Aaron Stemplewicz, Esq.
@aaronstemp.bsky.social
FERC energy lawyer at Earthjustice. Personal account and comments are my own. #EnergySky #RivianSky
In her testimony #FERC Chairwoman Swett said, several times, that a third of consumer bills come from rates overseen by FERC. Has anybody (can anybody) break this down with more granularity? #energysky
RTO Insider@rtoinsider.bsky.social · 6mo agoAll five FERC commissioners faced questions from the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy on how to balance reliability and affordability as demand grows. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/3sfi50Y8zt0 Writer: James Downing
Lots of problems with the #NERC Reliability Report, but this is a doozy “…IBRs provide little or no frequency response capability…” Lots of data showing this is just flat wrong. milligangridsolutions.com/Sources%20of...
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🚨The ban on aggregators of demand response participating in wholesale markets in Minnesota was reversed by the MN Court of Appeals. FERC could step in now and free the rest of MISO and SPP states by lifting the opt out in O719. mncourts.gov/_media/migrati…
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Open Meeting Start Time: 10:02 a.m. Sunshine Notice: www.ferc.gov/media/sunshi... Video Feed: www.ferc.gov/news-events/...
Sunshine Notice | January 2026 Commission Meeting
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This is a big deal for PJM to be admitting what we have long suspected. Power demand forecasts have been badly inflated…tale as old as time… www.eenews.net/articles/pjm...
PJM to ratchet down projected AI power demand for eastern US
An updated analysis from the regional grid operator is expected to provide a reality check on data center growth.
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What is going in Utah such that ALL their coal plants are so badly uneconomic this year?
🚨 Earthjustice, on behalf of NRDC, filed a joint Petition for Review with Sierra Club in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging FERC's approval of SPP's discriminatory capacity accreditation methodology. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
Advocates Take FERC to Court Over Southwest Power Pool’s Pricey Proposal to Favor Fossil Fuels
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Sierra Club and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), represented by Earthjustice, filed a petition at the D.C. Circuit Court to challenge the Federal Energy Regulato...
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ISONE CEO, Gordon van Welie, says the Trump Administration has set the offshore wind industry back……“by over a decade.” www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
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🚨 Pleased to have helped with this GREAT law review article published in the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, which addresses the uneconomic self-commitment of coal powerplants in the electric power markets with a focus on antitrust implications. escholarship.org/uc/item/6329...
An Economic Case Against Uneconomic Coal: Antitrust Concerns in the Deregulated and Competitive Electricity Market
Author(s): Amato, Michael J. | Abstract: This Article addresses uneconomic self-commitment in the electric power market with an eye to the antitrust case against the uneconomic operations of coal-fire...
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🚨Pretty big news out of MISO this morning. A continuing LOLE error that has existed since 2017 has resulted in a "total financial impact based on net positions [of] approximately $280 million." In other words, load was over-charged. cdn.misoenergy.org/20250820%20R...
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This could have been stood up through FERC’s OPP. In fact, numerous groups encouraged this in their comments regarding the creation of that office. If this is so important, why didn’t he just do it? He had every opportunity as Chair…
Open Meeting Start Time: 10:01 a.m. Sunshine Notice:https://www.ferc.gov/media/sunshine-notice-july-2025-commission-meeting Video Feed: www.ferc.gov/news-events/...
July 24*, 2025 Open Meeting
Commission meeting are held in Commission Meeting Room (Room 2C) at FERC Headquarters, 888 First St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426 All webcasts are archived for 3 months.
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It is not only a problem of delays related to turbine production, but there are additional delays layered on top of that, including labor shortages and specialized materials delays as well.
sylvain gignac@sylvaingignac.bsky.social · last yr."Turbine manufacturers... Delivery times have doubled in the last year or so; a turbine order placed now won’t be delivered until at least 2028, and the line is getting longer every day. Prices are also spiking — up threefold in the last few years..." www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
🚨 At the @ferc.gov open meeting today Chairman Christie states that he plans to stay at FERC through the July 2025 Open Meeting. #EnergySky
New data from @rockymtninst.bsky.social shows every U.S. state would have lost more money in 2024 if their coal plants had been self-committed 100% of the time. #EnergySky jb-updates-june-2025--sharp-noyce-377408.netlify.app/economic-dis...
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With the Campbell 202c order, DOE is attempting to make RMR-like decisions that are unwarranted. DOE cites NERC’s summer assessment report as support, but even MISO, its market monitor, and at least one of its member states (Wisconsin PUC) think that the report lacks merit.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Energy Imperatives Summit, REALLY could work on increasing the diversity of its speakers…yikes…😬
Reports are out that Chairman Mark Christie will leave #FERC in July and Laura Swett will take his place, if confirmed. #EnergySky
“Is your electric bill too high? Thank LNG exports.” www.utilitydive.com/news/lng-exp...
Is your electric bill too high? Thank LNG exports.
Allowing more gas to be sold overseas gives a windfall to corporate executives who profit from exports as well as from the higher prices they cause here at home by creating scarcity in the market.
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🚨 #FERC REJECTS MISO's flawed ERAS proposal by a 2-1 vote. The Commission wasn't satisfied that the discriminatory proposal was justified and properly tailored. #EnergySky www.sierraclub.org/sites/defaul...
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People say we need less NEPA. I say hogwash; instead, maybe it’s time to consider expanding NEPA to #FERC’s administration of the Federal Power Act.
Oil executives calling Trump’s policies “economic vandalism…”.
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Yesterday, Earthjustice filed comments in FERC’s co-location docket (EL25-49). The demand for co-location is largely driven by developers’ desire for speed to market, but speed to market should not, and cannot, result in sacrificing comprehensive system planning. elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...
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PJM badly needs to tighten up their large load adjustment forecasting process that essentially accepts whatever forecast the Utes allege (who all use wildly different forecasting criteria!). x.com/tkavulla/sta...
Travis Kavulla on X: "Calpine's CEO Andrew Novotny gave a provocative speech this week, pushing back on @ERCOT_ISO & utility forecasts of data center growth. He says to expect 5-10 GWs, not 22 GWs forecast by ERCOT (or >70GWs by utes!) Why the difference?🧵" / X
Calpine's CEO Andrew Novotny gave a provocative speech this week, pushing back on @ERCOT_ISO & utility forecasts of data center growth. He says to expect 5-10 GWs, not 22 GWs forecast by ERCOT (or >70GWs by utes!) Why the difference?🧵
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#FERC Open Meeting Start Time: 10:03 a.m. Sunshine Notice: www.ferc.gov/media/sunshi... Video Feed: www.ferc.gov/news-events/...
Sunshine Notice | April 2025 Commission Meeting
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Hey, Philly area lawyers. Time to retake the Oath. philadelphiabar.org?pg=events&ev...
Law Day of Action
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