Regular readers know that Halcyon does not shy away from the energy sector alphabet soup. We’ve got another one for you: FERC’s proposed ANOPR in docket RM26-4-000, Interconnection of Large Loads to the Interstate Transmission System. For those not so deeply in the soup: that’s the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s proposed Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, meant to speed up and otherwise ease the interconnection of significant new sources of electricity demand in the US grid -...
Tomorrow, millions of people in the US will skip their Thursday workaday routines in favor of lounging at home, watching TV, and, above all else, eating. People eat every day, of course, but Thanksgiving also means cooking, and cooking at home, and even more specifically, roasting something very large, at high heat, in an oven, for hours. That energy, or more specifically, that electricity, comes mainly from the grid.
Our very own Christopher Schenker joins the panel on December 2 at 12 PM ET for the Environmental Law Institute’s webinar on DOE’s new large-load interconnection directive. If you work in interconnections, large loads, or utility policy, this is a can’t-miss discussion.
Halcyon has just released its inaugural US utility rate case cost of capital tracker.
There is a fundamental challenge at the heart of the power utility social contract: to provide power to all while ensuring that no group of ratepayers is unfairly burdened with costs. This challenge is particularly acute today, as new large load consumers, such as data centers, can change the shape of a grid (and its rates) in just a matter of months.
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