As if to welcome the nation’s utility regulators to Minneapolis for the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners (NARUC) summer meeting next week, MISO declared an Energy Emergency Alert Level 2 on Wednesday, July 15th, citing forced generation outages, above-normal temperatures, and higher-than-forecasted load. Interestingly, MISO did not mention that its wind resources, which constitute 33,687 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity and […]

In President Donald Trump’s second term in office, the administration has sought to boost the coal industry’s fortunes by reducing regulatory and permitting hurdles, opening millions of acres for coal leasing, issuing 202(c) Emergency Orders to temporarily keep several coal plants from closing, and approving Department of Energy (DOE) funds for upgrades, extensions, and even new coal builds […]