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By Tom Kleckner DENVER — SPP and Peak Reliability extolled their virtues as reliability coordinators (RCs) before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission last week in a bid to provide the reliability function for the Mountain West Transmission Group. Peak Reliability is Mountain West’s current RC. SPP would include the RC...

ACC to Hire Outside Counsel to Represent Commissioner Burns The Corporation Commission voted to hire an outside attorney to represent Commissioner Robert Burns, who is being sued by Arizona Public Service over his effort to investigate the utility’s political spending. Burns issued subpoenas to APS and its parent company, Pinnacle...

ARKANSAS EPA Finalizes State’s Regional Haze Plan EPA has finalized a federal implementation plan for compliance with its Regional Haze Rule for the state, but regulators and at least one generator say they may appeal the decision. The final rule calls for increased emissions control at three coal-fired plants and...

Broderick Resigns from ACC After 1-Year Stint Thomas Broderick, the director of utilities for the Corporation Commission, is leaving after a little more than a year on the job. Broderick provided no reason for his departure and said he was not taking another job. Broderick Broderick was hired last summer...

Report Cites Emissions Drop in Nine-State RGGI A new report by the Acadia Center says that carbon emissions in the nine-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative compact have dropped 37% since the program began in 2008. Part I of group’s “RGGI Status Report” found that emissions have decreased in each of...

By Robert Mullin Critics of CAISO’s most recent draft proposal of principles for governing a Western RTO contend the ISO is moving too quickly to get a plan to California lawmakers before the close of the current legislative session in September. Speaking at a joint state agency workshop in Sacramento...