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Check out a guide to the formulas behind your monthly power bill.

Check out a guide to the formulas behind your monthly power bill.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") will host its January Open Meeting on Thursday, January 18, 2024.

On October 19, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) proposed changes to the method of collection and data being collected in its Electric Quarterly...

District of Columbia Circuit DC Circuit issued opinion in Solar Energy Industries Association v Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, provides clear path for hybrid solar-battery and wind-battery projects to qualify for benefits under Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act PURPA.

When Gov. Roy Cooper signed House Bill 951 on Oct. 13, 2021, North Carolina became the first state in the Southeast — and one of the first in the country — to authorize significant...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. NorthWestern Reports 2020 Financial Results NorthWestern CorporationFebruary 11, 2021 GMT Company reports GAAP diluted earnings per share of $3.06 for 2020, affirms 2021 earnings guidance and announces a 3.3% increase to the quarterly dividend - to $0.62 per share - payable March 31, 2021 BUTTE, Mont. and SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Feb. 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NorthWestern Corporation d/b/a NorthWestern ...

FERC has issued a final rule, Order No. 874, expanding the eligibility criteria for Qualifying Facilities (QFs) as defined under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to enable certain fuel cell–based electric generation to receive QF status. The final rule amends the definition of useful thermal energy output of a topping-cycle cogenerator in its regulations implementing PURPA by adding a new paragraph to specifically include thermal energy that is used by a fuel cell s...

E-1 – Omitted E-2 – Cybersecurity Incentives (Docket No. RM21-3-000). Agenda item E-2 may be a new docket relating to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on Cybersecurity Incentives. The NOPR proceeding may expand and formalize the concepts outlined in a Commission staff white paper issued on June 18, 2020, which explored certain transmission incentive policy proposals designed to encourage utility spending on protocols that would ostensibly improve security and compliance with critical ...