Energy & Grid Management
Molly Glick
Molly Glick
Energy Central Team
·Posted in Energy & Grid Management
Mon, May 25

NEWS: The power squeeze has the White House hitting fast forward on energy permitting.

  • On the fusion side: The public comment window for the NRC’s proposed fusion regulation is shutting tomorrow. It’ll likely look much more lax than fission rules (due to the lower risks). Set to drop as early as this fall, the new framework could speed up the fusion rollout…that is, once companies actually clear the commercialization hurdles.

  • On the gas side: FERC has proposed natural gas permitting reforms that would enable some interstate facilities to skip case-by-case approval, offering a quicker pipeline for future pipelines to start flowing.

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