The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has extended the compliance deadline for Order No. 2023, a final rule that reforms the Commission’s standard generator interconnection procedures and agreements.

President Biden recently asked Congress to provide an additional $1.6 billion for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program as part of a $56 billion domestic supplemental spending request.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Oct. 27 announced it has finalized four new Wind Energy Areas in the Gulf of Mexico.

The U.S. Department of Energy has released a draft roadmap to address interconnection challenges on the transmission grid and is seeking feedback before releasing a final version.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently accepted a proposal from ISO New England that will allow energy storage facilities to be planned and operated as transmission-only assets to address system needs identified in a regional system planning process.

Utilities need to align their reliability planning efforts with those of the Western Region Adequacy Program’s if they want to achieve the program’s goals of achieving reliability with a smaller portfolio through regional load and resource diversity, economies of scale, and reduced planning uncertainty, according to a new report.