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...

By William Opalka New York regulators say the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s recent order on reliability-must-run agreements “interferes” with state authority as they try to address generation shortages in the state (EL15-37). The New York Public Service Commission last week asked for a rehearing of FERC’s Feb. 19 order, which...

1950: Dunkirk units 1 and 2, each 75-MW simple-steam coal plants, go into operation on Lake Erie, 55 miles southwest of Buffalo, N.Y. 1959-1960: Dunkirk adds units 3 and 4, 185 MW coal-fired, simple-steam units. 1999: NRG Energy acquires Dunkirk from Niagara Mohawk Power. NRG later converts the plant to...

By William Opalka The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week ordered hearing and settlement procedures in a dispute over the costs of keeping NRG Energy’s Dunkirk, N.Y., generating plant online for reliability. At issue are charges National Grid -- whose subsidiary Niagara Mohawk Power serves the region -- proposed adding...

By William Opalka New York utilities have proposed revised transmission upgrades that would add 1,000 MW of capacity to relieve congestion in the Hudson Valley without obtaining new rights of way. The proposals conform to a recent order by the New York Public Service Commission to use existing rights of...

By William Opalka (Click to Zoom) The New York Public Service Commission on Thursday approved a plan by Consolidated Edison of New York to address overloads in Brooklyn and Queens through a $200 million program that will deploy distributed generation and demand-side management (DSM) in order to defer installation of...