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State, federal efforts too late to save Exelon's Illinois nuclear plants, CEO Crane says, Utility Dive  Aug. 6, 2021  Iulia Gheorghiu Dive Brief: Exelon Generation has two Illinois nuclear plants slated for shutdown and decommissioning this fall, despite recent federal proposals for both a tax credit and a fund for existing nuclear plants, and rising power…

Bipartisan $1 trillion Senate infrastructure bill focuses on nuclear, carbon capture, transmission, Utility Dive  Aug. 3, 2021 Bipartisan $1 trillion Senate infrastructure bill focuses on nuclear, carbon capture, transmission, Utility Dive  Aug. 3, 2021 Catherine Morehouse A bipartisan group of senators on Sunday unveiled its nearly $1 trillion infrastructure bill, formalized into text following a…

FirstEnergy agrees to pay $230M fine for bribing Ohio officials to bail out two nuclear plants, Utility Dive, Iulia Gheorghiu   July 23, 2021   Dive Brief: FirstEnergy Corporation announced on Thursday a settlement agreement to pay a $230 million penalty for bribing Ohio officials to  ensure the passage of a ratepayer-funded bailout for older generation assets, including two nuclear plants. The utility cooperated with federal investigators to disclose paying millions through dark money...

Everyone Involved with Renewable Energy is Looking at FERC for Reforms June 16, 2021 Last month UCS posted a blog about the distortions in transmission planning with differing assumptions about the future used in different planning processes (or two sets of books, as we might say, if this were a business trying to avoid accountability for its taxes). Clearly, the folks in charge of the power system have some real firefighting on their hands. Now let’s look at the reforms, starting with the ap...

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Published June 3, 2021 Ron Jenkins via Getty Images The following is a contributed article by Dan Esposito, senior policy analyst at Energy Innovation, and Eric Gimon, senior fellow at Energy Innovation. Editors Note: This is the second of a three-part op-ed series in Utility Dive based on Energy Innovations research examining 1) what drove the extended Texas outages, 2) the degree to which energy markets failed and 3) how different ent...

Opinion The Texas Big Freeze: How a changing climate pushed the states power grid to the brink Published June 2, 2021 Ron Jenkins via Getty Images The following is a contributed article by Dan Esposito, senior policy analyst at Energy Innovation, and Eric Gimon, senior fellow at Energy Innovation. Editors Note: This is the first of a three-part op-ed series in Utility Dive based on Energy Innovations research ...

John Moore via Getty Images New data shows Xcel Energy Colorado’s 2016-2017 all-source competitive solicitation (ASCS) secured even lower costs than power sector leaders previously thought, adding momentum to interest in this emerging approach to procurement. Xcel’s ASCS returned a $0.017/kWh bid for wind, a $0.023/kWh bid for solar, and a $0.03/kWh bid for solar-plus-storage, according to a February 2021 Xcel presentation to Michigan regulato...