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A report examining the use of the interstate system as a corridor for expansion of the nation’s transmission system concluded it can be done relatively quickly.
The Midwest has become ground zero for the future of transmission policy because of incumbent TOs' stifling control, R Street Institute's Devin Hartman says.
A coalition of attorneys general are demanding that the SEC require companies to disclose their GHG emissions annually, as well as any mitigation plans.
Colorado regulator Megan Gilman worries that the electrification of home heating could leave fewer natural gas customers paying increasingly high bills. But Consolidated Edison executive Marc Huestis told the Energy Bar Association’s annual meeting Wednesday that could be avoided by continued use of natural gas infrastructure for delivering low-carbon fuel.
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has approved a power purchase agreement between Xcel Energy and a 200-MW Iowa wind farm that the utility says is the "last good-priced" wind available in MISO. The commission approved the agreement with NextEra Energy Resources’ Heartland Divide II on March 18 over the objections...
Minnesota has fallen far short of emission reductions established in 2007 by Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, but the chance for bipartisan agreement on a course correction appears slim, according to legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle. Considered historic at the time, the bipartisan "Next Generation Energy Act" requires...
Minnesota regulators this week approved Xcel Energy’s request to operate two of its four coal units on a part-time basis. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission’s order Wednesday allows Xcel to idle its Allen S. King Generating Station and Sherburne County Generating Station Unit 2 during the low-demand spring and fall...
MISO says it will conduct a more thorough study of transmission capacity needs in the Upper Midwest after being approached by the utilities behind the independent CapX2050 planning study. The move means the RTO will expand and protract an existing transmission study it’s carrying out under the 2020 MISO Transmission...