Transmission Company GridLiance Adds Two New Board Members
Posted on Feb 8, 2016 in Financing, Grid & Infrastructure, Project Development | Comments Off on Transmission Company GridLiance Adds Two New Board Members
GridLiance Holdco, LP (“GridLiance”), a transmission company that partners with cooperatives and municipal power providers to jointly plan, develop, own and operate transmission assets, has announced that it will appoint two utility industry veterans as new members of its board of directors. Terry Boston and Michael G. Morris, two former utility executives, will join the board...
Great River Energy Announces 2.25-MW Minnesota Solar Project
Posted on Feb 5, 2016 in Environmental, Project Development, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Great River Energy Announces 2.25-MW Minnesota Solar Project
Great River Energy announced its largest solar project yet with the Dickinson Solar Project (“Project”), a 2.25-MW solar array six miles east of Buffalo, Minnesota. The Project will serve customers of Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association and responds to members’ interests in more renewable energy as it will replace electricity now generate by fossil fuels.
Merger in Yellowstone
Posted on Feb 4, 2016 in Mergers/Acquisitions | Comments Off on Merger in Yellowstone
Two Yellowstone area cooperatives are discussing a merger designed to save $4 million per year. The cooperatives—Lower Valley Energy and Fall River Rural Electric—serve a combined 43,000 meters located in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. If projections are correct, the merger will save members an estimated $38 million over 10 years.
Electric Coops Ask Supreme Court to Block Clean Power Plan
Posted on Feb 2, 2016 in Environmental, Regulation & Policy, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Electric Coops Ask Supreme Court to Block Clean Power Plan
Electric cooperatives are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to put the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan on hold until all legal challenges are resolved. The petition comes after a federal appeals court rejected a similar request less than a week earlier.
Mississippi PSC Rejects Coop Associations’ Request to Reconsider Net-Metering Rule
Posted on Feb 1, 2016 in Rates, Regulation & Policy, Renewable Energy, Technology | Comments Off on Mississippi PSC Rejects Coop Associations’ Request to Reconsider Net-Metering Rule
The Mississippi Public Service Commission (PSC) put in place a net-metering rule, which allows customers to use rooftop solar panels to produce power and sell this power to utilities. The Electric Power Associations of Mississippi, Inc. asked the PSC to reconsider the rule, asserting that the PSC does not have the authority to impose this rule. The Commission rejected the Electric...
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