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Judge Rules New York Gas Plant Can Resume Startup Tests

August 15, 2018 admin courts, dec, Gas, judge, Legal & Regulatory, natural gas, New York, news, valley energy center

A New York Supreme Court judge on August 15 said Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) can resume startup tests at its new natural gas-fired power plant in Wawayanda. The decision Wednesday from Judge Roger D. McDonough came one day after CPV sued New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). CPV is seeking an injunction allowing it […]

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States Would Set Rules Under Trump Emissions Plan

August 15, 2018 admin Clean Power Plan, Climate, Coal, CPP, emissions, Gas, GLOBAL WARMING, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, natural gas, news, Nuclear, Obama, regulatory, Renewables, Solar, Trump, Wind

A report from POLITICO says the Trump administration’s rollback of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) would give individual states more leeway to set their own rules governing emissions from power plants. POLITICO, which covers politics and policy both in the U.S. and internationally, said its review of a draft document, and information from a […]

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Group: Indiana Should Reject Vectren Plan for New Gas-Fired Plant

August 14, 2018 admin a.b. brown generating station, Business, Coal, consumers, Gas, indiana, Legal & Regulatory, natural gas, news, regulatory, Renewables, Solar, vectren

An Indiana consumer protection agency has told state regulators they should reject Vectren Corp.’s plan to build a new natural gas-fired power plant in the state. Vectren wants the plant to replace four of the utility’s retiring coal-fired units. Indiana’s Office of Utility Consumer Counselor (OUCC) on August 13 said it completed a five-month legal […]

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Official: FERC, Other Agencies Identifying ‘Critical’ Coal, Nuclear Plants

August 9, 2018 admin Coal, dod, DOE, federal power act, ferc, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, natural gas act, nsc, Nuclear, Renewables, resilience, Sierra Club, Trump

An official with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) told a nuclear industry group this week that the agency and Trump administration officials are trying to identify power plants they consider critical to the nation’s grid. The move is seen as part of the White House effort to prop up the struggling U.S. coal and […]

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New York Denies Air Permit for New Gas-Fired Power Plant

August 7, 2018 admin Business, competitive power ventures, dec, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, natural gas, New York, news, Nuclear, regulatory, valley energy center

A natural gas-fired power plant in New York state that planned to ramp up to full operations this month has been denied an air quality permit from state officials. Competitive Power Ventures’ (CPV’s) Valley Energy Center in Wawayanda, located in Orange County north of New York City, is in the final testing and commissioning phase, […]

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An 865-MW Georgia Power Coal Plant Is Showing Distress

August 6, 2018 admin Business, Coal, Georgia Power, Legal & Regulatory, news, nextera, plant hammond, Southern Co., Vogtle

The future of Georgia Power’s 865-MW coal-fired Plant Hammond in Floyd County, Georgia—which recently slashed more than half its workforce—is murky, company officials said August 3. The four-unit facility that began operations in 1954 employed 190 workers in September 2016. Today, according to company officials, the plant only has 41 full-time employees. Georgia Power Regional […]

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EPA Will Not Revisit Obama-Era NAAQS for Ozone

August 2, 2018 admin Business, casc, Coal, courts, D.C. Circuit, Environmental, EPA, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, NAAQS, news, Obama, ozone, Trump

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not intend to revisit national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ozone that the Obama administration issued in 2015, a court filing shows. The agency said in its final status report submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on August 1 that it has reviewed […]

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Natural Gas: Clear Skies, Some Clouds on the Horizon

August 1, 2018 admin Business, Cybersecurity, Donald Trump, federal energy regulatory commission, ferc, future, Gas, gas deliverability, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, natural gas, natural gas pipeline, news, projections, supply chains

Horizontal drilling technology and fracking techniques have created a natural gas revolution in the U.S. The future looks bright for gas-fired power generation but there are three potential storm clouds that

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Losing Regulatory Approval Gamble, AEP Scraps $4.5B Wind Project

July 30, 2018 admin AEP, Arkansas, Business, Legal & Regulatory, Louisiana, news, Oklahoma, ptc, puc, regulatory, stoel rives, tax reform, Wind, wind catcher

American Electric Power (AEP) has abandoned its mammoth $4.5 billion Wind Catcher project, one of its largest planned investments, and a key part of its strategy to tamp down carbon emissions by 2030. Under AEP subsidiary Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO)’s proposed Wind Catcher project, AEP would have acquired a 2-GW wind farm—under construction in […]

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DHS Warns that Russians Hacked Control Rooms

July 24, 2018 admin connected plant, Cybersecurity, DHS, dragonfly, FBI, ICS-CERT, iiot, iiot power, Legal & Regulatory, nccic

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials in a July 24 webinar said that Russian hackers infiltrated a power plant industrial control system (ICS) in an incident that could have caused a blackout last year. However, as an industrial cybersecurity expert pointed out—and a DHS spokesperson confirmed—the impact of the incident may be overstated. The expert and DHS responded to a […]

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