James Downing is a D.C. Correspondent at RTO Insider. He covers a range of topics including energy policy and regulation, climate change, and renewable energy, often focusing on the intersections of government, manufacturing, and logistics. His work has been featured in the Shields Gazette and RTO Insider LLC.
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James Downing's coverage primarily focuses on energy and related legal policy regulation, as well as government announcements. He seems to be interested in developments within power markets, energy policy, transmission planning, reliability, and clean energy initiatives.
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FERC has approved PJM’s Expedited Interconnection Track, a separate “fast lane” for up to 10 interconnection requests.
Blocking new solar and wind development could cost the U.S. an additional $121.2 billion in electricity and natural gas.
By: James Downing
A Grid Strategies report offers 12 different options to assign data centers and other facilities their fair share of transmission costs.
FERC has received more than three dozen proposals to comply with Order 1920's rules on long-term transmission planning and cost allocation.
FERC is poised to take action on an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking focused on data centers that has seen numerous comments.
Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced legislation meant to provide energy projects with more certainty in the permitting process, without favoring any one technology.
By: James Downing
The need to interconnect exponentially growing large loads to the power grid has produced interrelated challenges, ESIG said in a report.
By: James Downing
FERC issued show-cause orders to every jurisdictional ISO and RTO, directing changes to how their rules interconnect a large load.
By: James Downing
Most of the ISO/RTOs have made progress on improving their interconnection queues, Advanced Energy United said.
By: James Downing
U.S. lawmakers advanced to full committee seven bipartisan bills that largely deal with electric demand growth from data centers.
