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Exelon
PJM and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities are in discussions on how the transmission and interconnection facilities planned for the state’s offshore wind aspirations can be put on ice in the wake of all the generation developers pulling out of their projects.
Michelle Bloodworth
More and more, energy policy analysis seems to be based on finding a preferred answer rather than a realistic answer, says America's Power CEO Michelle Bloodworth.
EIA
The U.S. Energy Information Administration is boosting its estimate of national power generation growth to 2.3% this year and 3.0% next year.
Newkirk Electric Associates
The U.S. Department of Energy has ordered the J.H. Campbell Generating Plant to remain available another 90 days, saying its capacity is needed to maintain MISO grid reliability.
MISO
FERC said MISO should spread the costs of keeping a Michigan coal plant running past its retirement date over the RTO’s entire Midwest region.
Grid Strategies
A Grid Strategies report concludes that if the Department of Energy continues to supersede retirement decisions for fossil-fueled power plants, it could cost consumers an extra $3 billion annually in a little more than three years.
Constellation
Three clean energy trade groups asked DOE to reconsider its recent report on resource adequacy, which they contend uses a deterministic approach to stake out a position for not retiring any more power plants in the face of rising electricity demand.
BLM
The Department of the Interior is moving to cancel the Lava Ridge Wind Project, a gigawatt-scale wind farm proposed on thousands of acres of federal land in Idaho.
EIA
Peak electricity demand in the 48 contiguous states set records twice in the last of week of July, reaching 758,053 and 759,180 MW over one-hour periods July 28 and 29.
Consumers Energy
The Michigan coal plant kept online by an emergency order from the U.S. Department of Energy cost $29 million to run in a little over a month.
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