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Connecticut Gives Go-Ahead for 804-MW Offshore Wind Project

December 6, 2019 admin awea, bridgeport, Business, Connecticut, eversource, Legal & Regulatory, Massachusetts, news, offshore wind, Ørsted, Renewables, united illuminating, vineyard wind, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:51:50 +0000

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Vineyard Wind’s 804-MW Park City project was given the go-ahead by Connecticut officials on Dec. 5, with regulators saying Vineyard’s bid in an offshore wind solicitation was “lower than any other publicly announced offshore wind project in North America.” Vineyard Wind competed against other groups in the bidding, including developers backed by Ørsted and Shell. […]

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EPA Reinterprets ‘Ambient Air,’ Further Tweaks New Source Review

December 5, 2019 admin adjacent, Air pollution, ambient air, Business, clean air act, Coal, courts, DRONES, Environmental, environmental defense fund, EPA, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, major sources, modifications, NAAQS, news, nsr, nsr reform, paper mills, power plants, psd, Security, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:49:52 +0000

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a change to a long-standing policy interpreting “ambient air”—a foundational concept under the Clean Air Act that applies to all types of air pollution, from ground-level ozone, particulate matter, and greenhouse gases. While the agency framed the change as part of a suite of actions to reform New Source […]

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State Regulators Warn of More Delays at Vogtle

November 25, 2019 admin Georgia Power, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, Southern Co., Vogtle

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:33:12 +0000

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A filing by Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) staff and consultants on Nov. 22 said Georgia Power’s expansion of the Vogtle nuclear power plant is falling further behind schedule. The filing Friday came the same day that the utility announced the sixth and last containment ring for the two-unit expansion was set in place. The […]

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Last New York Coal Plant Set to Close

November 21, 2019 admin AES Corp., Business, cayuga, Coal, data hub, empire state data hub, Environmental, Legal & Regulatory, New York, news, niagara county, somerset

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:56:07 +0000

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The last operating coal-fired power plant in New York state could close by mid-February. Somerset Operating Co. on Nov. 15 asked the New York State Public Service Commission to waive the state’s 180-day notice requirement to shutter the 675-MW plant, asking regulators to allow the facility to close as early as Feb. 15, 2020. Somerset […]

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Regulators: Central Station Generation Will Stay Dominant Despite Emerging Tech

November 21, 2019 admin Business, central generation, cloud, Coal, Cybersecurity, digitalization, distributed energy, Energy Storage, ev, ferc, Fuel, Gas, grid edge, interconnections, Legal & Regulatory, naruc, news, Nuclear, order 841, Renewables, Solar, state utility commissions, survey, Technology, transmission

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:39:32 +0000

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A nationwide survey of state utility commissions suggests regulators are increasingly grappling with issues that could “profoundly” alter energy delivery and utility business models. However, over the next decade, they expect central station generation will continue to dominate state portfolios, and utility-scale solar growth will surpass customer-owned photovoltaic (PV). The survey to take the “regulatory […]

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Plan to Build New 1-GW Plant in Rhode Island Officially Dead

November 17, 2019 admin burrillville, Business, clear river energy center, diesel oil, efsb, ferc, Gas, invenergy, iso-ne, Legal & Regulatory, natural gas, news, Rhode Island

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:28:24 +0000

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A project to build a 1-GW gas-fired power plant in Rhode Island has officially ended, after developer Invenergy took no action to appeal the project’s rejection by state regulators, who earlier this year voted unanimously against the plant’s construction. Invenergy had until Nov. 15 to challenge the formal denial of a construction license for the […]

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EPA Proposes Revisions to Two Obama-Era Rules: Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Coal Ash

November 4, 2019 admin Business, ccr, closure deadlines, Coal, coal ash, coal ash impoundments, coal combustion residuals, courts, elg, Environmental, EPA, FGD, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, selenium, steam electric plants, Technology, toxic, Wastewater, Water

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:45:51 +0000

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued long-awaited proposed revisions of two 2015 Obama-era rules that apply to effluent limitations guidelines (ELGs) for steam electric power plants and coal combustion residuals (CCR) management by electric utilities. The agency coordinated the release of the two related revisions, which apply overwhelmingly to coal-fired steam power plants, after […]

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Hydrocarbon Molecules Know No Borders: The U.S.-Mexico Natural Gas Dilemma

November 1, 2019 admin Business, Commentary, Gas, International, latin america, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Mexico, natural gas, obrador, pipelines, regulatory, u.s.

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 05:02:00 +0000

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Natural gas traders once spoke of the North American continent as a potential seamless natural gas trading market, where market synergies could be perfected and hydrocarbon molecules could flow freely to the

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Public vs. Private: The Debate Continues

November 1, 2019 admin Business, California, COLORADO, Commentary, finance, investor-owned utility, iou, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, news, prepa, public power, pueblo, Puerto Rico, san francisco, Santee Cooper

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 05:01:54 +0000

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In the September issue of POWER , I wrote about a public utility (JEA) that is exploring privatization, and in October, I looked at a city (Boulder, Colorado) that is exploring municipalization. While I think

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States to FERC: Promote Market Designs That Recognize State Priorities

October 31, 2019 admin Business, climate change, Coal, courts, DOE, Environmental, federal power act, ferc, Gas, grid resilience, iso-ne, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Markets, mopr, news, Nuclear, nuclear subsidies, NYISO, pjm, recs, Renewables, states, zecs

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:57:18 +0000

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Attorneys general from 11 states ramped up pressure on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to recognize state policy goals as it makes decisions related to market design, siting of new gas pipelines and storage facilities, and grid reliability. The measure is the latest in a string of recent pushes by states to ensure federally […]

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