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Agencies Suspend Work on State CPP Compliance The Department of Environmental Quality and the Public Service Commission announced they are halting an effort to draft a compliance plan for EPA’s Clean Power Plan as a result of last month’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to stay its implementation. The PSC’s executive director,...
By Amanda Durish Cook MISO could have a limited set of market rules for energy storage as early as 2017, RTO officials told the Market Subcommittee last week. AES’ 20-MW energy storage array in Indianapolis, expected to go into operation in June, will be the first utility-level battery energy storage...
Indianapolis Power & Light’s Harding Street power plant, one of Indiana's largest, will kick its coal habit completely by spring. The company announced a $70 million investment to switch the plant to natural gas in 2014, and the conversion is expected to be complete in April, subject to approval by...
Public Citizen last week called for a House and Senate investigation into the Commercial Energy Working Group, an industry association the watchdog says appears to be violating federal lobbying rules by not disclosing its membership. The energy group operates out of the offices of D.C. law firm Sutherland, Asbill &...
Ramp Rate Approach Would Excuse Nonperformance Penalties WILMINGTON, Del. — PJM presented a first read of a proposed performance assessment hour ramp rate, which would inform when a generator is vulnerable to nonperformance penalties under the new Capacity Performance model. The approach is a short-term solution that PJM hopes to...
NIPSCO Settles for Lower Dollar Amount in Fixed Rate Hike Agreement Northern Indiana Public Service Co. and the Office of Utility Consumer Counselor reached a settlement on a 5.4% rate increase, less than half the 11% boost that the utility sought in its initial filing. The settlement would set the monthly...
Schuette Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to enforce its ruling last year and order EPA to put its Mercury and Air Toxics Standards on hold. Schuette asked the court to issue a stay on the four-year-old mercury rule, which he said it invalidated in...
By Ted Caddell Dynegy and private equity firm Energy Capital Partners announced Thursday they are buying the U.S. fossil fuel generation portfolio of French utility ENGIE, a total of 8,731 MW in PJM, ISO-NE and — in a first for Dynegy — ERCOT. The deal is valued at $3.3 billion.
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