Island have filed a court motion on January 2, 2026, seeking a preliminary injunction to block the US administration’s suspension of the 704 MW Revolution Wind offshore wind (OSW) project – a 50/50 joint...
Read MoreThe New Orleans-based utility, Entergy, has filed for a major transmission project in west Louisiana currently projected to cost over USD1 billion, 82 per cent of which would be shouldered by ratepayers. According to...
Read MoreThe Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)—whose grid covers 42 million people across 15 US states and the Canadian province of Manitoba—on January 6, 2026, announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft that sets a...
Read MoreThe long-awaited 233-km high-voltage New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) line with 1,200 MW transmission capacity is expected to soon be transmitting hydropower from Québec in Canada, to Maine, as well as to the shared New...
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