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The deal keeps intact spending in Biden’s landmark climate bill, but it expedites a natural gas pipeline backed by Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.). WP BY TIMOTHY PUKO, UPDATED MAY 29, EDT|PUBLISHED MAY 29, 2023 AT 6:07 P.M. EDT A long-disputed Appalachian natural gas pipeline could be on a fast track to completion as part of the new debt ceiling deal.

Comment on this storyCommentThe long-controversial Appalachian natural gas pipeline could be completed quickly as part of a new debt ceiling

The deal does little for the clean energy transition, and expedites a natural gas pipeline. But it keeps intact spending in Biden’s climate bill -- an early target for the GOP.

Utility industry news and analysis for energy professionals.

Forecasters expect residential power costs to continue rising this summer even as other energy prices drop.

Proposed clean energy projects would produce more electricity than the U.S. currently has—but many fail waiting to be connected to a grid lacking capacity.

Utility ownership of EV charging stations is a losing situation for taxpayers and EV drivers alike.

A report prepared for the South Carolina state legislature and released last week determined that a range of electric market and transmission reforms — including creating a new independent organization to run the electric grid or joining an existing one — would bring  “substantial benefits” for customers, potentially as much as $362 million a year.

DOE wants to accelerate transmission projects under development by designating their proposed routes as National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors.

South Carolinians could benefit from electric market and transmission reforms, but big utilities have kept the changes at bay.