By William Opalka The New York Public Service Commission on Thursday approved rules designed to allow low- and moderate-income apartment dwellers to own renewable energy projects (15-E-0082). The program, also known as community distributed generation, is part of New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision initiative to revamp the energy landscape...

Personal finance website WalletHub has released a study that ranks the states and D.C. based on the average monthly cost of energy, with breakdowns by electricity, natural gas, vehicle fuel and home heating oil. D.C. ranked lowest overall, followed by Colorado and Washington state. Connecticut, Wyoming and Massachusetts had the...

By William Opalka The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reaffirmed its authority Monday to regulate New York reliability support services agreements, rejecting a rehearing petition filed by the state Public Service Commission challenging its jurisdiction (ER15-1047). The NYPSC had argued that it had sole jurisdiction over the rates and terms of...

By William Opalka Seven projects proposed by transmission developers for the mid-Hudson region have cleared an initial screening by the staff of the New York Public Service Commission. Those projects scored well enough on staff’s efficiency and environmental ratings to warrant further study, according to an interim report filed on...

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...