Lawsuit Filed Against New Mexico Coop
Posted on Nov 29, 2012 in Land Use, Legislative & Politics | Comments Off on Lawsuit Filed Against New Mexico Coop
The Jicarilla Apache Nation filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming eminent domain rights over a portion of the Northern Rio Arriba Electric Cooperative’s (NORA) electric system that runs across tribal land. NORA responded to the complaint claiming that the Jicarilla Apache Nation lacked jurisdiction and failed to satisfy arbitration procedures in place under the parties’ franchise...
Alaskan Coop to Move Forward with LNG Project
Posted on Nov 29, 2012 in Financing, Legislative & Politics, Project Development | Comments Off on Alaskan Coop to Move Forward with LNG Project
Golden Valley Electric Association plans to move forward with a liquefied natural gas project after the termination of its joint venture with Flint Hills Resources. However, construction of the proposed $200 million plant will largely depend on whether Golden Valley can secure a state grant. The state governor is also considering an alternative plan under which the state would build...
Basin Electric Gears Up for Power Plant Expansion
Posted on Nov 29, 2012 in Permitting, Project Development | Comments Off on Basin Electric Gears Up for Power Plant Expansion
Basin Electric Power Cooperative plans to construct a 90-MW, gas-fired addition to a 45-MW facility currently under construction in western North Dakota. Construction of the expansion project should begin in April 2014 with an operational date of January 2015. While the cost of the project and the number of jobs to be created are yet unknown, the transmission infrastructure is...
CFTC Issues No-Action Relief for Coops
Posted on Nov 29, 2012 in Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on CFTC Issues No-Action Relief for Coops
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Clearing and Risk granted qualifying coops no-action relief from the mandatory clearing requirement for swaps that meet certain conditions as further delineated in the no-action letter. The conditions are similar to those offered in the proposed coop exemption rule issued by the CFTC last summer. The relief is effective until the...
Texas Coop Opposes New Emergency Drought Order
Posted on Nov 28, 2012 in Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on Texas Coop Opposes New Emergency Drought Order
Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC), the nation’s largest electric coop, may be faced with an inadequate water supply after the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) decided last week to approve a new drought emergency order. The new emergency order reduces the amount of water required to be in certain reservoir lakes used by PEC to cool its generators. Before the new emergency...
Oklahoma, Kansas Face Power Line Shortage During Oil and Gas Boom
Posted on Nov 27, 2012 in Grid & Infrastructure, Land Use, Project Development | Comments Off on Oklahoma, Kansas Face Power Line Shortage During Oil and Gas Boom
The developers working in the oil and natural gas fields in the Mississippi Lime formation in northwest Oklahoma and western Kansas need electric generators to drill, but the electricity for these generators has proven to be insufficient in parts of the region. These rural areas do not usually have load problems, so new infrastructure needs to be built rapidly, according to Western...
Wolverine and We Energies to Jointly Own Presque Isle Power Plant
Posted on Nov 27, 2012 in Grid & Infrastructure, Project Development, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Wolverine and We Energies to Jointly Own Presque Isle Power Plant
Wolverine Power Cooperative and We Energies will pursue joint ownership of the Presque Isle power plant in Marquette, Michigan. This decision also included the addition of state-of-the-art emission controls at the plant. Wolverine will acquire a minority interest in the facility by funding and constructing the air quality control additions, a job estimated to cost $130 to $140...
House Democrat Calls for Grid Security Legislation
Posted on Nov 26, 2012 in Grid & Infrastructure, Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy, Reliability, Technology | Comments Off on House Democrat Calls for Grid Security Legislation
Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey, a top House Democrat, has called on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Republican chairman, Michigan Representative Fred Upton, to help corral GOP support and pass an electrical grid security bill the pair co-sponsored. Markey says that physical and cyber threats to power infrastructure were increasing and that the Grid Reliability and...
Federal Judge Clears the Way for Alaskan Coal Plant
Posted on Nov 26, 2012 in Climate Change, Environmental, Grid & Infrastructure, Litigation | Comments Off on Federal Judge Clears the Way for Alaskan Coal Plant
A federal judge has approved an agreement among the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the state of Alaska and an Alaskan power company that will allow a coal plant to reopen by 2015. Under the agreement, Golden Valley Electric Association agreed to install the most rigorous emission controls available on coal-fired electric generating units at the Healy Clean Coal Plant at an...
Department of Energy and Western Area Power Administration Issue New Proposals on Hydropower
Posted on Nov 26, 2012 in Environmental, Rates, Regulation & Policy, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Department of Energy and Western Area Power Administration Issue New Proposals on Hydropower
On November 27, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Western Area Power Administration’s joint outreach team laid out a set of proposals in a Federal Register notice that are aimed at reforming Western’s hydropower marketing amid electrical grid upgrades. The DOE and Western say their recommendations would improve Western’s operations and optimize its transmission services but some...
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