An Illinois appellate court has again reversed the ICC’s approval of Invenergy’s Grain Belt Express transmission line. The ICC had approved the project in 2023 under a provision in the state’s 2021 climate law specifically meant to help the project.

Renewable developer Apex Clean Energy tried a new "radical" approach to siting a wind project in Indiana and engaging residents in a conversation about the trade-offs. The county responded by effectively outlawing wind farms. 1/X subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews… via @EENewsUpdates Apex offered residents unprecedented input on where a wind project fit in the county. They offered a 1% royalty if they built a project and hired a third party facilitator to help build trust. 2/X

Here we go, Illinois Senate on SB 2408… Sen. Hastings, chair Energy and Public Utilities Cmte.: “Our product is one that is renewable, reliable and affordable for all Illinoisans.”

As @pjminterconnect laid out last week, in today's @ferc compliance filing it "proposes to complete all pre-auction activities and open the BRA for the 2022/2023 Delivery Year within six and a half months after the date of the
Commission’s acceptance of PJM’s compliance filing." "If the Commission were to issue its order on the
compliance filing by mid-May, PJM would conduct the delayed 2019 BRA no later than December of this year." #MOPR

And the Illinois House Public Utilities Committee is kicking off a hearing on the @FERC’s #MOPR order re: @pjminterconnect @pjminterconnect’s Stu Bresler up 1st