MAREC Action Blog
PJM Annual Meeting: What Does Industry Success Look Like in 2025?
MAREC Action participated in this session at the PJM Annual Meeting on May 11, 2026. View event details here.
CvilleREA: Recap of the Virginia General Assembly Session
MAREC Action participated in this session at a CvilleREA event on May 11, 2026. Learn more about CvilleREA here.
Virginia Enacts Solar Siting Reform: New Law Brings Common-Sense Standards and Opportunity
Virginia leaders have taken an important step toward strengthening energy affordability, protecting property rights, and expanding responsible solar deployment with the enactment of a new solar siting law. SB 347 and HB 711 were enacted by the Virginia General...
New Jersey Seeking Termination of the State Agreement Approach
TRENTON, N.J.: MAREC Action issued the following statement in response to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities' decision to pursue an agreement with PJM Interconnection to terminate the State Agreement Approach transmission projects: "The New Jersey Board of...
MAREC Action Applauds Enactment of Virginia Solar Siting Standards
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2026 Media Contact: Keely McNeme, keely@renewcomm.com RICHMOND, VA: MAREC Action applauds the Virginia General Assembly and Gov. Spanberger for enacting SB 347 and HB 711 into law today. The legislation modernizes how local...
Governor Spanberger Signs Virginia Energy Storage Bill
RICHMOND, VA: MAREC Action ("Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition") celebrated Governor Spanberger's signing House Bill 895 and Senate Bill 448 yesterday. This legislation is a bipartisan effort to reduce energy price volatility, strengthen grid reliability, and...
Battery Storage Keeps the Lights on, and the Mid-Atlantic Needs to Catch Up
When Winter Storm Fern hit Texas with sub-freezing temperatures in late January, it iced over roads and sent Texans looking for winter coats more often seen in New England. Five years earlier, Winter Storm Uri had left more than 4.5 million Texans without power...
New FEOC Guidance and What it Means for Energy Storage Developers
Last Thursday, the IRS released Notice 2026-15, the first detailed framework explaining how energy storage projects will be evaluated under the new Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) rules. For storage developers, this is an important policy development since the One...
Op-Ed: Let’s Harness Offshore Wind to Keep NJ Toasty in Winter
This op-ed originally appeared in NJ Spotlight News. Winter winds might not evoke a comforting image; in fact, most of us cozy up inside to avoid them. But New Jersey’s future offshore wind projects are key to ensuring our lights and heaters stay on during the winter...
New York Times: Natural Gas Could Get Priority Over Renewable Energy in Largest U.S. Grid
This article originally appeared in The New York Times. “PJM could torpedo existing projects while setting up new projects to fail,” said Evan Vaughan, the executive director at the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition, whose members include developers of wind,...