WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSLrpt) -- A report issued by FERC2222.org and cusln.org, titled 'FERC Order 2222 & DER Policy and Implementation Report September 2025' and identified as PNNL-38292, outlines evolving federal and state actions shaping distributed energy resource participation in wholesale electricity markets, while highlighting unresolved coordination challenges among grid operators, utilities, and aggregators. The report tracks a series of actions by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissi  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSLrpt) -- PNNL-34401, Improving the Representation of Hydropower in Production Cost Models, was published in August 2023 as part of the HydroWIRES effort. The report explains that traditional production cost models often represent hydropower too crudely, usually with monthly energy budgets or simplified operating limits. It argues that this can either understate or overstate hydropower's true flexibility, which matters more as grids rely on hydropower to balance wind and s  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSLrpt) -- PNNL-28549, Grid Impacts of Hyperloop Technology in the United States, was published in March 2019 and studied how conceptual Hyperloop systems could affect the electric grid. The report concludes that Hyperloop's pulsing power demand would likely create voltage and frequency disturbances unless compensation equipment or energy storage is added. The study modeled at-scale Hyperloop systems in California, Colorado, Ohio, and San Francisco, using assumed passenger   more

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSLrpt) -- The Makah Tribe, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Spark Northwest, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory issued 'Makah Tribe Strategic Energy Plan' in August 2025, with authors Ben Maxson, Haley Kennard, Ryan Erhart, Laura Nelson, Katie Arkema, Malcolm Moncheur de Rieudotte, Lindsay Sheridan, Amy Solana, Alisha Piazza, Molly Grear, Mia Devine, Eriq Acosta, Sean Esterly, and Trent Dillon, under report number PNNL-38051. The plan says the tribe wants t  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Deployment Office, in 'The National Transmission Planning Study' chapter titled 'Stress Analysis for 2035 Scenarios,' says transmission expansion can materially change how the Western Interconnection performs during extreme heat and drought. The chapter, part of the National Transmission Planning Study led with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is identified in the report as PNN  more