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Why you need a subscription to RTO Insider.
A comprehensive, 54-page pdf report on regulatory issues around electricity generation, load growth and transmission. 🔌💡
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January 6, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Why subscribe to @rtoinsider.bsky.social ?
Because you get things like this special edition with the top stories in 2025 in electricity regulation. 🔌💡
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December 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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And at a time when interconnection queues are measured in years, integrating batteries can enable developers to build larger renewable projects than the interconnection point otherwise would allow. 🔌💡
rtoinsider.bsky.social RTO Insider @rtoinsider.bsky.social · 9d
Energy storage is the great enabler of the clean energy revolution, moving electricity in time, much like transmission moves it in space.
#energysky 🔌💡

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Writer: Dej Knuckey
December 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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kensands.bsky.social Ken Sands @kensands.bsky.social · 14d
DOE Orders Two Indiana Coal Plants to Stay Open through Winter. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social
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December 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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NV Energy said it is discussing a potential new resource adequacy program with other participants in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.
#energysky 🔌💡

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Writer: Elaine Goodman
October 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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⚡ERCOT is changing — do you understand recent price trends? Discover:
✅ Why summer 2025 prices stayed flat
✅ What’s behind negative congestion in the south & Panhandle
✅ How West Texas intrazonal congestion is creating LZ_WEST premiums over HB_WEST
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October 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
kleckwrites.bsky.social
No Kings. Conroe, Texas, in ruby-red Montgomery County.
October 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin requested that PJM reopen the nomination process for two open seats on its Board of Managers to consider two candidates recommended by the states.
#energysky 🔌💡

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Writer: Devin Leith-Yessian
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Texas regulators have approved Entergy Texas’ request to build two natural gas-fired generating units in MISO’s portion of the state.
#energysky 🔌💡

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Writer: Tom Kleckner
September 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
kleckwrites.bsky.social
Stop after Alien 2.
alcremie.and.cat teddy ꒰ᐢ. .ᐢ꒱ @alcremie.and.cat · Sep 3
hmmm i need to watch the rest of the alien movies, i’ve only seen the original and alien: romulus
September 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The Texas Public Utility Commission has selected the first four projects under the Texas Energy Fund's Outside #ERCOT program. The grants total more than $240 million, about a quarter of the program's allocated funds. See the full story at @rtoinsider.bsky.social ➡️https://hubs.ly/Q03GfmV90 🔌💡
August 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Just as renewable energy advocates predicted, MISO's claim of a "broad mix" of energy sources in the interconnection queue express lane actually means 74% gas plants. 🔌💡
@yes-energy.bsky.social
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August 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Friday news dump No. 3:
IRS Guidance on Wind and Solar Credits Not as Bad as Feared.
Some renewables companies see their stock prices soar. 🔌💡
@yes-energy.bsky.social
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August 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Surprise: Trump said to nominate Democrat to head FERC.
Rosner, a former Joe Manchin aide, seen as friendly to fossil fuels and locating data centers with nuclear power plants, top Trump priorities. 🔌💡
@yes-energy.bsky.social
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August 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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US Energy Regulations Adding Pressure to Existing Market Barriers. 🔌💡
@yes-energy.bsky.social
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Modeling for Uncertainty During Changing US Energy Regulations
With the OBBBA and other changing US regulations, see how power markets are evolving and why electricity prices could rise in our deep dive analysis.
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August 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
kleckwrites.bsky.social
Excuse his French, but it is Samuel L. Jackson, after all. A great ad for offshore wind.
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30
Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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"PJM Is Flailing, but There’s a Solution," say opinion writers.
"If PJM actually planned to strategically locate dispatchable generation, such as natural gas, it could make some of the renewables projects more viable..." 🔌💡
Agree? Disagree?
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July 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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DOE's orders to keep two power plants open this summer use the Federal Power Act Section 202(c) in new ways and now the courts will determine whether its actions violated the law. 🔌💡
@yes-energy.bsky.social
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July 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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@ferc.gov Chair Mark Christie made some nice comments about @rtoinsider.bsky.social at his last press conference.
youtu.be/QxxD7tZoVpA?... 🔌💡
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FERC Press Conference | July 24, 2025
YouTube video by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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July 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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DOE terminated its $4.9 billion conditional loan commitment for the long-delayed Grain Belt Express project, saying it is “not critical” for the federal government to support the project. 🔌💡
@yes-energy.bsky.social
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July 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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“This study was not a transmission planning study but as we were trying to meet the demand in different scenarios, we realized that it is cheaper to build transmission rather than meet the demand locally with local generation,” SPP said. www.rtoinsider.com/101197-spp-s...
SPP Study: $88B to $263B in Generation Needed by 2050
A study of SPP’s future energy and resource needs has found the grid operator will have to rely on thermal generation for reliability.
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March 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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douglewin.bsky.social
There's a new solar record in ERCOT. A few minutes ago, solar exceeded 25,000 megawatts of production for the first time, equaling 52% of demand. Emission free sources (wind, solar, and nuclear) are producing about 75% of power demand today.
March 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I THOUGHT I knew what targeting and roughing the punter were.
January 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
kleckwrites.bsky.social
From Bantam Communications. Spot on. #energybsky
December 21, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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On Saturday, batteries set a new record in ERCOT, supplying 9% of power on an evening w/ high thermal outages & low wind. Prices spiked to near the max for 5 minutes, 4,300 megawatts of storage surged onto the grid (and demand went down ~2,000 MW) & things went back to normal. (h/t @gridstatus.io
December 17, 2024 at 3:26 AM