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The U.S. Supreme Court recently accepted a settlement ending the 13-year Rio Grande dispute involving New Mexico, Texas, and the federal government. The conflict followed a series of droughts and lawsuits over the division of Rio Grande water. In 2013, Texas brought the dispute to the U.S. Supreme Court, alleging that New Mexico’s groundwater pumping […]
The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (“PRC”) has advanced extensive revisions to New Mexico’s Community Solar Rule, 17.9.573 NMAC. The amendments would substantially reshape project selection, interconnection review, subscriber protections, low-income participation, consolidated billing, and ongoing compliance obligations for subscriber organizations and qualifying utilities. The revisions follow an extended stakeholder process in PRC Docket No. […]
On June 18, 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued tailored show cause orders under Section 206 of the Federal Power Act to each of the six regional grid operators under its jurisdiction (Regional Transmission Organizations (RTO) or Independent System Operators (ISO)). FERC directed them to justify or reform the rules governing how data […]
The momentum behind geothermal energy development is accelerating on two fronts simultaneously. On June 2, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Geothermal Energy Advancement Act (H.R. 5631), sponsored by Reps. Jeff Hurd (R-Colo.) and Susie Lee (D-Nev.), by voice vote. The package consolidates six separate bills targeting the permitting and regulatory bottlenecks […]