Committee Hearings – Week of 2-1-26 – HR 7148 rule hearing – FERC oversight – Space Geek markup – Water cybersecurity – https://tinyurl.com/3ytf4r2n Subscription required #Hearings #Cybersecurity #FERC #SpaceGeek
#ferc
Manually uploaded a couple of years of processed FERC EQR data if anybody would like to play with it. Working on the automated builds now. There are 4 directories, one for each EQR table under this path:
s3://pudl.catalyst.coop/ferceqr/
Each directory contains one Parquet file per quarter of data.
#Electricity #Energy #OpenData #FERC #Markets #ClimateChange
#Hydropower Developer No-Show Leaves #Navajos with More Questions than Answers
Chapter officials table hydropower resolution, ask for more community info sessions as FERC seeks to end a policy blocking permits on Tribal land absent Tribal support
by #HerbYazzie, Coal-Lease Area Resident; #AdrianHerder, #TóNizhóníÁní; #TaylorMcKinnon, #CenterForBiologicalDiversity
via #CensoredNews, Nov. 21, 2025
Excerpts: #KayentaAZ— "On a cloudy, rainy Wednesday afternoon, the Kayenta Chapter held its monthly meeting where a resolution by #NatureAndPeopleFirst was first on the agenda. Impacted community members from the coal-lease area on Black Mesa (#DziłYíjiin) filled the chapter house to voice concern about the resolution. But before discussions could begin, Chapter officials tabled the resolution because the developers didn’t show up.
"Nature and People First (#NPF) are developers who are pushing #PumpedStorageHydropower (#PSH) on the #NavajoNation, particularly in the #BlackMesa region. Pumped storage pumps water uphill during low electricity prices and then releases it back downhill through generators when electricity prices are high, producing electricity and revenue. Pumped storage #hydropower, which requires huge amounts of water, is different than hydrogen, which other developers wanted piped across the Nation."
[...]
"#TóNizhóníÁní (#TNA) e-filed comments objecting to #FERC’s proposed policy reversal along with the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, #AmericanRivers and more than a dozen #tribes across the US. 'For decades, #CoalMining on #BlackMesa has not only extracted coal but also billions of gallons of #groundwater to support the #mining operation,' wrote #AdrianHerder with Tó Nizhóní Ání. 'Energy projects that propose to use large amounts of water for #EnergyProduction should be vetted diligently.' Water access and reliability is crucial for our communities on Black Mesa and the southwest region of the United States.
"Tribal communities understand the resources and impacts by industry. Any project that proposes to use groundwater when it has been heavily impacted and in a state of recovery should not be considered for continued industry use."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/11/hydropower-developer-no-show-leaves.html
#WaterIsLife #Diné #Dineteh #Greenwashing #PeabodyCoal #ReaderSupportedNews
Review – FERC Sends Sunset Provisions Direct Final Rule to OMB – Would implement sunset rule provisions of §4 of EO 14270 – Short version - https://tinyurl.com/5e8kkx4v #Regulation #FERC
FERC Sends Sunset Provisions Direct Final Rule to OMB – Would implement sunset rule provisions of §4 of EO 14270 – https://tinyurl.com/4ex2z2mh Subscription required #Regulations #FERC
“Abundance” Lobby Uses Trendy Words to Hide Same Old Attacks on the Environment
The “abundance” climate agenda is little more than a progressive repackaging of trickle-down, anti-regulatory economics.
FERC just closed RM20-12-000 - the inquiry into CIP standards + cyber gaps.
Is this confidence in the industry r a shift toward deregulation?
We break it down: INSM, virtualization, low-impact assets & what’s next.
🔗 https://ampyxcyber.com/blog/ferc-quietly-closes-the-books-on-rm20-12-000
🚨 FERC approves CIP-015-1: Internal Network Security Monitoring is now a NERC CIP requirement—and more is coming.
Our latest post breaks it down and explains what utilities should be doing now.
FERC just closed RM20-12-000 - the inquiry into CIP standards + cyber gaps.
Is this confidence in the industry r a shift toward deregulation?
We break it down: INSM, virtualization, low-impact assets & what’s next.
🔗 https://ampyxcyber.com/blog/ferc-quietly-closes-the-books-on-rm20-12-000
🚨 FERC approves CIP-015-1: Internal Network Security Monitoring is now a NERC CIP requirement—and more is coming.
Our latest post breaks it down and explains what utilities should be doing now.
Amazon’s $20B data center project plugs directly into a nuclear plant — skipping the grid. Fed regulators are watching.Read more: zurl.co/0o8KG #Amazon #DataCenters #AI #FERC #EnergyPolicy
wtf
"...Covered Agencies shall issue a sunset rule, effective not later than September 30, 2025, that inserts a Conditional Sunset Date into each of their Covered Regulations."
Until shortly ago this spillway entrance was overseen for failure analysis by #FERC experts. The operators do not have this expertise, which was shared by many quite efficiently.
The structure protects a 61m earth fill damn that has zero tolerance for over-topping.
If the dam fails, it will put a community of ~3,OOO under as much of 10m of water.
Losing this capacity is not a savings. There was already efficiency and anyway the prime purpose of government is effective service not efficiency.
As I heard it today during an engineer-led tour in connection with emergency warning systems improvements, we're no longer capable of modeling complex flow effects through the relief systems for the 200' earth fill dam serviced by this "glory hole" spillway-- due to gratuitous destruction at #FERC.
Which comes while dam spillways etc. are being reassessed and revised to account for 50 years of better statistics and projection of #ClimateChange effects.
"Dismissing opposition from renewable energy developers, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday approved the PJM Interconnection’s proposal for a fast-track interconnection review for shovel-ready generation projects.
#FERC also approved changes to #PJM’s rules for Surplus Interconnection Service, or #SIS, that could help get additional capacity online."
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-pjm-fast-track-surplus-interconnection-queue/739908/
#Susquehanna Nuclear Challenges #FERC Ruling Blocking Power Boost for #AWS #DataCenter
NERC, overseen by FERC, warns soaring US electricity demand from data centers powering AI could strain US & Canadian grids, risking blackouts. ⚡️ #EnergyCrisis #AI #DataCenters #ElectricityDemand #Blackouts #GridSecurity #NERC #FERC #TechImpact #RenewableEnergy
US regulator Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (#FERC) blocked #Amazon's bid to access more power from the Susquehanna #nuclear plant for its #Pennsylvania #datacenter, citing grid reliability and consumer cost concerns.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4970068-us-regulator-rejects-bid-to-boost-nuclear-power-to-amazon-data-center/
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#FERC approved the transaction on the back of a previously granted blanket authorization to BlackRock that allows the asset manager to acquire up to 20% of voting securities of certain types of #UtilityCompanies. BlackRock first received the authorization in 2010, and the Commission declined to reconsider it as part of the transaction.
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