CO2 Emissions Report Released The nine states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative released the “CO2 Emissions from Electricity Generation and Imports in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: 2013 Monitoring Report.” This report is the fifth in a series of annual monitoring reports called for in the 2005 RGGI Memorandum...

By Tom Kleckner Federal regulators’ approval last week of SPP’s request to terminate an interconnection agreement with the proposed Tres Amigas “superstation” won’t hurt plans to unite the three major U.S. grids, developers said (ER15-1797). “In our minds, it’s not that significant,” Tres Amigas CFO Russ Stidolph said in an...

Fuel-Cell Plant Headed to Siting Council A principal in the Middletown company that wants to build a 63.3-MW fuel-cell power plant in Beacon Falls says the project’s plan will be submitted to the Connecticut Siting Council by the end of month. The Beacon Falls Energy Park, which was announced in...

By Tom Kleckner Opponents of Clean Line Energy’s proposed Plains & Eastern transmission line are asking for public hearings and a way to intervene on the project, which would span 720 miles from Oklahoma to Tennessee. A group called BLOCK Plains & Eastern Clean Line: Arkansas and Oklahoma filed petitions...

State Offers Incentives for Electric Vehicles The state is offering a cash rebate of up to $3,000 to buyers of electric cars. An incentive program offers customer rebates and will provide dealers with bonuses for selling electric or hydrogen vehicles. The incentive program is funded by $1 million that the...

By Chris O’Malley Entergy’s Arkansas and Mississippi operating companies will pay $32.6 million to their sister companies under a bandwidth recalculation report approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday (ER07-956). The commission found in a 2005 order that the Entergy system was no longer in rough production cost...

Delmarva Customers May Have to Wait Months for One-Time Credit Exelon has promised $40 million for one-time customer credits in Delaware as part of a settlement to get approval for its takeover of Pepco Holdings Inc., but there is no telling when customers will see the credit. Public Service Commission spokesman...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. ST. LOUIS — Cap-and-trade, a pollution-control concept rejected by Congress five years ago, appears to be coming back to life in the Midwest. Stakeholders from MISO and SPP said Tuesday they are developing the framework for an interstate trading platform to comply with the Environmental Protection...

Little Rock Operations Center Opened to Serve MISO’s Southern Expansion MISO has opened a $22 million regional operations center in Little Rock. The 50,000-square-foot facility works in concert with MISO’s control facilities in Carmel, Ind., and Eagan, Minn. The facility was needed after MISO expanded its territory into the Gulf...

SWEPCO Drops Bid for $116 Million Tx Line Southwestern Electric Power Co. announced that it is dropping plans to construct a $116 million, 60-mile transmission line after SPP decided it wasn’t needed. SPP told SWEPCO that its latest forecasts show lower load growth than previous ones for the area. “Based...