Vistra on Dec. 17 announced that it is amending the retirement schedule of its 1,185-megawatt (MW) Baldwin Power Plant in Baldwin, Illinois. The company now intends to run the coal-fired plant through 2027 instead of retiring in 2025, as previously announced, while still meeting federal Environmental Protection Agency retirement and pond closure obligations.  

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation on Dec. 31 said it was monitoring the extreme cold weather events forecast ​across much of North America in January.

The Kansas City Board of Public Utilities has named Jeremy Ash its new General Manager, effective January 1, 2025.

Talen Energy on Dec. 23 said it intends to pursue appellate remedies after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said that it would not immediately address a Talen Energy request for rehearing of a Commission order that rejected an amended Interconnection Service Agreement among PJM, Susquehanna Nuclear LLC and PPL Electric Utilities tied to a data center in Pennsylvania.

The Court of Appeal of the State of California, Second Appellate District, Division Five, has affirmed the Superior Court of Los Angeles County's judgment in favor of the City of Glendale concluding that the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Grayson Power Plant Repowering Project met the California Environmental Quality Act’s requirements to accurately describe the project scope and physical characteristics.

Relieving future transmission bottlenecks between northern and southern New England and accommodating more clean energy resources in Maine are the two main objectives of the New England States Committee on Electricity’s (NESCOE) proposal for a first-of-its-kind regional solicitation under the region’s new longer-term transmission planning (LTTP) process.