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After 18 Months of Dramatic Turns, Hydro One-Avista Merger Deal Officially Dead

January 23, 2019 admin avista, Business, deal, ferc, hydro one, idaho, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, merger, Montana, news, Ontario, T&D, terminate, Washington

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:33:47 +0000

Hydro One, Ontario’s largest transmission and distribution provider, and Spokane, Washington–based U.S. utility Avista Corp., have dropped their merger, citing separate denials of the $5.3 billion deal by regulators in Washington and Idaho. The companies said on Jan. 23 they “mutually agreed” to terminate a merger agreement they announced in July 2017. As required by […]

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Former FERC Commissioner McIntyre Dead at 58

January 4, 2019 admin Coal, ferc, Gas, mcintyre, news, Nuclear, Renewables

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 17:55:34 +0000

Kevin McIntyre, who briefly served as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), died Jan. 2 at age 58. He had been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017 and had surgery to remove a tumor. President Trump nominated McIntyre, a Republican, in August 2017 to serve as FERC chairman. He was confirmed by the […]

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Former FERC Commissioner McIntyre Dead at 57

January 3, 2019 admin Coal, ferc, Gas, mcintyre, news, Nuclear, Renewables

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 17:55:34 +0000

Kevin McIntyre, who briefly served as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), died Jan. 2 at age 57. He had been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017 and had surgery to remove a tumor. President Trump nominated McIntyre, a Republican, in August 2017 to serve as FERC chairman. He was confirmed by the […]

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Energy Storage Resources: A Year in Review

January 1, 2019 admin distributed energy, distributed power, Energy Storage, energy storage resources, esrs, ferc, grid, iso, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, news, order no. 841, regulatory, rto

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:59:00 +0000

From both a regulatory and development perspective, 2018 was a significant year for the expansion of energy storage resources (ESRs). From a significant ruling of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

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FERC Follows Up on Tax Reform Response

December 10, 2018 admin adit, Coal, edison electric institute, ferc, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, Nuclear, Renewables, tax act

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:39:34 +0000

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC, the Commission) took several actions in November to address impacts from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Tax Act). FERC had previously issued a Notice of Inquiry seeking comments on how to address the impact of the Tax Act’s reduction in the corporate federal income tax (FIT) rate […]

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Senate Confirms McNamee as FERC Commissioner

December 6, 2018 admin Coal, earthjustice, ferc, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, mcconnell, mcnamee, murkowski, news, Nuclear, renewable energy, Renewables, schumer, Trump

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 19:35:28 +0000

The U.S. Senate on a 50-49 party-line vote December 6 confirmed Bernard McNamee to a seat on the five-member Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission (FERC), despite questions about his independence from the Trump administration and his previous comments in support of a bailout of coal and nuclear U.S. power plants at the expense of renewable […]

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PJM: Fuel Supply Resilience Is Sound—For Now

November 6, 2018 admin DOE, ferc, Fuel, fuel supply, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, pjm, reliability, resilience

Fuel delivery systems in PJM Interconnection’s vast footprint can generally withstand an extended period of stress and remain reliable, though extreme scenarios could impact the grid, the nation’s largest system operator concluded in a high-profile study. PJM, whose system covers 13 states and 65 million people, launched the study this May as the federal government, […]

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Three Newly Approved CIP Reliability Standards for Cybersecurity Will Be Costly

October 25, 2018 admin Business, cip standards, connected plant, costs, Cybersecurity, ferc, iiot, iiot cyber, nerc, news, reliability, supply chain, supply chains, Technology, vendors

Entities with industrial control systems (ICS) associated with bulk electric system (BES) operations must develop and implement plans that include security controls for supply chain management, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ordered in a final rule that formally adopts three new critical infrastructure protection (CIP) reliability standards. FERC on October 18 issued Order No. […]

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Vogtle’s Escalating Costs Concern Lawmakers, Stakeholders

September 20, 2018 admin Business, dalton, ferc, finance, Georgia, Georgia Power, jea, Markets, meag, news, Nuclear, opc, psc, Vogtle, Westinghouse

The Vogtle nuclear expansion’s “ever-escalating” cost is concerning several members of Georgia’s General Assembly, according to a letter sent to partners building the much-delayed project. Twenty lawmakers from both houses of state government—19 Republicans and one Democrat—sent a letter to the board of directors at Georgia Power Co., Oglethorpe Power Co. (OPC), and Municipal Electric […]

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Storage Bringing Change to Energy Markets

August 21, 2018 admin Business, Coal, DOE, Energy Storage, ferc, Gas, Markets, mega symposium, news, Nuclear, Renewables, Research and Development, Solar, Technology, Trump, Wind

Energy industry experts speaking at the MEGA Symposium in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 21 agreed that storage is becoming more important to the overall mix of U.S. power sources. They also said utility-scale storage solutions remain “years away,” even as technology advancements in battery systems occur more rapidly. Panelists at the session entitled “The Transformation […]

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