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Duke Settles with Environmental Groups Duke Energy agreed to quit burning coal at its share of the Wabash River Station power plant in western Indiana by June 2018 under a settlement with environmental and citizens groups that also calls for the company to increase its investments in renewable energy. The...
ICC OKs Ameren Transmission Line The Illinois Commerce Commission approved Ameren Transmission's proposed $1.1 billion 345 kV transmission line across central Illinois. The 380-mile Illinois Rivers line will run from Quincy to Terre Haute, Ind., with a branch line running north to Ipava. Construction is expected to begin by April...
FirstEnergy Corp. has begun sending layoff notices to workers at two Southwestern Pennsylvania coal-fired generating plants even as PJM notified the company it won’t complete transmission upgrades in time for the plants' scheduled Oct. 9 shutdowns. Mitchell Power Plant (Source: FirstEnergy) FirstEnergy expects to lay off about 380 workers as...
FirstEnergy Corp. reached a settlement last week in a controversial bid to shift a coal-fired generator from its unregulated subsidiary to regulated utility Monongahela Power, but a consumer group says the reduced price is still a bad deal for ratepayers. Harrison Power Plant (Source: FirstEnergy) Under the settlement, Mon Power...
Virginia regulators last week approved Dominion Virginia Power’s request to build a 1,358 MW natural gas-fired generator near Lawrenceville in Brunswick County. Dominion said it plans to start construction immediately on the $1.3 billion combined cycle plant, which is expected to go into commercial operation in the summer of 2016.
It was one step forward and one step back for PJM’s offshore wind hopes as federal officials announced the auction of 112,800 acres off Virginia while New Jersey regulators rejected a deal with developers of a proposed Atlantic City wind farm. VA’s Wind Energy Area (Source: BOEM) The Interior Department’s...
The New Jersey legislature voted last week to urge state utility regulators to support development of an offshore transmission “backbone” to deliver wind power and relieve transmission congestion. The Senate approved a resolution supporting the New Jersey Energy Link (SCR 159) 24-12 on Thursday, after an identical measure (ACR 197)...
Integrating offshore wind into PJM will require billions in new transmission spending, either with radial lines from wind farms to shore or something like the Atlantic Wind Connection, a proposed a 300-mile transmission “backbone” off the coast from New Jersey to Virginia. Lines on shore also will have to be...
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) oversees development of the nation’s oil, gas, mineral and renewable energy resources on the Outer Continental Shelf. The agency issued final regulations for offshore wind leasing in April 2009. Since then, it has issued two commercial leases, in 2010 to Cape...
PJM State offshore wind potential chart If the U.S. is to enter the offshore wind industry, it will likely happen first on the Atlantic Coast. The coastline’s shallow waters are similar to those in Europe, which has been building utility-scale offshore wind for more than a decade. And more than...
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