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EU Mandates Biodiversity Restoration, Setting Up New ‘Green’ Requirements Alongside ‘Clean’ Ones for Power Sector

August 1, 2024 admin Biodiversity, climate change, climate change mitigation, compliance, EU, eurelectric, full coverage, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, news, Policy, power, power sector, regulatory, Renewables, sustainability, trends

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:42:10 +0000

This June, the European Council formally adopted a first-of-its-kind regulation that sets out to restore at least 20% of the European Union’s (EU’s) land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of

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Measure Twice, Cut Once—A Roadmap for Enabling VPPs Through Policy and Program Design

March 14, 2024 admin California, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, hybrid power, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Massachusetts, New England, Policy, regulatory, Renewables, sustainability, utilities, virtual power plant, vpps

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:23:30 +0000

Virtual power plants (VPPs), as aggregations of dispatchable distributed energy resources (DERs), can deliver grid services ranging from resource adequacy to reliability at scale—all while making energy more affordable. Yet, […]

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FERC Approves MISO Interconnection Queue Reforms, Rejects Overall Queue Cap

February 2, 2024 admin Commentary, ferc, interconnection, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Markets, MISO, regulatory, Renewables, T&D

Credit to Author: Maxwell Multer| Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:10:29 +0000

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Jan. 19 approved most of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s (MISO) proposed revisions to its Generator Interconnection Procedures (GIP) designed to reduce the submission […]

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Empty Space—Navigating the Void of Pore Space Regulation in Texas

August 2, 2023 admin carbon, carbon capture and sequestration, carbon capture and storage, CCS, climate change, Commentary, Environmental, investment, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, regulatory, texas

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 05:31:39 +0000

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has spurred investment in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a key tool for decarbonization, by significantly increasing the tax credit for permanently sequestering carbon dioxide. […]

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Judge Rules Montana Gas-Fired Plant Can Move Forward, While Landmark Climate Case Begins

June 12, 2023 admin burns & mcdonnell, caterpillar, Climate, Gas, judge, lawsuit, Legal, Legislative, Montana, natural gas, news, northwestern energy, power, regulatory, rice, Trial, yellowstone county generation station

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:25:00 +0000

A judge has ruled that construction of natural gas-fired power plant in Montana can resume, two months after the same judge ordered the project halted due to environmental concerns. The […]

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More Than Statistics: Maximizing Value From FERC OE’s Annual Report on Enforcement

April 12, 2023 admin Commentary, enforcement, ferc, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, power, regulatory

Credit to Author: Maxwell Multer| Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:47:26 +0000

Each year, pursuant to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or Commission) Revised Policy Statement on Enforcement, FERC’s Office of Enforcement (OE) publishes “annual statistical reports” summarizing its enforcement activities […]

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FERC: Investors with Utility Board Members are Affiliates

November 2, 2022 admin board of directors, Commentary, ferc, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, regulatory, utilities, utility

Credit to Author: Maxwell Multer| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 21:19:05 +0000

Building on analysis in its February 2021 Public Citizen, Inc. v. Centerpoint Energy, Inc. opinion, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently issued decisions in Evergy Kansas, Inc. (Evergy) and Transalta Energy Marketing (U.S.), Inc. (Transalta) analyzing whether investments that were under 10% of outstanding voting shares, but were paired with appointment of directors that […]

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Balancing the Scales: Disparities in Decommissioning Practices for Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy

October 6, 2022 admin Business, Coal, decommissioning, Environmental, full coverage, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, power, regulatory, remediation, Renewables, Restoration, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Janique Williams| Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:02:05 +0000

There have been historic initiatives within the U.S. to create a sustainable energy economy and to address major environmental concerns created by fossil fuels. The Inflation Reduction Act contains $369 billion in climate and energy provisions, which will have a meaningful impact on climate change. Meanwhile, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law seeks to remedy environmental issues […]

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Balancing the Scales: Disparities in Decommissioning Practices for Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy

October 6, 2022 admin Business, Coal, decommissioning, Environmental, full coverage, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, power, regulatory, remediation, Renewables, Restoration, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Janique Williams| Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:02:05 +0000

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California and Oregon Sail Forward on Offshore Wind

April 1, 2022 admin California, Commentary, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, offshore wind, Oregon, regulatory, stoel rives

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:09:00 +0000

The Biden administration in 2021 announced its goal of developing 30 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030. Deep water off the West Coast means that any wind energy generation on this side of the U.S. must float

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