By Kennedy Maize The federal government-owned Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest publicly owned electric generation and transmission enterprise, has been releasing a flurry of announcements about deals to put new, smaller nuclear plants on its generating menu. The deals involve potentially multi-billions of dollars in investments. The announcements include action by the U.S. Nuclear … More Is TVA serious about new, small nukes…or is it just flirting?

By Kennedy Maize The annual United Nations sponsored gigantic gabfest on global warming is peeking above the horizon. The 31st “Conference of the Parties” to the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, aka COP31, is scheduled to kick off in Antalya, Turkey, on November 9 and run through November 20. Ministerial-level pre-COP meetings start today … More The next UN climate change conference is on the way

By Kennedy Maize New controversies have added to the swirl surrounding the nation’s oldest and largest regional independent operator of the high-voltage electric transmission system, the PJM Interconnection. PJM controls high-voltage electric transmission in 13 largely mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia, a total of about 67 million customers. The RTO’s most recent capacity … More FERC slams PJM emergency auction; PJM committee shuts out states