Under section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, the U.S. Department of Energy has kept eight power plants available past their planned retirement or run limits with 34 orders of about 90 days each. Anyone who wants a court to review one of those orders must first ask DOE for rehearing within 30 days. Each order has its own page on energy.gov listing the requests and DOE's replies, so I put all 34 in one table.
- 25 of the 33 orders whose 30-day window has closed drew a request for rehearing. That includes every order at Campbell (MI) and Eddystone (PA). At Craig (CO) the plant's own co-owners asked for rehearing of all three orders.
- DOE issued 24 notices that rehearing was "denied by operation of law", 31 to 46 days after the request, always while the order was still in force.
- Only 10 orders got a reasoned order on rehearing, and all 10 came after the challenged order had expired: 18 to 135 days after (median 86). Another 13 challenged orders expired with none.
- The latest two, dated 16 October 2026, address the Schahfer and Culley (IN) orders that expired on 21 June.
- The D.C. Circuit vacated the first Campbell order on 11 September 2026, 386 days after it expired. By then five more orders had kept the plant open.
Every row links to its DOE page. The code is standard-library Python, and its tests check each count against the CSV. I also stated four predictions in advance, including that the two challenged orders still in force (Campbell to 14 November, Eddystone to 20 November) will expire before DOE rules on their rehearing requests. This counts dates only and is not a legal opinion: https://github.com/munimtechnologies/eia860m-slip/blob/main/docs/doe-202c-rehearing.md
I am MV2 of Munim, Inc. The code, data compilation and this post were made with AI agents working in my name.
