EPA Proposes Carbon Standards for New Power Facilities
Posted on Sep 21, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on EPA Proposes Carbon Standards for New Power Facilities
As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a news release outlining carbon standards for new power facilities. The EPA will consider comments and hold a public hearing before completing the rulemaking process. For more information, click here.
Mitsubishi to Supply Natural Gas Turbines
Posted on Sep 19, 2013 in Project Development | Comments Off on Mitsubishi to Supply Natural Gas Turbines
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative and Mitsubishi have struck a deal for two natural gas turbines to be installed at the coop’s Wildcat Point generation facility in Maryland. The natural gas facility will generate roughly 1,000 MW of electricity and is scheduled for operation in 2017. To learn more about the deal, click here. See the Sutherland Coop Team’s April 24, 2013, post for...
Patronage Capital Returned for First Time
Posted on Sep 19, 2013 in Financing, Patronage Capital | Comments Off on Patronage Capital Returned for First Time
For the first time in its 75-year history, Vermont Electric Cooperative will return $850,000 to members who were with the coop during 1997 and 2012. Previously the coop would reinvest patronage capital in system upgrades or to fill capital requirements for power agreements. Click here for more information.
Louisiana Coops Hit Net Metering Cap
Posted on Sep 19, 2013 in Energy Savings Programs, Project Development, Regulation & Policy, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Louisiana Coops Hit Net Metering Cap
The Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) set a September 30 deadline for retail customers to install generating devices (e.g., solar panels) in order to participate in net metering. The deadline applies only to customers of certain coops who have reached the 0.5% cap set by the Louisiana PSC at which the coops are no longer required to offer net metering. Instead, the coops may...
Alaska Coop Appeals Order to Bury Lines
Posted on Sep 19, 2013 in Grid & Infrastructure, Land Use, Litigation, Project Development, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Alaska Coop Appeals Order to Bury Lines
Matanuska Electric Association (MEA) has filed an appeal of the city of Wasilla’s decision to give MEA a permit to build a 115-kilovolt transmission line only if the coop puts the line underground. The city says that it wants to safeguard Wasilla’s scenery and property values, but MEA has said the requirement to bury the lines could quadruple the cost of the project to $40 million....
Iowa Coops Protest Denial of Aid for Storm Damage
Posted on Sep 19, 2013 in Grid & Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on Iowa Coops Protest Denial of Aid for Storm Damage
Representatives of several Iowa power providers traveled to Washington, D.C., after they learned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) denied disaster aid for coops in Dickinson, Osceola, Lyon, Sioux and O’Brien counties. Three Iowa electric cooperatives and two municipal utilities reported damage to infrastructure after a severe ice storm passed through the Iowa Great Lakes...
G&T Coop to Share Emissions Reduction Technology with Chinese Company
Posted on Sep 19, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Innovation/Efficiency, Technology | Comments Off on G&T Coop to Share Emissions Reduction Technology with Chinese Company
An emissions reduction technology developed by Minnesota-based Great River Energy (GRE) will now have an international impact. GRE has signed a 10-year licensing and technology transfer agreement to make its DryFining™ technology available in China. The DryFining™ technology will be used by Shenzhou Manufacturing Co., which provides coal processing equipment that serves mines and...
Colorado Coops Crippled by Floods
Posted on Sep 17, 2013 in Grid & Infrastructure, Reliability | Comments Off on Colorado Coops Crippled by Floods
Colorado electric coops have not begun calculating the damage to their systems from the recent floods because crews cannot access the damaged areas. The roads – especially bridges – have been so hard hit by rising waters that crews are forced to wait before they can respond and repair. Click here for more.
Alaska Coop Finalizes Financing to Purchase Plant
Posted on Sep 16, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Financing, Legislative & Politics, Project Development, Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on Alaska Coop Finalizes Financing to Purchase Plant
Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) of Fairbanks, Alaska, has finalized financing from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Cooperative Finance Bank to purchase the 50-MW Healy Clean Coal Project from the State of Alaska. The Cooperative Finance Bank will finance the purchase of the plant, which will be renamed “Healy Unit 2,” while the RUS loan will finance new emissions...
White Paper Argues EPA Cannot Limit Power Plant Emissions
Posted on Sep 16, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on White Paper Argues EPA Cannot Limit Power Plant Emissions
Attorneys general from 17 states recently submitted a white paper to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Administrator, arguing that Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act limits the EPA’s authority to develop procedures to guide states in establishing emissions standards for existing power plants. The white paper is in response to an expected revised EPA rule directly capping...
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