Kent County Gears up for Fight Against Wind Project The Kent County Commission and area residents are preparing for a fight against the proposed Mills Branch Wind Project that would include up to 35 towering turbines on farms in the Eastern Shore county. The Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, the Kent...

By William Opalka New York regulators approved Central Hudson Gas & Electric’s three-year rate plan in an order that also says one demonstration project the company filed in the state’s program to revamp the utility industry shows promise. The New York Public Service Commission on Wednesday approved a joint proposal...

Consolidated Edison of New York and the New York Public Service Commission reached a settlement that keeps distribution rates stable through 2016. The NYPSC on Wednesday approved a plan negotiated over the past five months between its staff, the company and various stakeholders. In January, the company, which serves New...

By William Opalka Central Hudson Gas & Electric’s decision to include distributed energy resource projects in its rate case before New York regulators is providing an early look into a utility’s and stakeholders’ approach to the state’s energy industry overhaul. New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision, as spelled out in...

By William Opalka New York regulators on Wednesday declined for the third time to renegotiate a contract with a financially troubled biomass generation plant, saying that doing so would threaten the integrity of the state’s renewable energy procurement program. In 2007, the 51-MW co-firing Niagara Generating Facility (NiGen) in Niagara...

By William Opalka Efforts to keep the Ginna nuclear plant operating has spurred a turf war between federal and state regulators who are conducting independent reviews. The New York Public Service Commission asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday for a rehearing of FERC’s April ruling that rejected the...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. GROTON, Conn. — States and federal regulators need to keep consumers in mind when picking jurisdictional fights over control of the electric industry, Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Tony Clark said last week. Clark “We can’t have a war between FERC and the states on some of...

By William Opalka ALBANY, N.Y. — Four former energy regulators who were in the middle of many of  the electric industry’s watershed events of the past two decades reminisced — and expressed regrets for paths not chosen — at the Independent Power Producers of New York spring conference Wednesday. From...

By William Opalka The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday rejected the rate schedule proposed for a struggling nuclear power plant needed for reliability in western New York and ordered hearing and settlement proceedings (ER15-1047). The commission approved only part of the reliability support services agreement for the R.E. Ginna...

By William Opalka Opponents of a financial lifeline for the R.E. Ginna nuclear plant were rejected Monday in their bid for more time to  prepare their challenges. Environmentalists and industrial consumers contended the current schedule will deny ratepayers due process in a case that could cost them $175 million. The...