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Pressure Mounts as Legislators Try to Save Nuclear Plants

April 11, 2019 admin beaver valley, Business, Davis-Besse, Exelon, Legislative, news, Nuclear, Nuclear plant, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Perry, subsidies, three mile island, tmi

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:28:57 +0000

Time is winding down for lawmakers interested in enacting legislation to save the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear plant. That message was amplified on April 5 when Exelon Corp. filed the federally required Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The PSDAR details plans for TMI Unit 1 after its final […]

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PJM Will Hold Capacity Auction Under Current Rules in August

April 10, 2019 admin bra, Business, capacity auction, carbon pricing, Coal, ferc, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, market reforms, Markets, mopr, news, Nuclear, pjm, Renewables, reserve pricing, rps, states, subsidies

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:52:23 +0000

PJM Interconnection said it will hold its 2022–2023 capacity auction under current market rules on Aug. 14, 2019, though the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has yet to issue a decision on the grid operator’s plan to revamp its Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR). In an April 10 filing, however, PJM asked FERC to clarify that […]

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Subsidies, warning systems needed for El Niño, say climate activists

March 14, 2019 admin Climate, El Niño, Headlines, Latest News Stories, Nation, subsidies

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 21:28:12 +0000

Climate activists have cautioned that El Niño conditions could come more frequently in the coming years

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Courts Back State Flexibility on Choice of Generation

December 3, 2018 admin Coal, Commentary, electric power supply association, Gas, Generation, hughes, hughes v. talen energy, Illinois, MARYLAND, New York, Nuclear, Renewables, second circuit court of appeals, seventh circuit, subsidies, Supreme Court

Power regulation in the U.S. is split between the federal and state levels, with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) having jurisdiction over the wholesale sales of electricity and the states

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DOE Considers Subsidies Modeled on Renewables for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

November 16, 2018 admin Business, DOE, federal financing, news, Nuclear, Renewables, small modular reactors, subsidies, Technology

State-imposed standards and financial incentives such as those used to spur widespread adoption of renewables technologies offer a promising model to address challenges to commercialize small modular reactors (SMRs), says a report by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy. But to make a meaningful impact, nearly $10 billion in incentives will […]

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FERC Nixes PJM’s Fixes for Capacity Market Besieged by Subsidized Resources

July 5, 2018 admin Business, capacity markets, competitive markets, ferc, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, pjm, state, subsidies, zecs

In a 3–2 decision, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected approaches filed by PJM Interconnection to reform its capacity market, whose integrity and effectiveness has been increasingly and “untenably threatened” by state subsidies for preferred generation resources, the federal regulatory body acknowledged. The June 29 order sharply divided the commission, prompting Democrat Commissioners Cheryl LaFleur […]

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