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Factor This Policycast: Beyond the Big Beautiful Bill – Building and Financing Clean Energy After a Critical Tax Credit Deadline

Echo Stewart July 16, 2026 No Comments

On the latest episode of the Factor This Policycast, United's Dylan Reed and Monarch Private Capital's Walter L. McLeod and Bryan Didier explore how the advanced energy industry is adapting…

Factor This Policycast: Fixing Generator Interconnection

Echo Stewart July 2, 2026 No Comments

On the second episode of the Factor This Policycast—in partnership with Advanced Energy United—United's Caitlin Marquis and Grid Strategies' Rob Gramlich outline how each major regional transmission organization (RTO) and…

Factor This: FERC Takes Historic Action, Orders Us Grid Operators to ‘Defend or Revise’ Large Load Interconnection Tariffs

Echo Stewart June 18, 2026 No Comments

Factor This reports on the recent show-cause orders from FERC, which direct the six regional grid operators within its jurisdiction to either justify or reform the rules governing how large…

Factor This Policycast: How We Benefit From Transmission Competition

Echo Stewart June 18, 2026 No Comments

In the inaugural episode of the Factor This Policycast—in partnership with Advanced Energy United—United’s Managing Director Caitlin Marquis and Electricity Transmission Competition Coalition’s Paul Cicio discuss how the public benefits from the competitive solicitation process…

Factor This: Stalled Federal Funding is Freeing Up to Aid Homeowners Eyeing Energy Efficiency

Echo Stewart June 1, 2026 No Comments

On an episode of the Factor This podcast, host Paul Gerke dives into the details on billions of dollars of previously frozen home energy efficiency funding that will finally begin…

Factor This: Virginia Greenlights Landmark Grid Reform, Expands Community Solar Program

Echo Stewart April 23, 2026 No Comments

Factor This reports that Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger’s amended version of the Facilitating Access to Surplus Transmission (FAST) Act was accepted by the Commonwealth’s General Assemby, establishing a first-of-its-kind program…

Factor This: Virginia Targets Surplus Interconnection Capacity in First-of-its-Kind Legislation

Echo Stewart March 3, 2026 No Comments

Factor This reports that Virginia lawmakers have passed the Facilitating Access to Surplus Transmission (FAST) Act, groundbreaking legislation that establishes the Commonwealth’s first pilot program to unlock surplus interconnection capacity…

Renewable Energy World: New Illinois Clean Energy Bills Mandate State’s First Storage Procurement, A VPP Program, and More

Eric Gordon October 16, 2024 No Comments

Renewable Energy World reports that two bills, HB5856 and SB3959, are working their way through the Illinois General Assembly. The bills aim to establish Illinois' first energy storage mandate, increase…

Renewable Energy World: Bill Requiring Utilities to Consider Grid Enhancing Technologies in Transmission Planning Signed into California Law

Eric Gordon September 27, 2024 No Comments

Renewable Energy World reports that California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 1006 into law, requiring utilities to evaluate grid enhancing technologies (GETs) as often as every two years in…

Renewable Energy World: Southwest Power Pool Asks FERC to Postpone 2024 Interconnection Requests

Eric Gordon August 27, 2024 No Comments

Renewable Energy World reports that Southwest Power Pool (SPP), one of nation's largest regional transmission organizations, has requested that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) postpone 2024 interconnection requests and…

Renewable Energy World: “It is Unacceptable”: Maryland Legislators React to PJM Price Increases

Eric Gordon August 21, 2024 No Comments

Renewable Energy World reports Maryland State Senator Ron Watson and five state delegates released a joint statement condemning the recent spikes in electricity prices within the PJM territory. The article…

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