Energy Storage Systems Added to Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation’s Service Territory
Posted on Mar 26, 2018 in Energy Storage, Technology | Comments Off on Energy Storage Systems Added to Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation’s Service Territory
Lockheed Martin and Cypress Creek Renewables have commissioned 12 MWh of GridStar Lithium energy storage systems for 12 solar-plus-storage projects that will provide clean electricity to communities served by Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation, a North Carolina cooperative (“Brunswick EMC”). Lockheed Martin’s GridStar technology ensures that this electricity is rapidly...
Cleco to Acquire NRG’s Power Plants Serving 9 Louisiana Coops
Posted on Feb 8, 2018 in Mergers/Acquisitions | Comments Off on Cleco to Acquire NRG’s Power Plants Serving 9 Louisiana Coops
Cleco, an energy service company that operates Cleco Power, a Louisiana electric utility, plans to purchase five of NRG’s power generation plants for $1 billion before the end of 2018. These five power generation plants serve nine electric cooperatives throughout Louisiana and provide more than 3,500 megawatts of power. This proposed acquisition is subject to approval from federal and...
U.S. Senators Oppose Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s Plan to Privatize Federal Transmission Assets
Posted on Jun 8, 2017 in Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on U.S. Senators Oppose Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s Plan to Privatize Federal Transmission Assets
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators asked Energy Secretary Rick Perry to reconsider a plan to auction off U.S. Department of Energy transmission assets used to deliver power from federally owned dams to utilities and rural cooperatives in 34 states on the grounds that privatization of these assets would cause rate increases.
Dairyland Power Cooperative Partners with Minnesota Power on Natural Gas Power Plant Project
Posted on Jun 8, 2017 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Dairyland Power Cooperative Partners with Minnesota Power on Natural Gas Power Plant Project
Dairyland Power Cooperative is partnering with another utility, Minnesota Power, to build a $700 million 550-megawatt natural gas power plant in Superior, Wisconsin. If approved by regulators, construction on the plant will commence in 2020 and plant operation is anticipated to be achieved by 2025.
GRE to Test Carbon Capture Technologies
Posted on May 30, 2017 in Climate Change, Environmental, Innovation/Efficiency, Technology | Comments Off on GRE to Test Carbon Capture Technologies
Great River Energy (GRE), a regional power cooperative, is seeking funding for carbon capture research. The funding would support a project at its Spiritwood Station that seeks to use fly ash to capture carbon dioxide and a project that would inject flue gas into an onsite greenhouse at its Coal Creek Station.
Superior Court Justice Upholds Verdict for Coop
Posted on Apr 19, 2017 in Litigation | Comments Off on Superior Court Justice Upholds Verdict for Coop
A Maine Superior Court Justice upheld a November 2016 jury verdict awarding $13.6 million to Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative. This verdict was the result of a finding that First Wind Holdings LLC and four of its former subsidiaries breached their contractual obligation to negotiate in good faith a contract to sell a section of an electricity transmission line to Eastern Maine...
EPA to Review Power Plant Effluent Rule
Posted on Apr 14, 2017 in Environmental, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on EPA to Review Power Plant Effluent Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it will reconsider a rule that sets federal limits on the amount of toxic metal that may be discharged with power plants’ wastewater and has stayed the compliance dates in the rule. The EPA updated the rule in 2015 because the older version did not adequately address toxic metal discharges by not treating dissolved...
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