Entergy has proposed closing one of its largest Arkansas coal plants by 2028 and making modifications to another to comply with EPA’s Regional Haze rule.
A roundup of news from the PJM Planning Committee on Aug. 13, 2015.
Con Ed, Dominion, Duke and Entergy released their second-quarter earnings last week.
Clean energy technologies like wind power are seen as beneficiaries of the Clean Power Plan.
SPP and MISO met last week with their stakeholders to review the first five months of market-to-market operations between the two RTOs.
Cap-and-trade is likely to be a core compliance plan for many states under the Environmental Protection Agency’s final version of the Clean Power Plan.
Nearly two years after joining MISO — and despite a seams spat between the RTO and SPP — Entergy said it is realizing expected cost savings.
This week's state briefs include news on Arkansas, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.
State and RTO officials have had two weeks to digest EPA's final Clean Power Plan and the battle lines — and paths to compliance — are developing.
PJM is concerned that EPA was overly optimistic in its assumptions for how quickly it can add transmission to meet the Clean Power Plan.
