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By Michael Brooks Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel is recommending that regulators set tougher energy-efficiency targets for the state’s utilities, which it says are winding down their efforts. Utilities have largely met their goals under the 2008 EmPOWER Maryland Energy Efficiency Act, which requires them to reduce electricity usage and...
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an industry group’s appeal that the Environmental Protection Agency’s 75 parts-per-billion ozone rule is too strict. The Utility Air Regulatory Group, made up of mining and generation companies, argued that the EPA’s standard, originally set by the Bush Administration in 2008, restricts industrial...
By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — Natural gas industry representatives reacted coolly last week to the idea of a centralized gas trading platform, suggesting the industry could improve its service to electric generators through smaller, incremental changes. The issue was the subject of a nearly three-hour meeting called by Federal Energy...
By Michael Brooks PJM’s Market Monitor has weighed in on a MISO dispute over whether generation owners can be compensated for their plants’ sunk costs when the plants are prevented from retiring in order to maintain grid reliability. In July, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission found that MISO’s Tariff rules...
By Michael Brooks St. Charles site construction (Source: CPV) Competitive Power Ventures plans to begin major construction next month on its 661-MW combined-cycle plant in Maryland despite an unfavorable ruling last week from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. FERC rejected CPV’s request that it declare the company’s contracts with regulated...
Protesters blocked the entrance to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week, resulting in more than two dozen arrests. (Source: Erik McGregor) By Michael Brooks Cheryl LaFleur has won plaudits for her leadership since taking over as acting chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in November and won 90...
Despite closing its Wisconsin nuclear plant prematurely last year, Dominion Resources wants to keep its options open in Virginia, where it is considering a third unit at its North Anna nuclear plant. But it hasn’t done any analysis to compare the risks of a new plant against an increasing reliance...
Members agreed to consider an easier method for transmission owners to access real-time generator data, an effort to improve situational awareness and emergency response. The Markets and Reliability Committee last week approved a problem statement by AEP’s Dana Horton to ease TO access to real-time MW output and MVar data.
