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Western states consider forming electric utility, ousting PacifiCorp

4 days ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeUtah, Wyoming, and Idaho are making preliminary moves that could split up investor-owned PacifiCorp, based in Portland, Ore., and owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. PacifiCorp has two operating subsidiaries, Pacific Power, located in Portland, serving Oregon, northern California, and southeastern Washington, and Rocky Mountain Power, located in Salt Lake City. Rocky Mountain Power serves Utah, Wyoming, and southeastern Idaho.
What Energy Impacts We Can Expect This Hurricane Season

5 days ago | energycentral.com | Emily Newton

Extreme weather can be unpredictable and unrelenting. Energy workforces and homeowners must stay vigilant because the upcoming hurricane season could have some of the greatest energy impacts on society. Here are the best ways to stay resilient based on forecasts. What Energy Professionals Should Anticipate This Hurricane SeasonThe 2024 Atlantic and Eastern Pacific hurricane season could be indicative of what to expect in 2025.
How the Trump EPA’s discarded ‘gold bars’ turned to fool’s gold

6 days ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe Trump administration’s shoot from the hip approach to governance has suffered more foot wounds at the hands of the U.S. courts. A federal district court judge in Washington last week (Apr. 15) reversed EPA’s order to freeze $27 billion in funds allocated last year under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to small non-profit groups working on energy efficiency and clean energy products.
Does Trump’s “zero based regulatory budgeting” make any sense?

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeA Britishism – “gobsmacked” – characterizes much of the reaction to President Trump’s April 9 executive order that attempts to impose supermarket pull-dates on energy regulations. It is titled the “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy” order. “Unlawful and destructive,” says Clint Vince, the esteemed head of the energy practice at the D.C. law firm Dentons.
USEA Virtual Press Briefing: New Rules, Old Trajectories

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Llewellyn King

Video recording of the session at the bottom of this post, along with open Q&A discussion from the session taking place actively on the Energy Central Community:The tumult produced by President Trump’s global tariffs has added a new urgency to the United States Energy Association’s next virtual press briefing.
Utility Industry Stories We're Tracking - April 16, 2025

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Matt Chester

Skip to content Energy Central Energy Central is an online community for global power professionals searching for information, products and services related to the energy industry.
Data center siting circus continues

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week (Apr. 19) refused to reverse a November decision killing a plan for an Amazon data center to snuggle up next to Talen Energy’s 2500-MW Susquehanna nuclear plant. The Pennsylvania data center would have gobbled up 480-MW of the plant’s capacity. The original proposal came in the form of a request by the PJM Interconnection to alter its interconnection policy to accommodate the co-location of the data center and the generating plant.
First section of the hydrogen core network in Eastern Germany

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Charley Rattan

Apr 16, 2025 1:23 pm GMT3 views With the initial charging of the pipeline with gas, several milestones have been passed: On the one hand, work on a further value-added stage of the Energy Park has been concluded and the pipeline is now ready to transport hydrogen. On the other, with this pipeline section, ONTRAS has completed the first section of the hydrogen core network in Eastern Germany and hence also the initial section of the ONTRAS H2 start-up network.
European TSOs: ‘Energy Independence Must Begin at Sea’

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Charley Rattan

image credit: Tennet TSOs Apr 16, 2025 8:05 am GMT2 views the TSOs presented the findings of a pilot study, which show that a regional approach to offshore grid development in the Northern Seas can offer both economic and environmental benefits for Europeans. The report comes with a grid map that outlines promising cross-border projects.
Grid | Joint Planning for the North Sea

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Charley Rattan

image credit: Tennet TSOs Apr 16, 2025 8:12 am GMT2 views Access Publication Charley Rattan The Energy Central Power Industry Network® is based on one core idea - power industry professionals helping each other and advancing the industry by sharing and learning from each other. If you have an experience or insight to share or have learned something from a conference or seminar, your peers and colleagues on Energy Central want to hear about it.